Trump Takes Back His Twitter Account And All Hell Breaks Loose After 3 Tweets About Dwyane Wade

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:06 pm

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It was Saturday morning and the Trump campaign had once again allowed the candidate access to the Twitter app on his phone. This never goes well, for when Donald Trump gets to be Donald Trump, it offers a stunning glimpse into his rather troubling values.

And so we got the Trump tweet that misspelled NBA star Dwyane Wade’s name while exploiting the tragic shooting of his cousin, in service of nonsensical Trump gloating.

After the misspelled tweet caused outrage, the Trump account tweeted a correctly spelled version and deleted the first. More outrage ensued because hello, the problem is that Trump appears not to care one bit about the actual loss. That is the problem.

Once they sorted this out, the Trump Twitter issued its third try at sounding human, and score!

The first tweet is on the Android, which is Donald Trump – with the misspelled name and exploitation of a tragedy.

Then, on the iPhone, which Dave Robinson explained is likely the campaign tweeting, we get the name spelled properly but still the exploitation of a tragedy.

Robinson’s investigation into the data revealed the tweets from Donald Trump were the angrier and more negative (my italics):

My analysis, shown below, concludes that the Android and iPhone tweets are clearly from different people, posting during different times of day and using hashtags, links, and retweets in distinct ways. What’s more, we can see that the Android tweets are angrier and more negative, while the iPhone tweets tend to be benign announcements and pictures. Overall I’d agree with @tvaziri’s analysis: this lets us tell the difference between the campaign’s tweets (iPhone) and Trump’s own (Android).

And then on the third try, Donald Trump’s campaign finally managed to express sympathy on the iPad.

Lou Bay played a game of guess the authors:

No worries, nation — if elected, Donald Trump will always get three tries to get it right before other nations declare war. There will be plenty of time for the “good people he surrounds himself with” to fix his errors, and then time for others to fix their errors, because as much as Trump brags about hiring good people, his campaign often seems to be staffed by the wife-beating bigot types who wouldn’t be welcome in civilized society.

This is all okay, though, because after all, Trump supporters are quick to say it’s not fair to judge Donald Trump on the things he says. He’s just running for leader of the free world, relax! What could go wrong?

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