Keeping the Mad King happy
Back in July of 2017 Trump had his totally inexperience daughter “sit in” for him at the G20. People weren’t used to his casual nepotism at the time and were rightly appalled. It set off quite a brouhaha prompting the Whiner-inchief to issue a tweet saying that such a thing is very “standard.” (It is not. Of course.) The he got mad and tweeted: “If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!,” Trump said.
Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 10, 2017
It wasa good zinger, totally forgotten by everyone by now, but it got 500,000 twitter “likes” and apparently the whole administration went crazy. According o the Daily Beast:
That kickstarted a weeks-long investigation, prompted by the secretary’s office, into who exactly at the Brussels mission had access to the Twitter account and hit “Like” on Clinton’s tweet, according to two former U.S. officials…At least 10 people were interviewed about whether they, as administrators of the account, had mistakenly or deliberately pressed the “Like” button. All of them denied any wrongdoing, those sources said. One individual familiar with the exchanges said the secretary of state’s top managers in Washington “wanted blood” and called Brussels numerous times demanding the name of the culprit.
They never found the nefarious culprit but they made the twitter account accessible to only two people and undoubtedly kept n eagle eye on both of them going forward..
Apparently, the State Department is still vigilant in its monitoring of various twitter accounts mostly because it’s so difficult to align State Department policy with the president’s inane tweets. They never know when Trump is going to abruptly change course and undercut the work people are doing in the field.
The Beast writes that nobody knows whether Trump was aware of the Chelsea hunt but plenty of people in the White House were:
According to two former White House officials, word of the “Chelsea Clinton thing,” as one of the ex-officials said they’d dubbed it, soon reached the halls of the West Wing, where it became a piece of gossip and facepalming among Trump aides, many of whom were still trying to root out perceived foes in their ranks, often by labeling enemies in conversations to the president or to senior staffers as “Never Trumpers,” “anti-Trump,” and “leakers.”
This is no way to run a Superpower. In fact, it’s no way to run a city council. Or a lemonade stand…
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