The patient is feverish and agitated
Tweeter Donald is being especially disgusting today.
The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
The Trump base is far bigger & stronger than ever before (despite some phony Fake News polling). Look at rallies in Penn, Iowa, Ohio…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
…and West Virginia. The fact is the Fake News Russian collusion story, record Stock Market, border security, military strength, jobs…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
… Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation & so much more have driven the Trump base even closer together. Will never change!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
We know there’s a core of people who love this terrible malevolent fraudulent greedy man. We know that. But it’s a small core and it’s shrinking.
Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO, the Trump base is getting stronger!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
The fascist calls the bulk of the most established US news media “fake.” He’ll be having journalists killed next.
Working hard from New Jersey while White House goes through long planned renovation. Going to New York next week for more meetings.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He told stories about his Vietnam battles and….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
I wish that were true.
…conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
Well, yes, because lying about one’s personal military history isn’t quite the same thing as colluding with a hostile foreign power to steal an election.
I wish you were joking about him having journalists killed…
Of course, he doesn’t need to have them killed; he can just get them killed instead. Same result.
Yeah, I wasn’t. I don’t think it’s likely, but I also don’t think it’s impossible. Putin does, why wouldn’t Trump?
How many times now has he mentioned he’s “working hard”? How many times did Obama have to tweet to tell us he was “working hard”? Maybe because when Obama was working, we could tell.
I have been working hard all day, even on my summer vacation, to get ready for fall classes. There, now I’m keeping up with the President. Just thought you should know.
A minor point, but I predict that by the time Trump returns to Washington it’ll be to the newly
vandalisedrenovated #Fake Goldhouse.Do people think that von Clownstick’s digs at the media have risen (fallen?) to the level of genuinely being stochastic terrorism[0] yet?
It seems odd to me, because while he says a lot of horrible things about “the fake news media”, he rarely seems to be angry about it. Most of the classic examples of stochastic terrorism that I’m aware of rely, in large part, on the instigator being visibly angry, and trying to stir up uncontrollable rage in their audience. von Clownstick, however, mostly has that goofy half-grin on his face as he pokes at the media, as if he thinks he’s engaging in light-hearted joshing, or banter.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
Re #5 and Trump not seeming angry enough for typical stochastic terrorism –
Some of it is live or on TV where his face is visible or tone audible; some of it is on Twitter where it is not. He certainly seems angry on Twitter, and the consistency and venom of it will help the dehumanization of his targets among his followers. (And of course, that this is coming from the President of the United States (!) gives it so much weight among authoritarian types specifically.) When he’s “joked” about being able to murder people in public without repercussions, when he’s offered to pay bills for assault charges, when it’s been that specific that often… that he’s signalling that he’s “joking” doesn’t reduce the effectiveness much, particularly when he’s not capable of conveying actual humor.