A busy weekend for POETUS Trump, at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
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October 2015 – thanks Chris Wallace @FoxNewsSunday!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807663477322027008]
(Linked to an interview that Trump had with Wallace back then.)
RT @FoxNewsSunday Sunday– our exclusive interview with President-elect @realDonaldTrump Watch on @FoxNews at 2p/10p ET Check your local listings.
[https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/807655142682230784]
(Retweeted by Trump)
I will be interviewed today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace at 10:00 (Eastern) Network. ENJOY!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807932020236124160, 4:56am]
Will be interviewed on @FoxNews at 10:00 P.M. Enjoy!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808107215492091904, 4:32pm]
I think he wanted us to watch something this weekend.
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On Friday, Trump was on about his cabinet picks.
.@RudyGiuliani, one of the finest people I know and a former GREAT Mayor of N.Y.C., just took himself out of consideration for "State".
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807545243608420352]
And we can all breathe easier. Giuliani was clearly one of Trump's loyalists, but tempermentally he's as far from "diplomat" material as one can imagine.
A few days later:
Whether I choose him or not for "State"- Rex Tillerson, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil, is a world class player and dealmaker. Stay tuned!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807970490635743237]
He is certainly that. Whether that's what we really need as a Secretary of State is another question.
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I have NOTHING to do with The Apprentice except for fact that I conceived it with Mark B & have a big stake in it. Will devote ZERO TIME!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807547249681166336, 3:27am]
Well, and you will have your name in the credits as "Executive Producer." Of course, that can mean as little as "I invested a lot of money in it up front," so you may be in the clear.
Still, doesn't it strike anyone as — well, not normal — to have a reality TV show on the air with the President's name as an executive producer, and with the knowledge that companies are buying commericial time on it, and that a media network (NBC, see below) is paying him to run it?
Three hours later, presumably after a hearty breakfast:
Reports by @CNN that I will be working on The Apprentice during my Presidency, even part time, are ridiculous & untrue – FAKE NEWS!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807588632877998081]
Funny, your spokesperson Kellyanne Conway said that it would be something you would do in your "spare time".¹
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Trump was on a roll blasting Pentagon waste.
A very interesting read. Unfortunately, so much is true.
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807589280071684096]
This was referring to a WaPo article² about a DoD report a year or two ago indicating that $125B could be saved over five years by fixing Pentagon inefficiencies.
So that raises the question of what Trump plans to do about it, even as he promises to throw money at the Pentagon to make our military great (again).
Two days later:
The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808301935728230404]
Well, it should be highly entertaining to watch Trump butt heads with a major defense contractor (Lockheed Martin), the US Air Force, and the Congressfolk who have stuff going on in their district related to the F-35.
That said, Trump is correct that the costs on the program are "out of control." But it's not quite as simple as just stopping it, or saying "Don't spend so much money."
As I said, entertaining and interesting.
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Donald chimed in last evening on the leaked CIA report that Russia tried to throw the election his way by hacking a variety of sources (which included the Republicans), and then leaking material that would be embarrassing to the Dems.
Just watched @NBCNightlyNews – So biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point. Just can't get much worse, although @CNN is right up there!
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808114703922843649]
Which makes his Apprentice deal with NBC all the more interesting.
He then picked up the conversation without a break this morning.
Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to play the Russia/CIA card. It would be called conspiracy theory! Unless you catch "hackers" in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. Why wasn't this brought up before election?
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808299841147248640, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808300706914594816]
1. This from the guy who joked about how Russia probably already had the "missing" 30K emails from Clinton's server.
2. If you pulled the theory from out of your hat, yes, it would be Alex Jones-worthy drivel.⁴ If the CIA were reporting this to the White House and to major Congressional leaders … not so much. Certainly not something to simply dismiss.
3. You know nothing about either hacking or forensic investigations. As far as we know, you haven't attended any briefings on the subject. How do you know it's "very hard"?
4. It was brought up before the election. The White House, bending over backwards to avoid looking like it was cooking the books on the election,³ brought the report to a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders, looking for bipartisan support in publicizing it. Instead, some of the GOPers balked, thought it would call the elections into question, or simply denied that the evidence satisfied them. As a result of your new bestest bud Mitch McConnell's partisanship, it was decided to not go public except in vague statements.
Yeah, I know, nuance and political delicacy and concerns about the greater good are all weird concepts for a Big Boss. You might want to take notes.
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Other tweets: two on attending the Army-Navy Game; a retweet from the Inauguration team; one on how he won the Louisiana Senate race for John Kennedy.
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¹ http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/conway-defends-trump-apprentice/
³ And perhaps a bit overconfident about how the election was going to go.
⁴ See also the theory of how you won the popular vote because of the "millions" of illegal votes for Clinton.
