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Donald Trump’s Twitter feed stopped mattering long ago.
Sure, it’s his always-online bully pulpit. He uses it daily to attack enemies and hand down various decrees. But when you strip away all the bluster, Trump is a feckless leader who constantly undermines his own agenda with lies and hatred.
The majority of America sees it at this point (did we ever not?). It’s our national embarrassment.
Every once in a while, though, Trump tweets something so outlandish, so wrong-headed, and so downright nonsensical that it’s impossible to ignore. Sunday, May 5 brought us one such tweet.
The Kentuky Derby decision was not a good one. It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby – not even close!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2019
Yes, he misspelled the “Kentucky” in Kentucky Derby. And yes, he weirdly called the winning horse Country Home’s surprise upset victory — the product of a post-race disqualification — an example of “political correctness.” (NPR’s Linda Holmes had a thoughtful explanation for that.)
There’s also a magical self-own here in Trump stridently declaring that “The best horse did NOT win.” His legions of critics have been shouting words to that effect since Nov. 2016.
This is like the perfect storm of Donald Trump tweets, a blast of text that so perfectly nails the relentless idiocy of this president and his ideas, it may as well have come from a parody account. (I double-checked. It did not.)
It doesn’t even really matter how people reacted. We’re more than two years into this thing and all the good jokes have been made. But watching the people of Twitter grapple with this unhinged rant’s intrusion into their Sunday morning is the only real reward we get for tuning into Trump Twitter.
So let’s have at it.
Trumpism in a nutshell: Kentucky voted overwhelmingly for Trump and he can’t even spell the state right.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 5, 2019
This is gold. The Kentucky Derby is an analogy of Trump’s 2016 win but that thought totally blows over his tiny brain. And he still can’t proofread or spellcheck. If only he had spelled it Kenf@cky.
https://t.co/a1Qx0FL8lA
— Midnight (@McBanio) May 5, 2019
If you are just waking up and wondering why Kentuky is trending, here is why…
Donald Trump is an uneducated imbecile.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 5, 2019
I know nothing about the Kentucky Derby disqualification but based on Trump’s tweet I now assume the horse was concealing razors in his ankle tapes
— Maria Schneider (@marlaschnelder) May 5, 2019
Kentucky Derby Winner Country House has been invited to the White House by President Trump.
Country House replied, “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass I would have came in second!”
— Travis Allen
(@TravisAllen02) May 4, 2019
The best shade is the subtle shade. Dictionary.com wins this time, with a tweet posted one hour after the “Kentuky” incident.
The name Kentucky is thought to be of Iroquois or Shawnee origin, perhaps a Wyandot (Iroquoian) word meaning “meadow.”https://t.co/d30jzumoOz
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) May 5, 2019
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