Donald Trump’s communication team evidently forgot Rule Number One when plagiarizing or getting someone else to write your homework for you: don’t use vocabulary and grammar you don’t actually know.
Today’s tweet, purportedly from the POSOTUS, reeks and drips of inauthenticity. I present exhibit A:
If this were a homework assignment, Donnie would get a big, fat “F” for passing off someone else’s work as his own.
Evidence:
- Complete sentences
- Proper capitalization
- Lack of SCREAMING CAPS
- Proper punctuation
- Accurate spelling
- Effective use of a subordinate clause, without a comma splice
- Grasp of grammar, proper use of an indirect pronoun: “most of whom”
- Use of vocabulary far above his reading level: “excoriated”
- A cogent thought stream
While the first suspicion would fall on Stephanie Grisham, the Press Secretary who holds no Press Conferences, there are others who have convincing arguments indicating that Stephen Miller is the puppeteer here:
Just as Donald has a tell that he’s made up a lie (OK, not that he opens his mouth), when he says, “So another foreign leader says to me, ‘Sir, <blah, blah, blah, sycophantic self-serving compliment, blah blah blah, you’re the greatest’>,” his Twitter feed shows not only when his Tweets were ghost written, but arguably when he’s off on his medications.
So here’s likely Donald himself, on meds (barely):
Rant mode on the evening wind down, last doses were taken with food at evening Big Mac ...
And at 8:22 A.M., the meds are just kicking in, but not quite there yet…
Random caps, aimless rants, and SCREAMS!!! Add in spelling errors, and that’s better than a biometric verification system to declare authenticity from tiny hands and a simple mind.
We could go on ad nauseum, but the point is that despite the irony of Tweeting about Fake News using a ghost writer, the disingenuousness that is part and parcel of this administration shows we are clearly beyond the Rubicon of being able to trust anything out of the White House, but the polarized base will blindly accept anything it is told.
MAGA is no longer a slogan, it’s clearly a cult, and may the gods help the rest of us survive its demagogue and followers. Tragically for many of the the Kurds, it’s already too late.