Trump retweets anti-Semitic poster’s attack on Clinton


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Trump Unloads on Twitter, Including a Video Shot at Clinton

Apparently agitated by Hillary Clinton and the promotion of her new book, Donald Trump spends Sunday morning on a tweetstorm, including a video showing him striking Clinton with a golf shot.

Within 90 minutes, Trump put out 15 tweets or retweets, ranging from another intervention in state politics to promotion of his supposed ability to save US companies to his anti-Clinton strike.

The Twitter “address” included a curiously-worded message on North Korean nuclear and missile testing, with Trump trying to belittle North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un as “Rocket Man”:

However, it was the video of Trump again vanquishing his 2016 opponent Clinton, this time with a golf ball, that drew the most attention.


The episode began on another topic, with Trump promoting another of his chosen candidates at state level:

An account puts out thousands of pro-Trump messages, “Trumpism 9.0”, immediately responded with an unrelated stream of images cheering Trump and sneering at Clinton as a bitter drunkard. Trump eagerly retweeted some of them:

Striking Clinton

Then Trump turned to another Twitter account, initially titled “Fuctupmind” but then changed to “Mike” and now labelled “CNN Sucks”, with a pinned video from September 14 splicing and manipulating footage to show Trump’s drive hitting Clinton in the back:

The message was further complicated by the revelation that Fuctupmind/Mike/CNN Sucks has other hatreds apart from Clinton — such as Jews. In a now-deleted tweets, he wrote in November 2016:

Please get rid of the Hasidic Jews. They are the worst people on the planet. They have taken over areas in NY [New York].

Trump also chided The New York Times and retweeted praise from a “Lana Del Fenty” — “we love and support Trump!” — whose other recent tweets include the lyrics from a Lana del Rey song, “my pussy taste like pepsi cola. my eyes are wide like cherry pies” and “open this tweet for an important message — fuck you”.

He then concluded with a series of messages shouting at “loser terrorists”, promoting a renewal of his blocked “Muslim Ban”, and trying to establish his Presidential authority:

In fact, Trump spent Sunday at his golf club in New Jersey — his 61st day at one of his golf clubs or resorts since he became President.


McMaster: Trump Better Off Without Bannon

National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster says Donald Trump is “better off” without chief strategist Steve Bannon, removed from the White House last month.

Asked in a Sunday TV interview about the bad blood between White House staff and Bannon, who is using Breitbart to attack McMaster and “globalists” and to launch primary challenges to incumbent GOP senators, the National Security Advisor said:

The administration is better off when we can serve the president by integrating and coordinating across all of our departments and agencies with our key allies and partners and to present the president with multiple options and then, based on his decisions, to help the president implement these policies that prioritize protecting and advancing the interests of the American people.

And so what’s important is to have an inclusive process, not to try to manipulate into a particular decision or to advance your own agenda.

See TrumpWatch, Day 240: GOP Prepares for Bannon’s War


McMaster: No White House Shift on Climate Change

National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster denies a claim that the Trump Administration is reocnsidering withdrawal from the Paris Accord on climate change.

According to a weekend claim, an European Union envoy said that, at a meeting in Montreal, Canada, US officials indicated that Washington might not follow through on Donald Trump’s declaration.

But McMaster said in a Sunday interview, “That’s a false report. The President decided to pull out of the Paris accord because it was a bad deal for the American people and a bad deal for the environment.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also rejected the report, although he said “the door is open” for a renegotiation of the agreement on US terms.