US President Donald Trump is
at his favourite pastime again, pastimes that he routinely forgets to keep a
bay as pastimes while donning the all important hat of the world’s most
powerful person (he also conveniently forgets that it makes his position as the
most responsible one as well).
He is back at slamming his bĂȘte
noir Barack Obama, his predecessor in the White House, and is adding some
garnishing to it by sparing some visionary words from his stable for Arnold Schwarzenegger,
the Hollywood action machine with a long career as a Republican politician (and
California Governor).
Both are known for their
dislike for Donald Trump. Obama has been a towering presence with two
successive terms in the White House and Trump treated him like his primary
opponent even if he was pitted against Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s Obama tweetaculation
of the day are:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Terrible! Just found out that
Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory.
Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
Is it legal for a sitting
President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an
election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
I'd bet a good lawyer could
make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in
October, just prior to Election!
How low has President Obama
gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
See the range here! Blaming
Obama for tapping his phones, Trump’s tweetacules use some mighty words like
McCarthyism or ‘new low’ or Watergate. People are busy analysing that whether
Donald Trump will be another Richard Nixon in terms of an aborted presidential
term. By using the Richard Nixon/Watergate corollary, Trump, it seems, is
trying to send out a message that using such a corollary to paint Trump in a
negative light is fundamentally flawed.
Donald Trump’s another target
of the day is nowhere near to the towering presence of Barack Obama. But even
then, he is no lesser important in the US society, especially when people have
doubts about Trump who is seeing historically low approval ratings. But in the
classic way of ‘I will always chase my detractors come what may’, Trump never
forgets to shoot a punch whenever he sees an opportunity to deride his opponents.
Schwarzenegger has decided to
leave hosting Celebrity Apprentice where he replaced Donald Trump. Trump has
always criticised Arnold for not delivering on the show the way he did.
Tweetaculations on it have been in vogue. Now Trump thinks that Arnold is being
sacked from the show for not delivering a hit performance and finds it apt for
another round or Arnold bashing tweets. He wrote,
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't
voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings,
not by me. Sad end to great show
But then Arnold’s reputation of
being an action machine is not any fluke. He immediately hit back.
Arnold ✔ @Schwarzenegger
You should think about hiring
a new joke writer and a fact checker.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/838016045222854656 …
Well, whatever might be
Arnold’s intent behind advising Trump to hire new joke writer and fact checker,
we indeed know that the Trump Team indeed needs an army of fact checkers, especially
after repeated exaggerated speeches by Trump, before and after his election.
Latest in the series is his maiden congressional speech delivered to joint
sitting of the US Congress which ran so low on facts that media houses not just
in the US but globally carried out its ‘fact checking’ analysis of it.
©SantoshChaubey