{"id":34406,"date":"2017-04-16T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34406"},"modified":"2017-04-16T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:57:31","slug":"trump-was-so-rattled-by-the-tax-day-marches-he-posted-some-dumb-crap-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34406","title":{"rendered":"Trump Was So Rattled By the Tax Day Marches He Posted Some Dumb Crap on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 15, saw <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/nationwide-tax-marches-donald-trump_us_58f22c49e4b0b9e9848c5bb4\" target=\"_blank\">tens of thousands of Americans<\/a><\/strong> taking to the streets in more than 150 cities. And it had nothing to do with it being the deadline to pay their federal income taxes. The occasion was to protest Donald Trump continuing to renege on his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmemo.com\/showusyourtaxes-heres-every-time-donald-trump-has-said-he-would-release-his-tax-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\">repeated promises<\/a><\/strong> to release his tax returns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chicken-don.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Chicken\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34408\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1698269436854511\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>True to form, Trump was noticeably upset by the outpouring of criticism from across a broad spectrum of the public. Not surprisingly, he expressed his dismay in fewer than 140 characters on Twitter. And as usual he made very little sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/853595628655587334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/853597199619543041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, Trump once again demonstrates his grammatical incompetence. We should expect better from a president than <em>&#8220;&#8230;what was <strong>an<\/strong> almost <strong>an<\/strong> impossible thing&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> Especially a president who brags that he <em>&#8220;has the best words.&#8221;<\/em> And despite his ego-driven blindness, his tax returns are not just now being brought up. They have been a continuing issue since his campaign began.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, Trump&#8217;s ignorance of electoral history is appalling, but in line with his ignorance generally. Not only is it not impossible for a Republican to win the Electoral College, every Republican president has done it. And most have done it more easily than Trump. In fact, he lands at 46th out of 58 elections. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/dec\/12\/donald-trump\/donald-trumps-electoral-college-victory-was-not-ma\/\" target=\"_blank\">As PolitiFact notes<\/a><\/strong> in rating his previous bragging false:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Trump\u2019s percentage doesn\u2019t rank near the top. In fact, it ranks near the bottom, belonging somewhere between the lowest one-fourth and the lowest one-fifth of all Electoral College victories in history.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Undeterred by reality, Trump goes on to question whether the protesters were paid to turn out. That would require quite a bankroll considering the massive attendance at these hardly <em>&#8220;small&#8221;<\/em> rallies. The assertion is absurd on its face. However, it isn&#8217;t the first time that Trump has proposed it. He leveled this charge during the campaign and was revealed to have been <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/nov\/17\/blog-posting\/no-someone-wasnt-paid-3500-protest-donald-trump-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">disseminating fake news<\/a><\/strong>. The only <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/donald-trump-campaign-offered-actors-803161\" target=\"_blank\">documented incident<\/a><\/strong> of payments being made to phony rally goers was when Trump himself did it.<\/p>\n<p>In both of these tweets Trump returns to obsessing over an election that he lost by over three million in the popular vote count. That&#8217;s a record he is unlikely to brag about. He still seems to think that the election results have any bearing on the public&#8217;s interest in his tax returns. If anything, the public is more interested now than ever. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/public-splits-trumps-ethics-compliance-quarters-tax-returns\/story?id=44811545\" target=\"_blank\">Polls show<\/a><\/strong> that an overwhelming seventy-four percent of the people want him to release his returns. That includes forty-nine percent of his own supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So contrary to his whining that only the media cares about this issue, it&#8217;s clear that the American people are not going to let it slip away. Whatever he is trying to hide is going to come out one way or another. Whether it be corruption, his true net worth, or unsavory connections to Russia. His impotent excuses for withholding this information will not protect him from his responsibility to the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 15, saw tens of thousands of Americans taking to the streets in more than 150 cities. And it had nothing to do with it being the deadline to pay their federal income taxes. The occasion was to protest Donald Trump continuing to renege on his repeated promises to release his tax returns. 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