{"id":45082,"date":"2020-04-30T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45082"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:16:00","slug":"trump-unleashes-a-rage-ego-soaked-twitter-rant-that-utterly-ignores-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45082","title":{"rendered":"Trump Unleashes a Rage & Ego-Soaked Twitter Rant that Utterly Ignores the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that every time Trump does or says something dishonest, ignorant, or just plain preposterous, he manages to compound his rhetorical fiasco with commentaries that only serve to affirm his flaming idiocy. It’s a downward spiral to which Trump is apparently oblivious.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s pitiful and tragic mishandling of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is rife with examples of how he has made things worse by talking (or tweeting) about them. For instance, Trump’s suggestion that ingesting bleach would be an appropriate cure for the virus turned into a multi-day news story as he flagrantly lied about what he said<\/a><\/strong>, that was all on video. It has gotten so bad for Trump that even his allies were embarrassed<\/a><\/strong> by his antics at the Coronavirus Task Force briefings (aka the Trump 2020 Reelection Campaign Infomercials). He was even briefly persuaded to abandon the daily briefings<\/a><\/strong> due his rapidly declining approval ratings.<\/p>\n

However, nothing has been able to dissuade Trump from devoting copious amounts of time to his favorite media platform, Twitter. And on Thursday morning Trump suffered another painful breakdown with a barrage of 49 tweets, all before noon. What was especially notable about this tweetstorm was Trump’s singular fixation on a story from last year: The conviction of his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who he fired for lying.<\/p>\n

There was some news regarding this story related to a few handwritten notes that were released by Attorney General Bill Barr’s blatantly biased Justice Department. The notes themselves contained nothing newsworthy<\/a><\/strong>. They were merely the musings of FBI agents on how best to interrogate Flynn who later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. But there was no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever on the part of the agents. The only purpose Barr might have had to selectively leak this info was to provide chum for the sharks on the right to get hysterical about, and for Trump deflect from his much more serious problems concerning the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Trump took the bait. His Twitter feed was flooded with retweets of bootlicking Republicans, wingnut media shills, random Twitter bots, and notorious Internet conspiracy kooks. Among them were 27 tweets hyping the non-story about Flynn, and just handful of partisans praising Trump’s pitiful pandemic response. But of Trump’s 11 direct tweets, not a single one addressed the coronavirus. There was literally zero out of 49 that had any constructive comment regarding the crisis that has infected more than a million Americans – and killed more than 60,000 – in just two months.<\/p>\n

This is how Trump spends his time. When he isn’t watching Fox News or playing the lead role in his daily reality show style briefing, he embraces his Twitter machine and unloads in a scattershot fashion, hitting none of his intended targets. But he is nothing if not persistent, and tediously repetitive, as demonstrated in this frenzied tweet:<\/p>\n

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We can\u2019t let the Fake News, and their partner, the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, get away with stealing the Election. They tried that in 2016. How did that work out?<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n