Day 1,207: Trump tweeted over 100 times Sunday, often about his latest unfounded Obama conspiracy theory; no words for coronavirus victims
The coronavirus is still shredding the U.S. from coast-to-coast. Over 80,000 people in the country have died and nearly 1.4 million have tested positive for the disease. With no end in sight, and testing nowhere near adequate, Donald Trump has basically said, ‘oh well.’ Willing to do anything to win reelection, he has put on a nationwide press to open up, risks be damned.
Sunday, desperate to change the subject from coronavirus, Trump mashed the tweet button well over 100 times, including one promoting his own golf club reopening. In separate tweets he lashed out at networks or members of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, while propping up his favorite right-wing outlets, as usual.
The additional tweets generally ranged from retweeting sycophantic messages from days, weeks, months and even years ago from far-right talking heads and random Twitter users to his latest conspiracy theory involving Barack Obama. This one Trump has unsubtly dubbed “Obamagate,” but is wholly thin on substance.
No one seems to even understand the term, but Trump is shouting that it’s “the biggest political crime in American history, by far!” leading to his followers shouting the same thing. (If it involves Trump’s disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, as some are speculating, it’s important to remember that Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, is unprecedentedly dropping the case anyway.)
That last tweet is so obviously wrong, it’s embarrassing. But it’s clear that Trump is cornered, growing more and more concerned not by deaths from the coronavirus but by plummeting approval numbers. As the election gets closer, these types of tirades meant to deflect and distract will become more prominent and more vicious.
Trump sent dozens and dozens of tweets and retweets Sunday. Many of those were dedicated to his newest conspiracy theory involving Obama, someone that Trump has been deeply envious of for years. Yet not a single one expressed empathy for coronavirus victims or their families.
1,207 days in, 255 to go
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