11-20-2020, 10:22 AM
Trumpâ€s post-election agenda: Six events, four rounds of golf, 400 tweets
On Tuesday morning, President Trump woke up in the White House for the 63rd-to-last time and did … something. There was nothing on his schedule, and in the hours since the sun rose, he has neither made any public appearances nor tweeted about anything.
The former is not unusual for Trump since Election Day. On 10 of the 14 days since Nov. 3, Trumpâ€s public calendar has been empty. On four of those days, he went to play golf at his private club in Virginia anyway. On one, Nov. 4, he showed up in the White House news briefing room at almost 3 a.m. to proclaim he would win states he eventually lost.
On the four days when he did have events on his calendar, they were mostly out of public view. He has had lunch with Vice President Pence twice, for example, as well as a meeting with the secretaries of state and treasury. On two days, heâ€s had one scheduled public event: a trip to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day and an event Friday focused on the effort to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus.
So thatâ€s three public events (including the early-morning appearance), four private ones (including a closed-door update on the vaccine program) and four rounds of golf.
But, with the exception of Tuesday (as of writing), there has been a steady flow of tweets. The president has tweeted or retweeted 400 times since midnight Nov. 4, and almost all of those posts have been pointed in the same direction: his claims that he won the election, which he lost, or throwing out whatever conspiracy theory about the election he might most recently have come across.
Almost two-thirds of his tweets since Election Day have been about the results of that election. Another cluster has been election-adjacent, such as the 20 tweets he offered about the pro-Trump march that was a reaction to his loss. Heâ€s also complained about the media two dozen times (excluding the tweets that complained about the election and the media). Those tweets, though, had an unusual target, heavily focused on complaining about Fox News after it had the temerity to accurately assess that he would lose the state of Arizona.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...00-tweets/
On Tuesday morning, President Trump woke up in the White House for the 63rd-to-last time and did … something. There was nothing on his schedule, and in the hours since the sun rose, he has neither made any public appearances nor tweeted about anything.
The former is not unusual for Trump since Election Day. On 10 of the 14 days since Nov. 3, Trumpâ€s public calendar has been empty. On four of those days, he went to play golf at his private club in Virginia anyway. On one, Nov. 4, he showed up in the White House news briefing room at almost 3 a.m. to proclaim he would win states he eventually lost.
On the four days when he did have events on his calendar, they were mostly out of public view. He has had lunch with Vice President Pence twice, for example, as well as a meeting with the secretaries of state and treasury. On two days, heâ€s had one scheduled public event: a trip to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day and an event Friday focused on the effort to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus.
So thatâ€s three public events (including the early-morning appearance), four private ones (including a closed-door update on the vaccine program) and four rounds of golf.
But, with the exception of Tuesday (as of writing), there has been a steady flow of tweets. The president has tweeted or retweeted 400 times since midnight Nov. 4, and almost all of those posts have been pointed in the same direction: his claims that he won the election, which he lost, or throwing out whatever conspiracy theory about the election he might most recently have come across.
Almost two-thirds of his tweets since Election Day have been about the results of that election. Another cluster has been election-adjacent, such as the 20 tweets he offered about the pro-Trump march that was a reaction to his loss. Heâ€s also complained about the media two dozen times (excluding the tweets that complained about the election and the media). Those tweets, though, had an unusual target, heavily focused on complaining about Fox News after it had the temerity to accurately assess that he would lose the state of Arizona.
more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...00-tweets/
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