Rethugs, grow a damned spine! Trumps tweets have suddenly grown a lot more dangerous
Trump’s tweets have suddenly grown a lot more dangerous
By Sarah Posner July 5 at 3:53 PM
The Los Angeles Times reports Wednesday morning that foreign policy experts are worried that President Trump could be caught flat-footed at his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg on Friday. Even Trump’s aides acknowledge the president’s unwillingness to read the briefings they have compiled about his cunning Russian counterpart.
As a result, they have opted for their best chance of penetrating the president’s consciousness: “a list of tweet-length sentences that summarize the main points Trump could bring up with Putin.”
The Twitter president, known for favoring the medium as the best way of reaching his base, taunting his adversaries and boosting his self-esteem, is apparently only able to conceptualize the world’s most explosive geopolitical conflicts in 140 characters.
Trump and his allies have long portrayed his Twitter habit as a plus, a way of citizens gaining an unvarnished view into the president’s methods for making America great again. Even when his tweets are ugly or violent or abusive, his aides rationalize his conduct as necessary to defend himself against perceived enemies. When he tweeted nonsense, such as the notorious “covfefe” tweet, his spokesman claimed his jumble of letters had a secret meaning to which a small circle of people were privy.
But the time for rationalizations and jokes should have been over well before Jan. 20. As his presidency enters its sixth month, it has become terrifyingly clear that Trump’s Twitter habit is no longer an “outsider president” curiosity, fodder for Internet memes, or even an occasion for his fellow Republicans to offer tepid critiques of Trump’s lack of dignity. It’s long, long past time for more Republicans to acknowledge that his use of Twitter could well pose a serious danger to the world, and to think seriously about what can be done about it.
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