Unless it’s a volume of collected tweets…
Trump says he’s going to “write” a “book.” Uh huh, and I’m going to fly the 6 o’clock plane to Heathrow.
The Woodward book is a Joke – just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2018
That would be laughable even if he did know how to write, because he’s a narcissist who can’t stop bragging, so any book he “wrote” on the subject would be a pack of lies and tedious as well.
During his business career, Trump wrote nearly 20 books, including “The Art of the Deal.” Most of the books had known ghostwriters.
So he didn’t write them. The ghostwriters wrote them.
On Monday, Trump called Woodward “a liar who is like a Dem operative prior to the Midterms” following an appearance by Woodward on NBC’s “Today” show.
During the interview, Woodward, an associate editor at The Washington Post, defended his reporting in light of denials of material in the book attributed to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
“They are not telling the truth,” Woodward said, adding: “These people, these are political statements to protect their jobs, totally understandable.”
It’s understandable, but it doesn’t do much for their reputations.
Many of the comments suggesting possible titles on this story in our local media are very funny. I hope someone collects all the best options.
As the Trumpian tweets apparently do not go through any drafting or editing process, but come straight off the top of Trump’s head so to speak, it is a somewhat diverting exercise to speculate on their status at law. Are they presidential decrees? Proclamations perhaps…?
In the real world, most tweets come out of feathered heads via beaks, often before the tweeter just flies off into the sunset with the rest of its companions, to tweet some more on the morrow. But in Trump’s case presumably, they come out of his fingers and into a computer keyboard: though he may use one of those hand-held devices that takes dictation and converts it to script.
In which case, said device has my sympathy; particularly if, out of habit, Trump holds it in his pussygrabbing hand.
I can imagine situations where things go crazy and spiral out of control very quickly. And tweets come out as squawks.
They have zero legal status. Whenever he’s announced a policy change via tweet, the departments involved have said they have to receive word through official channels before an actual policy change will be made.
It would be interesting to look at, out of the tweets which could reasonably be interpreted as actual policy change declarations, what percentage of those were actually enacted.
You know, if you hated yourself enough to go back through all of his tweets to figure it out.