Par for the Coarse

We’ve become so accustomed to SAD! presidential tweets that are a TOTAL DISASTER! that we barely bat an eye when they pollute our communal stream. But occasionally we’re awakened from the new normalization. For example, when in the midst of a pandemic that has taken nearly 100K American lives and a weekend when we’re supposed to be paying tribute to hundreds of thousands of fallen soldiers, the POTUS uses Twitter to promote conspiracy theories about a commentator being a murderer and shares messages that describe the former First Lady and Secretary of State as a skank and a potential VP candidate as having “visited every buffet” in her state. WaPo summarizes the moment as kindly as possible: On weekend dedicated to war dead, Trump tweets insults, promotes baseless claims and plays golf. (As many have noted in regards to the president’s golf outing, he’s currently 98,129 over par.)