Oh Em Gee! Trump tweets a stupid edited gif that could have even been slightly funny on reddit or tumblr (but not exactly endorse- or reblog-worty) and every newspaper and TV station on the planet makes a story out of it.
Trump showed poor judgement, but somehow we make a still bigger deal out of this than we probably should.
If I were Trump, I would get a cat and tweet cat pictures once a week, and the occasional cocktail recipe, just to keep people on their toes.
Confusion Politics at work.
He could probably use this to bury an executive order or firing of a staffer or something
That appears to be what’s happening in the general case of Trump Says Something Outrageous. It’s wild to watch.
There’s this massive pool of outrage to be drilled and tapped because the dumber parts of the Left and Liberal political groups have been using offense as a weapon and configured themselves for high offendability and heavy tribal signalling.
I’m hoping our Shitposter in Chief is going to exhaust some of the supply.