Ah, Donald J. Trump – presumably our only president whose tweets come directly from his own – NOT SMALL – thumbs, instead of being carefully manufactured into inoffensive, flavorless blocks of word-meat by a team of government employees.
Whether you think his unfiltered tweets are refreshing, dangerous, hilarious or just plain stupid, we can all agree on one thing: they’re iconic. Here are 10 of old Don’s most iconic tweets of all time:
10.
If you have the Google Chrome plugin that displays all of Trump’s tweets in the handwriting of an 8-year-old, you will see what is almost picture-for-picture and word-for-word my own diary entry from a decade earlier. Should I sue for plagiarism?
9.
Ha! I am a big fan of this fun and playful tweet! However, as funny as it is, he does have a point. Why wasn’t Trump cast as the male lead in “A Star is Born” or “Bohemian Rhapsody”? A missed opportunity. Sad!
8.
If you replace some of the words in this tweet, it could pass as an average Stan Twitter tweet: “To Kanye West: NEVER, EVER THREATEN TAYLOR SWIFT AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A FANDOM THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR SHADE. BE CAUTIOUS!”
7.
Mad respect to Don for this one. It takes a big man to restrain from flexing your intellectual prowess on your haters. The fact that he both apologizes to and consoles those low IQ losers and haters shows a keen sense of emotional maturity – all in 140 characters or less!
6.
We love simplicity. I appreciate the interpretive freedom I have with this one. If I contextualize it, I imagine that he is sitting in front of his phone, reading articles about his alleged collusion with Russia, getting angrier and angrier, his face redder and redder (orange-er?), until all he can muster is a hastily written “WITCH HUNT!” Or maybe he was reading a library book about the Salem witch trials and got excited. You don’t really know with this one.
5.
Anything I could say about this tweet would detract from it. Enjoy.
4.
The fact that he’s reduced the issue of the total evaporation of thousands of human beings via nuclear warfare to a button measuring contest? Iconic. Subtweeting North Korean totalitarian leader Kim Jong Un? Iconic.
3.
Non-Americans: ask yourself when your president will have his staff draft up a “Game of Thrones” style poster in order to advertise their future policy plans. The answer is never.
2.
I don’t know what it is about this one. The diction of a 16-year-old? The masterful incorporation of two of his hallmark tweet themes – “Crooked Hillary” and unabashed self-love? The fact that it’s only part two of a three part tweet? Our stable genius king slays the losers and haters once again.
1.
“Covfefe” isn’t even a word and it was plastered all over the Fake News Media™ for days after this masterpiece was tweeted. Not only did he captivate the attention of the world with this prematurely-sent tweet, but he brought about world peace by turning it into a fun game for the whole human race to play:
Icon.
