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Zorro

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Tue Aug 18, 2020, 10:30 AM Aug 2020

Trump's unhinged Twitter meltdown shows Michelle Obama drew blood [View all]

President Trump unleashed a torrent of rage tweets about Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention that was spectacularly cringeworthy even by his standards — but it only underscored how effectively the former first lady made the case against him, in ways that are significant but not immediately apparent.

The strength of her scorching indictment of Trump — delivered on Monday night — resides in the fact that everyone, or at least a majority, knows it is true. As Trump’s meltdown shows, his only available response is to swap in an entirely invented tale, one hermetically sealed off from reality in just about every conceivable way.

Her case, boiled down, is that Trump inherited a country that, for all its deep problems and lingering inequalities, was on the mend following another previous crisis. Trump proceeded to utterly wreck the place through his incompetence, malevolence, corruption, and depraved conviction that stoking as much civil conflict and racial incitement as possible helps him.

Trump’s substitute tale, reflected in a series of tweets, runs as follows: Trump only won the White House as a reaction to Barack Obama’s failures — to “the job done by your husband,” as he sneered. Trump then built the “greatest economy” in the known universe, then voluntarily “turned off” that economy in a benevolent and responsible effort to save “millions of lives.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/18/trumps-unhinged-twitter-meltdown-shows-michelle-obama-drew-blood/

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And that was only DAY 1!!!!!!! NoMoreRepugs Aug 2020 #1
👍👍👍 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #2
OT, but Ginger42 Aug 2020 #21
Shelties are wonderful, as are all dogs! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #22
So glad to see that he Scarsdale Aug 2020 #3
It can't help itself Pluvious Aug 2020 #13
Watching TV & golfing are the 2 most important presidential duties he has to perform daily, KS Toronado Aug 2020 #15
Yes, and the golfing Scarsdale Aug 2020 #16
You forgot one Kaiserguy Aug 2020 #20
True that judesedit Aug 2020 #24
Trump cannot handle the TRUTH or any CRITICISM about his job performance.... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2020 #4
Especially coming from a woman, DENVERPOPS Aug 2020 #12
A highly intelligent Scarsdale Aug 2020 #18
If he were truly a man of the Bible he held up frazzled Aug 2020 #5
He didn't hold up a Bible.. agingdem Aug 2020 #6
Here on DU, some were predicting that would be the case. C Moon Aug 2020 #7
I give it even odds Aviation Pro Aug 2020 #8
Sure appears his Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #9
He has Meredith McIver hard at work drafting Melania's rebuttal. Mister Ed Aug 2020 #10
DU already has that meme ready... Pluvious Aug 2020 #14
Good, we want blood. Hypertension. Queeg moments. It only helps us. Auggie Aug 2020 #11
My favorite part was when LoveMyCali Aug 2020 #17
Hoping for him to stroke out by night four. nt Ilsa Aug 2020 #19
Cuckoo Don lives in his own twisted universe DSandra Aug 2020 #23
If he's butt hurt because Michelle Obama took him to the wood shed, sarge43 Aug 2020 #25
Can't wait.... Pachamama Aug 2020 #27
Her speech was a winning pitch thrown right over home plate. Bluepinky Aug 2020 #26
She's too generous. Trump hasn't failed; he has successfully implemented Putin's evil plan. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #28
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