Amidst the pandemic, President Donald Trump remains laser-focused on — not the pandemic, but his public image. This Sunday afternoon, he rushed to Twitter to try and use a lengthy rant on the platform to convince people that he doesn’t just sit around stewing in angry rants all day. He tweeted critically about a story in The New York Times that insisted that he doesn’t exactly maintain a rigorous work schedule, even amidst the pandemic, although the very fact that on a random Sunday afternoon, as the Coronavirus death toll continues to climb, Trump freely tweets these complaints proves the story’s point that he’s lazily self-obsessed.
Eventually, he even launched into a truly bizarre tirade in which he insisted that reporters who’d gotten Nobel Prizes for their reporting about the Russia scandal should return them. However, he spelled “Nobel” wrong, and also — there are no Nobel Prizes for journalism. First, the paranoid, self-obsessed excuse for a president belted out:
‘The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. I don’t know about that, but I am a hard worker and have probably gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history. The Fake News hates it!’
The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. I don’t know about that, but I am a hard worker and have probably gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history. The Fake News hates it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
That’s just laughable. Is he counting his endless pre-pandemic rallies among his accomplishments? Is he including his endless tweets among those accomplishments too? He’s certainly accomplished more degrading, petty cyberbullying than probably any other president, that’s for sure! Although Trump has plenty of shills around him, note that he didn’t even name any names as those who’ve supposedly described him as the hardest working president in history. Maybe Trump just made it up.
He added another defense of his supposedly rigorous work schedule, claiming that he hasn’t even left the White House in “many months.” That’s not true. Less than two months ago, on March 2, he held a campaign rally in North Carolina. He’s just delusionally spouting off utter nonsense at this point — again.
….schedule and eating habits, written by a third rate reporter who knows nothing about me. I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom. People with me are always stunned. Anything to demean!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
He then added the truly bizarre diatribe about Nobel Prizes and journalism about the Russia investigation. He insisted that the “Noble Committee” must retract their prizes for Russia scandal reporting. No journalist ever received a Nobel Prize for journalism, because there aren’t any.
It’s past time for the invocation of 25th Amendment, which provides the mechanism for the removal of a president if they’re incapacitated and can’t do the job. Check out Twitter’s response below…
