Chelsea Clinton lets loose on Twitter
Her mom's devastating defeat, coupled with the rise of Trump, has coaxed out a new Chelsea.
By ANNIE KARNI 02/26/17 07:04 AM EST
Chelsea Clinton has discovered something new since Inauguration Day: a spicy, sarcastic online personality.
In 2016, the uber-careful, wonky-like-her-mother former first daughter spent much of the presidential campaign trying not to make waves online. She tweeted about anodyne issues like elephants and hydration.
“Heartbreaking to see the elephant poaching crisis growing in Angola,” she tweeted last July, days before the Republican National Convention. “Another reason water is vital,” she wrote on Aug. 8, in the heat of the general election, linking to an article about water in Peru.
Her endorsement of H2O was retweeted just 84 times—which, given her more than 1.5 million followers, meant that it was effectively ignored. But Hillary Clinton’s devastating defeat, coupled with the rise of President Donald Trump, has coaxed out a new Chelsea: provocative, punchier, and, for virtually the first time in her life, someone angling for attention in the political fray.
“What happened in Sweden Friday night? Did they catch the Bowling Green Massacre perpetrators?” she tweeted on Feb. 19, taking aim at both the president and his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, for fabricating terrorist attacks. The sarcastic post was retweeted more than 41,000 times.
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