Trump's tweets have been really bad this week, even for him
Donald Trump's week on Twitter has been a raging tire fire, even worse than his usual shenanigans.
Now, granted, that's a pretty high bar to clear.
But since coming back from Thanksgiving break, Trump has been spewing toxic sludge in 280 characters or less at an extraordinarily high rate, even for him.
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Indeed, Trump wasn't too stuffed with turkey or overcooked steaks and ketchup to avoid Twitter. After taking it light on Thanksgiving Day, Trump had his own sort of Black Friday and hasn't relented since.
Now, keep in mind that Trump has sent a lot of tweets out in the past few days and these only represent the worst of what he's shared online. In between many these have been two or three more tweets that only reach the "Standard Bananas Trump" level.
But these tweets, these are the cream of a very bad crop, like a rotten egg on top of a poop sundae.
Friday
Trump kicked off his post-Thanksgiving spree by playing the hits; namely, his disdain of the NFL players exhibiting their First Amendment rights.
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After more boilerplate fare (blaming Obama, golf, and terrorism) Trump bookended his day by dropping this nugget.
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Predictably, Trump's narcissistic hubris spurred a lot of mockery and even a response from Timewhich denied all of this. And given that Trump was trailing (and still is) in the reader poll, well, it doesn't help his cause.
Saturday
Saturday had a lot of great college football games, but Trump wasn't watching any of it. Instead, he took more shots at CNN, this time besmirching network on a global scale—just as Russia took steps to label foreign media operations as "foreign agents." That move was spurred by the U.S. government pushing Russia's RT to register as a foreign agent.
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What's more, he seemed perfectly willing to endorse a website called MAGAPill as a reputable news source, something that should tell you all you need to know about where Trump stands on reliable media coverage.
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CNN's PR wing responded with a pretty fire tweet of their own, but things here wouldn't escalate for a few more days.
Sunday
It all started on Sunday when Trump addressed the upcoming U.S. Senate special election in Alabama where Democrat Doug Jones faces off against GOP candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of assault and improper behavior while they were underage.
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Trump already tacitly endorsed Moore in a bizarre appearance on his way out of D.C. for the holiday, but apparently he decided he needed to be more vocal in making sure we all knew who he supported.
Sure, he name-dropped Luther Strange in a subsequent tweet, but Strange lost the primary to Moore and Trump's message here is no different than before.
Monday
As a groggy world finally trudged back to work after the holiday, Trump showed that his weekend action was really just a warm-up for what he had waiting for us.
Remember that Saturday tweet about CNN? Well, he circled back around to it in a bigly way.
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Besides being oddly worded (even for him), this tweet continued to hammer CNN while outlining Fox News as Trump's safe space.
His suggestion of a fake news trophy resulted in -- what else? -- internet jokes! But overlooked is Trump's bizarre use of parentheses, something we'd see throughout following tweets.
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This is pretty tame but I shared it to reinforce my point that in between his really bad tweets, Trump was still up to business as usual.
Tuesday
Trump continued his verbal assault on NFL players' right to free speech by revisiting the anthem protests and continuing to ignore the issue that spawned the protests in the first place.
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He then decided to knock down a Vanity Fair story that suggested Melania was less than thrilled with being First Lady, and threw in more use of parentheses for good measure.
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He then made sure to retweet this FLOTUS tweet of Melania and the kids and Christmas.
Not content to let political rivals get away free of criticism, Trump tweeted a criticism of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, with their names inexplicably in quotation marks, ahead of a planned meeting between the three along with Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
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Well, airing your grievances in public isn't exactly the art of the deal and the pair of Democrats canceled their appearance, which led Trump to throw a barely-contained tantrum of a photo opp with two conspicuous empty chairs where "Chuck and Nancy" should have been.
Trump closed Tuesday with tweets about the stock market and North Korea. But on a day when the New York Timesreported that he was starting to tell people he doubted the veracity of the infamous Access Hollywoodtape and was reportedly embracing the Obama birther conspiracy, what else could we expect but a tweet that cites Fox News, "Crooked Hillary," emails, and the "deep state"?
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It's like Trump Twitter bingo!
Wednesday
This brings us up to Wednesday, where things really went off the rails.
Let's start with Trump's retweets of fake anti-Muslim videos by far-right British politician Jayda Fransen, an action that drew scorn from just about everyone, including the office of British Prime Minister Teresa May (but not Fransen, shockingly).
He then joined his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in delighting in the fact CNN that is boycotting this year's White House Christmas Party, something that seems unbecoming of, well, any rational, well-adjusted adult.
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All of this alone would be a bad day of Twittering for the Commander-in-Chief. But he wasn't done. Oh, no, not at all.
Because then the news of Matt Lauer's firing broke and a man who was both caught on tape advocating sexual assault and had over a dozen women accuse him of sexual harassment and assault decided that throwing stones in his glass house wasn't good enough—so he fired them out of a rocket launcher.
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Throw in another few innocuous (by comparison) tweets, and we're now up to noon ET on Wednesday, with a speech on the tax reform bill still to come as well as hours and hours of daylight left to tweet.
So there's still time to somehow make this whole situation worse and, if ever there was someone we could depend on to do just that, it's Donald Trump with free reign on the internet.
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