Over the past two and a half years, Donald Trump has carved out a niche for himself as a manic, deranged tweeter the likes of which the Oval Office—nay, the world—has never seen. In times of great stress—the Special Counsel’s investigation, the blue-wave midterms, a Fox News host not sufficiently fellating him—the president has amped up his output, tweeting dozens of times a day. But Sunday may have set a new record when the leader of the free world fired off a whopping 46 messages to the universe, including retweets from random supporters and one from an account called “Trump But About Sharks,” which replaces random words from his tweets “to make them about sharks.”
Most notable, though, was the president’s quoting of pastor/Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress, who made a rather bold impeachment prediction on air:
For those of you keeping up at home, threatening a Civil War is an escalation from Trump’s go-to prediction regarding what will happen to the country if he loses power, which is typically a stock market collapse. Democrats, characteristically, condemned the retweet, but it inspired noteworthy pushback from one Republican corner as well: “I have visited nations ravaged by civil war,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a veteran, tweeted back. “I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant.”
Elsewhere in Sunday’s rage-tweeting, the president asked his followers if Rep. Adam Schiff should be arrested for treason:
Said that he should be allowed to get in a room with the whistle-blower, whose identity is protected by the whistleblower act and whose sources Trump suggested last week should be executed:
Repeated baseless lies about Joe Biden and his latest excuse for asking the president of Ukraine to investigate the former V.P.:
Retweeted @robcoltoff (287 followers) calling an insolent Fox News host, who suggested that maybe it’s not great for the president to court election meddling, a “lying s–t head”:
And wished the ungrateful Jews a Happy New Year:
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