Donald Trump huffed and puffed online after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged him to walk the streets of his state.
The 79-year-old president lashed out on Truth Social on Sunday at Moore’s “nasty and provocative” invitation three days earlier to join him for some light cardio in Baltimore, calling the city a “crime disaster” and threatening to deploy National Guard troops.
Trump was so angry about the public safety walk invitation that he suggested he may pull federal support for rebuilding the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year.
I’ve been tired of it since 2016.
The worst part is whenever you see some subjective word use like this, and then you dig into the actual source event or material, 99% of the time, it’s absolutely nothing. Oh, did T “melt down” by tweeting in all caps? Ah yes, so rare, an occurrence. And not just articles about him, but usually articles about his reaction as being something crazy or whatever suffer from this kind of hyperbole.
Also in the same category are articles with “will” or “can” or some other version of “maybe maybe maybe” or “likely to” in the headline. 99% of the time, no it won’t. It’s just a workaround for Betteridge’s law of headlines (any headline with a question mark can be answered “no”) that any article that suggests something might happens can be answered with “nah, probably not.”