The information is a deluge. It arrives relentlessly in day by day, or hourly, or minutely cycles.
The tweets are even worse. They “begin, and cease, and then again begin,” frothing and vanishing into the twittersphere.
So decelerate this week and take into consideration a few of Trump’s greatest tweets.
Trump wrote, for instance, on January 29, 2024 — early within the 2024 presidential marketing campaign — that Trump, and never then-President Biden, deserved credit score for the current rise in inventory costs: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST JOE BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP . . . .”
Truthful sufficient. Till Trump’s current tariff idiocy cratered the inventory market. On April 30, 2025 — 15 months after the primary tweet and some months into the Trump presidency — the inventory market faltered. Then, after all, Trump was not to blame: “That is Biden’s Inventory Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over till January twentieth . . . . [W]e need to do away with the Biden ‘Overhang.’”
Please be aware two issues. First, the random capitalization is, after all, Trump’s, not mine. I haven’t forgotten what I discovered in elementary college, so I capitalize kind of accurately. Second, Trump routinely takes credit score for all the things good and takes blame for nothing dangerous. These starkly contradictory tweets aren’t uncommon for Trump; they merely reveal undeniably, in his personal phrases, his customary schtick.
What else do Trump’s tweets (or, now, “truths”) present?
On the marketing campaign path, Trump advised us repeatedly that he would finish the battle between Russia and Ukraine on his first day in workplace (if not earlier). Trump was campaigning, after all, so we knew — as Trump later conceded — that he was being a bit of optimistic. Nonetheless, I couldn’t wait to see how Trump’s genius would unwind what appeared to be a thorny scenario.
On April 24 of this 12 months, Trump revealed his technique. He tweeted: “Vladimir, STOP!”
Whoa! If solely I’d considered that! That’s why we elected the man! Gimme a minute to test on how this good new method to negotiations has labored.
I’m simply getting warmed up. Again in his first time period, Trump tweeted: “How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic, of course] my telephones in the course of the very sacred election course of. That is Nixon/Watergate. Dangerous (or sick) man!” This was insane, and the FBI defined on the time that it had no proof to assist the declare.
However perhaps I’m mendacity. So, name my bluff, Trump: You’re now having the FBI examine infinite foolish issues. Instruct the FBI to look into Obama’s wiretaps, dig up proof to assist your accusation, and put the criminals away.
Fats probability.
Most lately, and the occasion that prompted this column, was what Trump posted on Memorial Day. There’s a regulation, 36 U.S.C. Part 116, that “requests” that the president difficulty a proclamation every Memorial Day calling on the folks of america to unite in prayer for everlasting peace. Here, partly, is how the moron-in-chief fulfilled his dedication this 12 months:
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION [sic, of course] PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE, THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY . . . .
Did anybody ever die in protection of this nation and now deserve a second of tribute?
I ought to be used to this by now. Trump habitually makes use of holidays — Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day — to not commemorate spiritual or historic occasions, however as an alternative to tear America aside, usually in all caps.
Trump takes satisfaction in his pronouncements on social media and the variety of folks he can affect with what he says. He’s rumored to write down most of the tweets himself. And the tweets reveal, with out a lot doubt . . . properly, determine for your self.
Aren’t you pleased with having voted for this man?
Mark Herrmann spent 17 years as a associate at a number one worldwide regulation agency and later oversaw litigation, compliance and employment issues at a big worldwide firm. He’s the writer of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law and Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy (affiliate hyperlinks). You possibly can attain him by e mail at [email protected].
