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Against Stiff Competition, Donald Trump Reclaimed His Throne as the Worst Tweeter

There was a lot of reading to do on Thursday, both in terms of the Mueller report and Twitter.
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On Thursday, the American public had a lot to wait around for—first for Attorney General William Barr’s press conference about the Mueller report, and then the report itself, finally released (with redactions) after the nearly two-year investigation. The best place to kill time, unfortunately, is Twitter. And listen, there were bad tweets as we knew there would be. But it wasn’t like the last time, the roughly 90 minutes between the delivery of the Mueller report and the Justice Department’s comment on it, on March 22—a dead space where all our worst tweets went. But this time, between Barr’s presser and the release of the report, I dunno, Twitter seemed fine by comparison. Right? I can’t put my finger on why, but all seemed neutered and quiet on the extremely online front, besides some scattershot Eminem quoting.

Maybe most of us learned our lesson after last time. Or maybe there were a ton of bad tweets, and they just made less of an impact, because no pun, no clever comparison, no apt insight could ever compare to the biggest, most terrible tweet, which arrived online shortly before Barr took the stage. My god, it’s bad:

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It’s the black hole of bad tweets, so incredibly dense it sucks up all else. It’s an eclipse of good tweets, because it’s darkness eclipses anything good and light. One could write, “O.K., I’ll bite. Who’s—” 1,000 times, and you wouldn’t come close to this bad, bad tweet. And he pinned it. To the top of the timeline, the worst timeline.

Anyway, the president hasn’t tweeted much since spending the morning screaming “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT” like a threat at the American people, as well as re-tweeting a bunch of stuff about Hillary Clinton (?) and posting this strange video of him saying “no collusion” a nutty amount of times. Barely a peep since the report got out, meaning, I guess, he’s waiting for tomorrow’s Fox & Friends to explain it to him.

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