Tweetizen Trump – 2019-03-17 – Weekend Edition

On Friday, March 15th, Donald Trump tweeted …

… A message of “warmest sympathy and best wishes” to the people of New Zealand after a white nationalist lunatic, who cited him as an inspiration, killed 49 people at a Christchurch mosque. Tweet

… A three-part tweet about how the Special Council should never have been appointed because of the “Fake Dossier” and “Crooked Hillary”. Tweet Tweet Tweet

… A Fox-inspired suggestion that Jewish people should leave the “Democrat” party. Tweet

… Thanking those GOP Senators who didn’t vote down his “national emergency” wall declaration, and how the voters back home will love them. Tweet

… Another two-part message sympathizing with New Zealand. Tweet Tweet

… A video of his signing a veto of the “extremely dangerous” bipartisan bill that passed the both houses, revoking his “national emergency” declaration. Tweet

… A message about severe weather in the Nebraska. Tweet

On Saturday, March 16th, Donald Trump tweeted …

… Two videos of Lou Dobbs on Fox News, nattering with people (including those foreign and domestic policy experts, “Diamond and Silk”) about the veto. Tweet Tweet

… Taking credit for the 420-0 House vote for the Mueller Report to be issued publicly (but not credit or blame for Lindsey Graham blocking it in the Senate). Tweet

… Some Fox News talking heads talking about Hillary and Her E-Mails. Still. Tweet

… A video of his vetoing the “national emergency override.” Again. Tweet

… A video of some Fox News talking heads talking about the Mueller Probe being biased and “Did the Clintons escape ‘Justice’?” Tweet

… Thanking a former Border Patrol Chief who went on Fox & Friends. Tweet

… The new Attorney General talking on video at the veto signing. Tweet

… Sheriff Andy Louderback of Texas talking on video at the veto signing. Tweet

… Sheriff Thomas Hodgson of Massachusetts talking on video at the veto signing. Tweet

… A slick White House video purporting to show 247 people sneaking over an existing border fence. Tweet

… An attack on John McCain, who died last August, for his role in the Mueller investigation and in voting down the ACA repeal. Tweet

… Encouraging GM to re-open a plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Tweet

… Bashing Google for “helping China and their military” and for having supported Hillary Clinton. Tweet

… Bashing France for the Paris Environmental Accord and the Yellow Vest protests. “In the meantime, the United has gone to the top of all lists on the Environment.” Tweet

… Quoting a Fox and OANN report that the FBI, DOJ, and CIA were conspiring to spy and take him out back in 2015. Tweet

Today, March 17th, Donald Trump tweeted (so far) …

… A double-tweet complaint about SNL and Late Night Shows bash him alone, and how the FEC and FCC maybe should look into that, and probably it’s collusion with the Democrats and Russia and Fake News. Tweet Tweet

… How CNN was working with Christopher Steele on his “Fake Dossier”. Tweet

… An attack on John McCain (who died last August) regarding the “Fake Dossier”. Again. Tweet

… Happy St Patrick’s Day (with pictures). Tweet

… A three-Tweet round of support for Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson against the forces of Fake News and political correctness. “Be strong & prosper, be weak & die!” Tweet Tweet Tweet

… A video of Sheriff Thomas Hodgson being interviews on Fox News about how cool it was to be there when Trump signed his veto. Tweet

… Urging GM and the UAW to get that Lordstown auto plant back open, what with all the other car companies moving to the US “in droves”. Tweet

… Complaining about Fox News’ weekend anchors and suggesting they and Shepard Smith should be at CNN. Tweet

… Thanking those GOP Senators who didn’t vote down his “national emergency” wall declaration, and how the voters back home will love them. Again. Tweet

… Retweeting a supporter who attacked Meghan McCain for her criticism of Trump’s attacks on Joh McCain. Tweet

… Retweeting a supporter who says NPR admitted that border walls are effective. Tweet

… Retweeting a supporter who blogged about Trump defending Jeanine Pirro. Tweet

… Retweeting that same supporter about how Christopher Steele “admitted” he used information from CNN’s website. Tweet

… Retweeting that same supporter about how “Minnesota Democrats” are planning to “REMOVE” Ilhan Omar from Congress. Tweet

… Retweeting that same supporter about how a “Foreign Government Official Offered Hillary Clinton Campaign Dirt On Trump”. Tweet

… Retweeting a different supporter about Trump defending Jeanine Pirro. Tweet

… Retweeting another supporter with some memes about how the American People Support Trump. Tweet

… Retweeting his 2020 Campaign Manager about how Trump’s popularity is growing in Pennsylvania. Tweet

… Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Again. Tweet

… Retweeting a Fox News “contributor” about how “the chief thug on Mueller’s abusive goon squad” is leaving. Tweet

… Retweeting a supporter who agrees with him about those Fox News anchors he doesn’t like. Tweet

… Retweeting an OANN host about an MS-13 murder. Tweet

… Retweeting the same OANN host about CNN cutting off (though they don’t) someone being interviewed who says that the US government isn’t Islamaphobic and that Trump is beloved in the Muslim world. Tweet

… Retweeting a supporter who says “Russiagate” is actually a plot by the UK. Tweet

… Saying he doesn’t care what happens with that Lordstown auto plant, but someone better re-open it, because he’s not happy. Tweet

The Leader of the Free World, everyone! Please be sure to tip your waitstaff!

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And, no this is still not normal. Except, perhaps, for Donald Trump. I mean — messages of sympathy to countries suffering a tragedy, wishes around a holiday, a statement or two about a policy action … those sorts of things one might expect a president to be tweeting.

Repeated attacks on political opponents (past and present, living and dead), attacks on investigations on him, shout-outs of support to media figures who support him and criticisms of those who don’t, firehose retweeting of supporters (from media figures to random joes who use way too many emojis in their handles) with all manner of fawning complements and vicious defenses … that sort of thing’s not normal. Nor should it be.