Politics - News Analysis

Donald Trump’s First Tweets of 2019 Are Here and Boy Are They INSANE

Happy New Year! It’s January 1st, and Donald Trump has issued his first tweets of 2019, and as usual it’s a mixed bag of crazy and questionable sentiments.

Trump’s twitter is a media outlet unto itself, a source of news stories, memes, haters, mockers, fans, devotion, controversy, policy and more. From time to time people pretend at ignoring it or at deeming it beneath America’s attention to obsess over, but like celebrity break-up stories and buddy cop films, the President’s tweets aren’t leaving the American spotlight anytime soon. So his first tweet of the new year is, of course, of interest, be that interest morbid, prurient, or genuine.

Well this year’s first tweet is here, and, given all the above, you may find it rather underwhelming. It’s a book pitch for a Fox News hack.

Yeah, that one was pretty boring.

But don’t fret, the next one was pretty crazy.

Trump issued an all-caps New Year’s Day tweet predicting that 2019 “will be a fantastic year for those not suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.”

Trump, as he did last year, wished a happy New Year to “the haters” and the “fake news media” before saying “enjoy the ride” heading into 2019.

“Just calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country!” Trump wrote in all capital letters.

Then an hour later, just moments ago, a more sedate sentiment.

Twitter had a field day:

Comments

Comments are currently closed.