Trump on Twitter

Recently I decided to follow Donald Trump on Twitter, not because I support Mr. Trump, but because I was interested in what he was saying. The schoolyard taunts that make up most of his tweets would be entertaining if they didn't come from someone who wants to be the leader of the free world. Here's a few of my observations on his Twitter feed.

A common theme of many tweets is reference to polls. Polls that show Mr. Trump ahead are celebrated, polls that show him behind are derided as "rigged" or "fake".

Tragedies are held up as examples of Trump being right. A Muslim kills somebody and he celebrates being right on terrorism, somebody's killed in Chicago and he crows about being right on law & order. Heroin overdoses in the Midwest prove that we must build a wall.

Schoolyard name-calling.

He points to a national problem, poverty, violence, trade etc and ends his tweet with "I will fix"

Attacks on individuals in the media (Joe Scarborough, Megyn Kelly)

And craziest of all, he takes the "I'm rubber and you're glue" approach, accusing Clinton of being a bigot to counter the widespread view of him as bigoted; he responds to suggestions that he is temperamentally unfit for the office by suggesting that Clinton isn't, throwing in conspiracy theories about Clinton's health after his doctor throws together a "medical report" that looks like it was done by a stoned high schooler

Pretty much this Twitter feed is somebody with a smart phone and no impulse control