You know what? America deserves this. I don't mean that in a good way.
Lawrence is referring to the Wireless Emergency Alert system, which does indeed allow a sitting president to issue his own nationwide text alerts. It's meant for catastrophic situations, but since Trump is a walking catastrophe already we'll meet that threshold the day he steps into the big oval room.
So what the hell; hook that sucker directly into Donald J. Trump's Twitter account. We genuinely may deserve that, at this point; let every American with a cellphone be instantly alerted when the sitting president doesn't like a photograph a news service just used, or wants to complain about the wording in the latest New York Times piece, or when Roger Stone just called him when he was in the tub with the latest new conspiracy theory from the fever swamps.
Donald Trump could be the first sitting president to let us know what he's eating for lunch. Donald Trump could be the first sitting president to butt-dial the entire nation, from coast to coast. Donald Trump could be the first sitting president to sext all of America at once.
And really, we would deserve that. Why the hell not.