Tweet after tweet after tweet after tweet after tweet after tweet... after tweet after tweet after tweet—the president, if he loves anything at all, loves Twitter.
Donald Trump turned presidential fingers into Twitter fingers again Friday, firing off a string of contentious posts aimed at television hosts, the city of Chicago and the Republican Party's flailing plan to replace Obamacare.
If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Trump, perhaps the most powerful human being on planet Earth, has devolved into waging an all out war against the hosts of the MSNBC morning show Morning Joe. A day after he bullied host Mika Brzezinski on Twitter by calling her crazy and claiming she had cosmetic surgery—drawing nearly universal condemnation from everyone but Fox News ally Sean Hannity—Trump again tweeted insults at the show Friday.
The hosts claimed the president threatened them with a negative story in the conspiracy theory publication The National Enquirer. Trump responded by tweeting: "Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show."
This is but the latest knock-down, drag-out Twitter beef the president has got himself into. Even limiting the list to fights after winning the election, he's tweeted insults at Meryl Streep, Snoop Dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alec Baldwin, the cast of the Broadway hit "Hamilton," Samuel Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and former President Bill Clinton, among others.
Even Republicans lawmakers have said that they're tired of Trump firing off missives on Twitter and apparently the large majority of America agrees. Seventy-one percent of voters think tweeting hurts Trump's agenda, while just 17 percent think he's helping himself by posting on Twitter, a Fox News poll released Thursday found. Just 13 percent of voters overall approve of his Twitter usage, 46 percent disapprove and 39 percent wish the president would be more cautious with what he posts, the poll found.
The Fox News poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, interviewed 1,017 registered voters from June 25 through June 27. As a whole, it found nothing Trump is doing on Twitter is helping him out. Even among Trump's own party, just 21 percent of Republicans approved of the president's Twitter usage, while 59 percent wanted him to be more careful and 18 percent disapproved.
In these divided times, America agrees on one thing: Trump should try putting the phone down.
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