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We all know two wrongs don’t make a proper, however do two rants make a coherent response to your political enemies? That’s what Donald Trump is hoping.
Three days after Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech in Chicago, Trump was nonetheless stewing over stories that he had a public meltdown in response to nighttime 4 of the Democratic conference. So he posted this to his Fact Social account on Sunday night:
Based mostly on this submit, you would possibly assume folks had been primarily mocking Trump for breaking the relationship tenets in The Guidelines by not ready for Fox Information to name him first. In actuality, he received flak for “tweeting via it” by airing hilariously petty gripes likes these all through Thursday’s prime-time DNC programming:
Folks additionally made enjoyable of Trump for audibly mashing his cellphone’s keypad along with his face when he referred to as in to Fox Information after Harris’s speech and for rambling at such size that the anchors needed to reduce him off and finish the interview:
Extremely, Trump’s Fact Social submit didn’t simply fail to precisely summarize why folks had been mocking his post-DNC rant. His tirade additionally included some new and complicated accusations.
He referred to as out “The Faux Information,” and particularly Maureen Dowd, for writing “incorrectly that I used to be making the calls. WRONG!!!” The road in Dowd’s newest New York Instances column reads:
He adopted up the posts with a scream-of-consciousness name to Fox Information, filibustering Bret Baier and Martha McCallum for 10 minutes till Baier abruptly reduce him off to throw to the Greg Gutfeld comedy present.
The purpose of Dowd’s column — titled “Daffy Donald, Turning Pea Inexperienced With Envy” — is that Trump is so jealous of Harris that he’s “unraveling.” However his major gripe is that she described his interview as a “name to Fox Information” reasonably than a “name with Fox Information”?
Trump additionally referred to the columnist as “typically ‘gilted’ Maureen Dowd.” Was he making an attempt to say Dowd is responsible? Gifted? Jilted? Coated in gold? Nobody is aware of!
If solely Fact Social had a operate the place prolonged and incoherent Trump rants had been reduce off by an AI Bret Baier interjecting, “Mr. President, thanks a lot for the time!”
