Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:04 pm
Trump’s answer to Hillary’s devastating three-word tweet came in yesterday. Jason Easley opined that Trump’s response was “pathetic” and the Twitterverse seems to agree with that assessment, as retweets and “likes” don’t lie.
As a refresher, here is Trump’s pathetic response:
How long did it take your staff of 823 people to think that up–and where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted? https://t.co/gECLNtQizQ
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016
As it turns out, the Twitterverse is all in Hillary Clinton’s corner this morning. The results are in and Trump managed 140K retweets and 212K likes as of the time I sat down to write this. Hillary’s original masterpiece has earned her 386K retweets and 465K likes – and climbing.
In fact, Hillary’s rhetorical fingerprints are all over her trolling of Trump. The reality show star is just jealous he couldn’t come up with a clever retort.
That’s apparently the best he can do. Of course, Trump doesn’t have much of a staff beyond the stray intern he likes to blame for his frequent twitter mistakes. He is in hock up to his neck to foreign banks and apparently has no money of his own. If he could afford a staff, he might have had a cleverer answer at hand.
If the election were decided on Twitter by a single tweet apiece, it looks like Hillary would win, and with a highly suggestive economy of words.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
