Trump Goes on Angry Anti-Media Tweetstorm, Demands Reporters Give Back “Noble Prizes”
Being forced to stay inside and away from the golf course seems to be hitting President Donald Trump particularly hard this weekend. On Sunday the president went on an angry Twitter rant that was intense even by Trump’s standards. And in his seething, it looks like the president didn’t really think twice about spelling, criticizing reporters who won “Noble prizes” investigating his administration, and those who say he eats “a hamberger” in his bedroom.
In his rambling outburst on Sunday afternoon, Trump complained that no one applauds him for all the hard work he is doing during the coronavirus crisis. He claimed he hasn’t left the “White House in many months” but then has to “read a phony story” in the New York Times about his work schedule “written by a third rate reporter” who doesn’t know him. “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & see that I am angrily eating a hamberger & Diet Coke in my bedroom,” Trump wrote. “People with me are always stunned. Anything to demean!” He later deleted that tweet and reposted it with hamburger spelled correctly. (For the record, this wasn’t the first time the president misspelled “hamburgers”; last year he wrote “hamberders.”) It looks like the president was angry at a story published Thursday in the New York Times that reported on the president’s life during the pandemic. That story focused on how the president seems particularly angry at the coverage of his administration, noting that even Trump’s old ally Fox News isn’t “portraying him as he would like to be seen.”
I work from early in the morning until late at night, haven’t left the White House in many months (except to launch Hospital Ship Comfort) in order to take care of Trade Deals, Military Rebuilding etc., and then I read a phony story in the failing @nytimes about my work….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
Spelling wasn’t the only thing wrong with that series of tweets. Trump also claimed he hadn’t left the White House in “many months,” when the truth is that his last rally was on March 2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. But, hey, at this point we all feel like we’ve been stuck inside for months.