By morning, Twitter had made the tweet only partially accessible: it may be viewed only after clicking through a warning screen -- a warning that Trump is "glorifying violence" -- against Twitter's rules.
The phrase he used was more notoriously used in Miami, in 1967 -- by a racist police chief, to violently put down student protests -- about the Vietnam War. . . [and of course, this is all -- he hopes -- to be used to turn the page, lead the media coverage away from his fecklessly malignant non-responses to the current 100,000 dead -- from an entirely predictable pandemic's path of destruction. . . and yet the death toll is rising, daily].
Indeed -- Trump has, with his purported EO, finally taken on a foe that will "push back". One he needs, desperately -- if he is to have any chance at a social media campaign heading into November.
The moron has burned. . . his only remaining bridge. A bridge not so much for his "safe retreat" -- but his last hope at influencing the over 72 per cent of America not at all enthused by his vitriolic hatred of all things he is uncomfortable with. Oh. . . and I think he is influencing them -- but not quite in the way he might imagine.
That's. . . just as irony would have it.
OTOH, I guess it is catchier than his old line -- from the same Vietnam era: "When some shooting occurs, I'll pretend I have bone spurs. . . ."
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