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The Hashtags of Wrath
Donald Trump’s infamously thin skin has provided us with un-presidented Twitter moments — let’s remember some of those.
From the moment Donald Trump became the GOP candidate in 2015, a new era in the world’s political governance started: the era of tweetocracy.
A few weeks before the 2016 Election, we discovered (unbeknownst to us at the time) Trump’s proclivity for calling races a tad too early:
We hadn’t discovered yet his passion for Twitter tantrums and just how thin his skin truly was.
None of us could imagine that the social network would become the preferred government communication channel for the president to reflect on missile strikes, threaten potential nuclear war (while flexing the size and power of his “button”), or disparage a Swedish teenager for her fight against climate change.
While there are far too many Trumpian rants to cover them all, his presidency will forever be…
