Man, there’s a lot to unpack in the latest Twitter screed that Donald Trump blasted across the internet, and it starts with the fact that not only are there approximately 9,000 more important things for him to be doing than tweeting today, but it’s also his wife’s birthday — so if he’s not busy presidenting, he should be hanging out with her.
That is definitely NOT what he is doing.
No, instead of focusing on a global pandemic, an economic downturn, an unemployment disaster bigger than we’ve seen since the 1930s, or even the birthday of his third wife, Trump is tweeting about Russia, and more specifically about journalists who wrote about Russia getting “Noble” Prizes, and how they should return them, and investigations should be launched, and, well… You read it yourself:
When will all of the “reporters” who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes), be turning back their cherished “Nobles” so that they can be given….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
….to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right. I can give the Committee a very comprehensive list. When will the Noble Committee DEMAND the Prizes back, especially since they were gotten under fraud? The reporters and Lamestream Media knew the truth all along….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
….Lawsuits should be brought against all, including the Fake News Organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice. For all of the great lawyers out there, do we have any takers? When will the Noble Committee Act? Better be fast!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
UPDATE: It appears Trump has deleted all the offending tweets. Here they are in their original glory:
Okay, so first of all, it’s NOBEL, genius. Not “Noble.”
And secondly, no journalists have ever won a Nobel Prize for their reporting on Russia because there is no Nobel Prize for journalism.
This is a terrible injustice, alright, but not the one he thinks it is. The injustice is that we have a president who doesn’t know the difference between a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, can’t spell probably either one, and thinks you can sue a prize-awarding committee or a news outlet for someone getting an award that doesn’t exist.
Obviously when his handlers told him he was making everything worse with his daily press briefings, he sort of lost his mind.
UPDATE TWO: Like his statement about injecting disinfectants, Trump now claims the original tweets were “sarcasm”:
Does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called Noble (not Nobel) Prize is, especially as it pertains to Reporters and Journalists? Noble is defined as, “having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.” Does sarcasm ever work?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
No, Donnie. It doesn’t work when you’re clearly not being sarcastic.
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