The year 2017 was a good one for Twitter, if you don’t follow Trump, and a bad year for just about everything and everyone else. Fortunately, when Twitter’s good, it’s really good.
The proud, the many, the fired
Top of the pile: Everything Sally Q. Yates has ever tweeted. The former acting attorney general survived just 10 days of the Trump administration. Her ouster in January following her refusal to defend Trump’s Muslim ban remains one of the more dramatic exits. She’s only tweeted thirteen times since joining Twitter in June 2017, but every one has been magic.
In the DOJ department, we’ll give an honorable mention to former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Since his surprise firing, Bharara’s unleashed some salty tweets.
The tweets are coming from inside the White House
In first place, there’s the Trump tweet in which the president—or someone tweeting on his behalf—admitted to knowing that Flynn lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a felony, before firing him.
Recall that it was after firing Flynn that Trump asked former FBI director James Comey to “let this go,” referring to the investigation into Flynn, during an Oval Office meeting.
Trump’s main competition for least advisable tweet of the year is his offspring. We can’t forget Don Jr., took to Twitter to respond to allegations surrounding his ties to Russia—confirming them.
The honorable mentions in this category have to go to Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Their best hits, like President Trump’s tweets, according to Spicer, speak for themselves.
Of course, Spicer’s post-Trump tweets aren’t as deep or reflective as his pre-Trump contributions to Twitter on topics ranging from Dippin’ Dots and microwave bacon to the Kardashians.
Spicer’s successor, Sanders, has been using Twitter somewhat differently, but no more adeptly.
A random string of letters and numbers might have been a better choice than this flagrantly hypocritical hit.