Trumps Twitter a minute ago:
This is a fast moving diary. You’d think being president is hard at work conducting the affairs of the nation. Other presidents would be studying briefing papers, meeting with people who know more about subjects than they do, etc.
This is Trump’s most recent tweet as of 10:38 his time.
One minutes ago Trump was again on his vendetta against Federal Judge Jackson, and retweeted his own tweet telling her how to run her court:
The previous tweet represented a calming down. Maybe the Valium kicked in momentarily (but not for long). Here is is making a proclamation regarding trade policy with China and other trading partners.
However, a half hour before he was on a reckless ranting tear:
The first reply lays out the reason he is pretending to support Bernie:
A minute before that he was full-bore frothing at the mouth and rhetorically snorting like a pig at the trough trying to rewrite history:
These were the first three replies when I wrote this:
Before that he was ranting about the Roger Stone trial U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson who has taken the extraordinary step of ordering both sides to take part in a telephone hearing today to discuss the status of the case. (He retweeted this again later in the morning.)
Snark Alert: I wonder whether Stone will have to take group showers when he’s incarcerated and how fellow inmates will react to this:
How often do pundits have to say “you just can’t make this (bleep) up about Trump’s tweets?
We have a president whose mornings are spent watching television shows where a group of commentators function as his primary advisors and venting his spleen (or whatever) in tweets that will become part of the historic record of his presidency.
The idiom vent your spleen got its reference from the "spleen", an organ in the body near the stomach. It was believed in European medicine until 19th century from medieval times that the emotion of anger was caused by the spleen which was source of humours. Therefore, anger could be expelled by venting the spleen. Reference
No matter that some of the tweets this morning are precisely the presidential pronouncements — and this is what tweets are — that AG Barr said made it difficult to do his job.
The media must stop calling them mere tweets as this minimizes the import of them. They are proclamations issued by the President of the United States.
They are also diagnostic of an unstable mind, but that is another story.
The Poll:
The definition of snarky is CROTCHETY, SNAPPISH, sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner. I am probably the least objective in rating a diary I write as to how snarky it is. I often limit my snarkiness to manipulating the image I use to illustrate a story. Sometimes, like today, I didn’t intend to get snarky but by the time I got to the end of my story I couldn’t help myself. I needed to vent and what better way than the get snarky. It is personal therapy.
I rate the level of snarkiness from none, 0, which is for a story so serious that it isn’t appropriate to make light of it, to stories that are serious like this one but also beg to have a little nasty sarcasm added to lighten things up.
Sometimes Trump is so off there rails that he deserves full-bore snarkiness. These stories are difficult to write because as funny as I may delude myself into thinking I can be, humor and its cousin satire is damn difficult to pull off. Besides there are so many name writers like Dana Milbank out there who are 100 times more adept at it than I am.
How would you rate the snarky level of this story?