Despite "emergency" Trump finds enough "executive time" to post a RW troll's meme

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Trump, like the deplorable whose work he's posting, is first and foremost a troll.

And he has to find something to do between the world's most incompetent press conference and leaving for Mar-a-Lago.

[DemKittyNC]

1. FFS

Is he planning to go to Mar-a-Lago today? Add that to the case against him in court for this BS emergency!

[highplainsdem]

2. Yep, he's leaving in a couple of hours.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Trump became the first president to retweet @CarpeDonktum since James Monroe cast shade....

....regarding the Missouri Compromise of 1819.

[zipplewrath]

4. That was dumb

It wasn't even good editing.

[highplainsdem]

5. Mediaite article on why Trump might have posted this:

https://www.mediaite.com/online/troller-in-chief-trump-mocks-democrats-sotu-reaction-with-everybody-hurts-video/

The video (which you can watch above) depicts dour reactions of Democratic Congressional members (and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)!) during his State of the Union speech and is set to the tune of Everybody Hurts, the R.E.M. single from Automatic for the People which was released in 1992. Given the political leanings of the members of R.E.M., it’s difficult to imagine this video staying up long due to rights issues.

What is really going on here? Why would the President share such a video?

Well, one theory is that the freestyle Rose Garden speech was largely criticized for being disjointed and close to unintelligible. At one point Trump said “You put up a barrier, the people come in and that’s it. They can’t do anything unless they walk left or right and they find an area where there is no barrier and they come into the United States.” That is an exact quote.

Cable news reaction has been pretty predictable, but the celebration and praise one might expect to see on Fox News and from other pro-Trump media outlets has been remarkably muted.

So what better way to change the conversation than to tweet a video designed to mock and ridicule one’s political foes?

President Donald Trump is a divider, not a unifier.