Donald Trump spent Monday pretty much just making an ass of himself on Twitter. After he attempted to intimidate Sally Yates and tweeted numerous lies about the hearing later in the day, one might assume The Donald would take a break. Instead, he took one of those aforementioned lies and blasted it across the top of his Twitter profile.
The header, as you can see, features the whitest room of people you have ever seen all giving a thumbs up and — because he’s a narcissist — one of his own quotes, which is a lie: “Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.”
Naturally, Twitter is having a lot of fun with this:
Never really believed there was collusion between Trump & Russia.. until he just put that twitter header up.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 9, 2017
They’re going to have to rename the Streisand Effect. pic.twitter.com/8PowDCXIaP
— Tom McKay (@thetomzone) May 9, 2017
The “mission accomplished” banner of Twitter headers pic.twitter.com/tSuObDDOSl
— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) May 9, 2017
Wow. Trump’s new header is something else. pic.twitter.com/Ha2OKF41Lj
— CAFE (@cafedotcom) May 9, 2017
Finally saw James Baldwin doc “I am Not Your Negro,” if you are looking for an explanation of Trump’s new header pic.
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) May 9, 2017
“Getting a staffer to Photoshop your tweet denying collusion with Russia into your banner image” is untold levels of Not Mad pic.twitter.com/M2kUZkkG2W
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 9, 2017
Not only did the unshakeable #SallyYates take two sleazy senators to school…her testimony made Trump turn his Twitter page into a SNL skit pic.twitter.com/b2b1hSPVkn
— Mel C #DemForce (@MDemforce) May 9, 2017
Gee, Trump put up an I-didn’t-commit-treason Twitter banner and his entire account exploded.
— Winter Maiden (@Winter_Maiden) May 9, 2017
@Impeach_D_Trump I had to check it out & sure enough, the idiot has blazoned that fallacy across the head of his Twitter page. Desperation ain’t pretty…
— Marcia La Résistance (@MarciaBunney) May 9, 2017
Lol – If Trump has to put that as his fucking Twitter layout – you know somethings up. https://t.co/vTG2gMpP0h
— i heart u (@memattieni) May 9, 2017
The amazing-or not-thing is that this is *not* what Clapper said. The Twitter banner of POTUS is literally (& seriously) a false statement. https://t.co/6ICn3pIVfw
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 9, 2017
I wonder what Twitter thinks about @realDonaldTrump putting its logo in his header pic.twitter.com/bXkMVYYeU0
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) May 9, 2017
Clapper did not in any way, shape or form, confirm that there is “no evidence” of collusion, no matter what The Donald’s Twitter banner says. Clapper explained that he was not aware of any evidence demonstrating collusion, but that he was unaware of the FBI investigation into the administration’s dealings with Russia until Director James Comey announced its existence publicly in March. That’s a far cry from “no evidence.”
The real story — the one Trump doesn’t want you to know — is that Sally Yates confirmed under oath that she warned Donald Trump General Mike Flynn was compromised 18 days before Trump did anything about it.
“We believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russian,” Yates said. “To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians.”
And she’s right.
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