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Donald Trump has officially lost all chill on Twitter

His latest tweets were in response to a 'New York Times' report.

 

Amrita Khalid

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Posted on Aug 14, 2016   Updated on May 26, 2021, 6:32 am CDT

Someone please take Donald Trump‘s phone away from him. 

There’s growing evidence that the Donald officially lost it on Twitter this weekend. It’s true that Trump regularly loses his cool to some degree, but this time feels different. The GOP presidential nominee’s most recent tweetstorms have worried observers. 

Former Ron Paul aide Bruce Bartlett put it this way: 

Trump’s reaction to a recent New York Times story portraying a campaign in tatters was to continue slamming the media. Blistering accusations that the Times lied in its coverage of the dysfunctional Trump campaign was followed minutes later by tweets informing America that everything was A-OK on Team Trump:

At one point it appeared that Trump had forgotten how to retweet, something he’s frequently had trouble with to the detriment of his campaign. The Republican nominee instead opted to directly copy and paste exuberant tweets from his fans. This, of course, had the unfortunate drawback of making it appear that Trump was showering himself with praise.

After taking the rest of the day to cool off, he fired off these tweets at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning:

This was all before 6am ET on a Sunday morning, which no doubt reinforced their unhinged quality. Trump either woke up ridiculously early, or used a nifty social media management tool (shoutout to Hootsuite!) to pre-schedule his tweets. 

It’s no doubt been a rocky August for Trump, with his post-convention bounce all but eliminated and Clinton’s lead in the polls only widening. Recent Trump missteps include calling for “Second Amendment” people to deal with Clinton, which some believed was a call for her assassination, and claiming that President Barack Obama was the founder of ISIS. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort blasted Jake Tapper on Sunday for misinterpreting Trump’s Second Amendment comments as a threat. 

“Most people did not interpret it that way, it was not at all meant to be a threat,” Paul Manafort told Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.

A CBS News poll of battleground states released on Sunday showed Clinton leading by five points in Florida and with double-digit leads in Virginia and New Hampshire. Another poll by USA Today/Rock the Vote released Sunday indicated that Trump has the worst showing among American voters under the age of 35 out of any presidential candidate in history. 

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*First Published: Aug 14, 2016, 6:52 pm CDT