Last week, Jonah Goldberg of National Review, wrote something very funny about Donald Trump and this thing he has for Saturday morning tweeting. It was in the wake of Trump’s tweets about his phones being tapped and Goldberg wrote:
Can you imagine the dread, the slow-burning existential panic that overtakes White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday evenings?
After Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner — who are known to have a calming effect on the president — head off to honor the Jewish Sabbath, Priebus and Spicer have to white-knuckle it until dawn, gripping their phones with tobacco-stained fingers as they constantly refresh Twitter. They must feel like they work for a kind of werewolf who, in the dark, still hours of the weekend, transforms into a presidency-gobbling beast.
I can almost hear the wail that slipped past Priebus’s lips on Saturday morning when, just as the chirping birds provided a hopeful soundtrack for the first light of a new day, the president’s tweets started pouring forth.
It was perfectly stated. Granted, this morning’s Twitter adventure is not as reckless, but yapping about Germany and NATO with an important European ally is likely not the best use of his time:
Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017
…vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017
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If you had such a GREAT meeting, why on earth would you heckle them about NATO less than 24 hours later?
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This short item on Trump’s Saturday morning tweeting starts with a classic blurb from @JonahNRO https://t.co/iSVc195HKR
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) March 18, 2017
If Trump's secret agenda were to weaken the US while tearing apart NATO & our closest partnerships (UK, GER), what would he do differently?
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 18, 2017
Trump started his let's-ditch-alliances kick with a $94K ad buy in 1987 just weeks after he 1st visited the USSR.https://t.co/ODFn9qViSO
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 18, 2017
Since POTUS is insulting our German allies, time to remind that part of Berlin's under-spending on defense is on ushttps://t.co/HokujOV1Em
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 18, 2017
NATO members don't "pay" the U.S. Each has a defense budget. In '14, the alliance set a goal of 2% of GDP by '24. Does our prez know this? https://t.co/UzH24nKCKZ
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) March 18, 2017
For eight years, Republicans (like me) blasted Obama for alienating our allies and encouraging our enemies. What do you say now, GOP?
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) March 18, 2017
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