Tag: Tweet storm

Lin-Manuel Miranda And Other Celebrities Slam Trump For Twitter Rant About San Juan Mayor

The following article by Yvonne Villareal with the Los Angeles Times was posted on the National Memo website October 1, 2017:

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and other celebrities slammed President Donald Trump on Saturday morning following Trump’s Twitter tirade targeting San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who had criticized what she called the federal government’s unhurried response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Miranda, Lady Gaga and John Legend were among the stars that lashed out at Trump’s string of tweets Saturday that took aim at Cruz,, suggesting she was being “nasty” and displayed “poor leadership.”

Miranda responded with his own series of pointed messages expressing his frustration with the commander in chief — telling Trump he was “going straight to hell.” Continue reading “Lin-Manuel Miranda And Other Celebrities Slam Trump For Twitter Rant About San Juan Mayor”

World leaders call for unity after London attack. Trump tweets the complete opposite.

The following article by Avi Selk was posted on the Washington Post website June 4, 2017:

In the early confusion of Saturday’s attack in London, as police urged people not to spread rumors, those world leaders who did speak out early were largely circumspect. Restrained. Sympathetic.

“My thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter. “Awful news,” wroteCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the same evening, adding, “We’re monitoring the situation.”

And then there was President Trump. Continue reading “World leaders call for unity after London attack. Trump tweets the complete opposite.”

A reporter asked President Trump repeatedly for evidence of wiretapping. He didn’t answer.

The following article by Peter W. Stevenson was posted on the Washington Post website March 10, 2017:

President Trump tweeted almost a week ago that he “just found out” that former president Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election. Continue reading “A reporter asked President Trump repeatedly for evidence of wiretapping. He didn’t answer.”

What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning WIretap Tweets

President Trump’s tweets exemplify a fairly basic but often highly effective rhetorical maneuver—the diversionary reverse accusation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS

The following article by David Remnick and Evan Osnos was psoted on thewebsite March 4, 2017:

Between six and six-thirty this morning, the President of the United States, who had returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, unleashed a series of tweets accusing his predecessor of tapping his phones just before Election Day: “a new low!” “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” Two hours later, he tweeted again, this time about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to leave “The New Celebrity Apprentice”: “Sad end to great show.” Continue reading “What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning WIretap Tweets”