Just when you think @realDonaldTrump has lost his ability to shock, he outdoes himself. He tweets what he’d call ‘a beauty’ — and most of the media calls a nasty. Everybody goes into spasms of apoplexy, and we are all left still whirring in the Trump outrage news cycle that began in 2015.
Trump himself has taken to complaining about his diminishing impact on Twitter – he cannot set fire to world conversation as easily as he used to. This might explain his risqué tweets this weekend, in which he encouraged famous progressive congresswomen to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.’ He’s pushing the outrage envelope – transgressing the boundaries of polite society in order to make himself the story once again.
Sure enough, the world and his social media feed have called Trump ‘unacceptable’ – as if that matters at all – and people who have expressed sympathy for the president in the past are being asked if they are willing to stand by a president that so flagrantly plays on racist tropes etc.
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