Trump's All-Caps OANN Tweet May Be His Most Telling Yet, and No One Seems to Care [View all]

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by John Ziegler | 3:35 pm, January 14th, 2017

One of the most dangerous elements of the coming presidency of Donald Trump is that he has completely desensitized us to our normal impulses before he has even officially taken office. There is no better indication of this phenomenon than his infamous Twitter account in general and one tweet in particular from today.

While his predictable condemnation of Democratic Congressman John Lewis claiming Trump is not a “legitimate” president has gotten most of the attention on this Martin Luther King holiday weekend, I’m referring to another tweet from the president-elect. This one was a response to the ongoing controversy over the Trump/Russia dossier which has dominated the news for the past several days.

In my view, it would be difficult for one sentence to be more telling/damning to an incoming president than this one:



Let’s break this down. First, the president-elect of the United States is tweeting in all capital letters. This is something that when done by an unknown person with an egg avatar usually results in an instant blocking/muting because it is assumed that they are at least partially nuts. For Trump to do this it must mean that the subject is REALLY important and that he is VERY confident in the truth of what he is saying. This means that its substance should be prone to even greater scrutiny.

Secondly, in the tweet he cites a One America News Network “report,” but there are multiple problems with this. One America News (on which I have appeared multiple times) is a complete joke. It is a tiny network based in a very small office building off a highway outside of San Diego. It has literally no “news” department from which to generate any legitimate original reporting.

OANN, which just hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, is very clearly attempting to make a name for itself by being the most pro-Trump outlet in the land (which is about as difficult a task as being the most obvious sycophant at an Oscar winner’s post-ceremony party) and nothing they say about him should be taken at face value by anyone. But in this particular case, Trump citing them is even more bizarre and lacking in credibility than it normally would be.

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