Trump’s High-Stakes Tweeting.... By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

Trump’s High-Stakes Tweeting
By Victor Davis Hanson| July 2, 2017

Trump’s strongest supporters are sometimes the most anxious critics of his tweeting—not because his is a failing presidency bordering on caricature, but because it is adroitly unwinding the Obama transformation. But why, then, the need to go after failed media has-beens without an audience?

Of course, tweeting commentary and news over the heads of a corrupt Washington media pack is innovative and wise—and to some degree got Trump where he is today by reinventing communications with the public. But burning time ridiculing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s failed “Celebrity Apprentice” gambit or, more recently, the psychodramas and daily inanities of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seems a misspent investment of energy.

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https://amgreatness.com/2017/07/02/trumps-high-stakes-tweeting/

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks for posting. VDH provides the answer to a question I asked yesterday of Trump supporters:

We do not know whether there is a saturation point at which Trump’s base will tire of the occasional ad hominem crude tweets, but so far we clearly have not reached it. Why?

Finally, no one has calibrated quite the nation’s deep antipathy toward the coastal media-university-political-cultural nexus, most specifically its utter hypocrisy. Half the country sees not so much Democrats or progressives, but rather a bankrupt class whose venom for others is used to excuse their own exemptions from the ramifications of their own ideology.

People are tired of the social justice warrior Obama frolicking in Tahiti, the feminist Hillary Clinton excusing four decades of the sexual predations of her husband upon the weak, the supposedly in the know campus bullies picking on the vulnerable while shelling out a quarter-million dollars for a mediocre education; the progressive media decrying inequality and fairness amid face-surgeries, hair plugs, nannies, and prep schools; the Silicon Valley masters of the universe sermonizing on the evils of walls, inequality, and social justice from their gated hideaways, servants, and schemes to monopolize, offshore, outsource, and avoid taxes.

There is a limit to Trump’s crude personal tweets, but apparently no observer has yet calibrated where it is—given the country’s disdain for the media, the progressive hypocritical agenda, and the scatological and obscene rhetoric of Trump’s opposition.

[Rivergirl]

It's really tweeting from the gutter where he and his cabal dwell.

[Sanguine]

Good read.

[HonestJohn]

There is a limit to Trump’s crude personal tweets, but apparently no observer has yet calibrated where it is—given the country’s disdain for the media, the progressive hypocritical agenda, and the scatological and obscene rhetoric of Trump’s opposition.

Is it that the tweets fill a need...

... or create it?

[bigheadfred]

Is it that the tweets fill a need...

... or create it?

I think it fills a need by creating a focal point.

[Rivergirl]

His tweets regarding the latest missile fired by NK are astounding............No one could have  dreamed up his response to this ongoing threat from Un.

[Cripplecreek]

Is it that the tweets fill a need...

... or create it?

The only need filled is Trump's voracious ego at the expense of conservative credibility. After all conservatives ridiculed Obama's "Hashtag diplomacy" a few years ago.

I was accused of wanting to kill babies because I suggested that a call to the British PM might be more effective at saving a sick child than tweeting. Unfortunately a phone call wouldn't result in the instant gratification that Trump so desperately needs.

[Hondo69]

Did Pavlov ring his bell again?

If Trump bashers were dogs we'd see PETA and a half dozen other animal rights groups raising ten kinds of hell.  But since they are only human beings it's simply entertaining.  And I love the smell of burning brain cells in the morning.

[corbe]

[truth_seeker]

I readily confess to borrowing this graphic image

[txradioguy]

I readily confess to borrowing this graphic image

I bet in privtae you'd also confess to wishing Trump wold take a real machine gun go the media too.

Your "Trump can do no wrong" attitude and that tacky graphic exemplify everything that's wrong in America where the voting public in concerned right now.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's really tweeting from the gutter where he and his cabal dwell.

VDH is a very good read, and understands quite a bit about how we got to where we are.  I suggest reading the article.

[XenaLee]

Trump’s High-Stakes Tweeting
By Victor Davis Hanson| July 2, 2017

Trump’s strongest supporters are sometimes the most anxious critics of his tweeting—not because his is a failing presidency bordering on caricature, but because it is adroitly unwinding the Obama transformation. But why, then, the need to go after failed media has-beens without an audience?

Of course, tweeting commentary and news over the heads of a corrupt Washington media pack is innovative and wise—and to some degree got Trump where he is today by reinventing communications with the public. But burning time ridiculing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s failed “Celebrity Apprentice” gambit or, more recently, the psychodramas and daily inanities of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seems a misspent investment of energy.


more
https://amgreatness.com/2017/07/02/trumps-high-stakes-tweeting/

I think most people are probably thinking that the President of the United States has more important things to do and/or to focus on than the lame and juvenile BS he has been responding to via Twitter.   And if he doesn't have more important things to do, then he should have more important things to do.... and perhaps there is something 'else' wrong and going on behind the scenes.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think most people are probably thinking that the President of the United States has more important things to do and/or to focus on than the lame and juvenile BS he has been responding to via Twitter.   And if he doesn't have more important things to do, then he should have more important things to do.... and perhaps there is something 'else' wrong and going on behind the scenes.

I always imagined Presidents sit and ruminate all the time.  The most significant thing I'm seeing now is we actually find out about the ruminations.