Tweets Of The Day -- The Insurrectionist

Fed by -- you guessed it -- Fox "News" stories this morning:

Hey @FBI, the President of the United States appears to be calling for COVID-19-spreading riots against Democratic governors on his Twitter feed.

You can find him at @realDonaldTrump. Thanks. pic.twitter.com/oDt1EYBHbZ

— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) April 17, 2020

I lack words to describe how stupid and dangerous this is. If social distancing to conquer #COVID19 becomes a political and cultural war, we're all doomed. pic.twitter.com/rKAIgZfcdK

— Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) April 17, 2020

Question: what is the most unhelpful thing the president can tweet during a pandemic?

Answer: 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/z59r6i8QvG

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 17, 2020

It’s not every Friday that the president* takes to the electric Twitter machine to foment insurrection. https://t.co/FxHrvl7eOG

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 17, 2020

Trump has tweeted more frequently and more passionately against measures to stop the coronavirus from killing people than he has tweeted sympathetically about the people killed by the coronavirus. Tells you everything you need to know about him, if you're willing to hear it.

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) April 17, 2020

It's kind of perfect that when Trump's incompetence or malignance causes suffering in his base they get furious at Democrats trying to work their way out of it to keep them alive.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 17, 2020

It is the President of the United States, literally trying to divide the Union. https://t.co/09KLq9ycJA

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 17, 2020

LIBERATE THE TESTS!
LIBERATE THE MASKS!
LIBERATE THE CHECKS!
LIBERATE THE LOANS! pic.twitter.com/EeTQXbaIl5

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) April 17, 2020

Something tells us this will be a script he'll pull out again after November 3.  We need to be prepared.

Then again,

Thing about Trump’s call for insurrection: the kinds of people who showed up in Lansing—a lot of old people who wouldn’t get out of their cars—are far from a Freikorps or Bolshevik vanguard.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 17, 2020

BONUS:  The divisive dolt is also picking winners (red states) and losers (blue states) for his small business slush fund --

I’m hard pressed not to think that this is political. Blue states like California got a pathetic number of loans issued. Nebraska got nearly 75% of loans requested. I smell a rat with orange hair.  https://t.co/IWK2anAOHI

— Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) April 16, 2020