Trump has a long history of posting stuff like this on the Internet, going all the way back to 2015 when he first ran for the Office of President, so him attempting to blame a staffer for the latest debacle is a bit hard to swallow. These posts should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation because it exposes something dangerous, the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention. In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis.
Trump should take his job seriously as opposed to being an 80-year-old shit poster on the Internet.
Back in 2015, his Twitter feed suggested Iowans were dumb for favoring Trump’s opponent, Ben Carson, in the polls. “Too much Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain?” read a post that Trump’s account reposted.
Trump later posted: “The young intern who accidentally did a Retweet apologizes.”
(Despite blaming an intern, the sentiment matched something Trump himself would later say, in public.)
In 2016, Trump posted an image of Hillary Clinton in front of piles of cash and the words “most corrupt candidate ever” inside a six-sided star reminiscent of the Star of David. The image had previously appeared on antisemitic, White supremacist message boards, and Trump’s campaign soon replaced it with a circle in place of the six-sided star.
