Day 218: Trump Contradicts Himself 11 Minutes Apart

Donald Trump says a lot on the Twitter machine. He is basically a broken robot who tweets the same dozen or so things over and over and over. Without fail, virtually every tweet is one of (or a combination of) the following:

1. Bragging about his perceived successes;
2. The issue du jour;
3. #MAGA;
4. JOBS JOBS JOBS;
5. Fake News;
6. How great his team is working together;
7. His meetings schedule;
8. How hard he’s working;
9. Where he’s traveling;
10. Retweeting state-sponsored media in Fox News;
11. Retweeting an alt-right nut who tweeted racist or anti-Semitic memes in the previous 72 hours;
12. Blaming the Democrats for being obstructionists;
13. Pressuring Republicans to fall in line; and
14. The military and veterans.

That’s basically it. Rarely will a tweet deviate from one of those categories. Sometimes, they line up well and Trump doesn’t even see how much one tweet contradicts another.

Take this morning, for example.

First, he tweets this:

This falls squarely within #12 and #13.

Trump then sent a non-sequitur for reasons unknown.

This would fall under categories #5 and #6.

But then, just eleven minutes after his filibuster tweet, Trump sent another:

We’ll ignore the veracity of this tweet for a moment — and also point out it’s just saying words: “border, military, ISIS” without any context for what he thinks he’s done as it relates to any of those things — and note that it falls under #1 (and #14): it’s just Trump bragging.

But it also totally contradicts his initial tweet. How can the administration claim that abolishing the filibuster is needed because few bills can pass with it in place and in his next breath claim that the administration has passed many bills?

There’s no logic on congruity in what Trump says. Sometimes, like today, it plays out more obviously than others.

218 days in, 1244 to go

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