President Trump waited until the first night of the Democratic convention was nearly over before tweeting about it, firing off a barrage of tweets criticizing Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo while touting his own record as president, which Democrats had just spent nearly two hours battering.
Trump, who began tweeting about the convention only as former first lady Michelle Obama closed the show with the night’s final remarks, even took a shot at her, retweeting Lindsey Graham, who said his “view of what life was like after the Obama presidency is much different than that of @MichelleObama.”
Graham also tweeted, and Trump retweeted: “I remember a slow-growth economy, a weakened military, ISIS raging, Iran emboldened, China eating our lunch, businesses struggling, and out-of-control illegal immigration. Those are not the good old days to go back to.”
Trump derided Cuomo, who during his appearance attacked Trump’s handling of the coronavirus while touting his own, and referred derogatorily to Cuomo’s brother Chris with the nickname “Fredo,” a reference to the ill-fated younger brother of “Godfather” Michael Corleone. And he retweeted Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of public affairs for Health and Human Services, asking whether the Democratic convention knew that Andrew Cuomo “forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers.”
Cuomo, just like his brother Fredo, has not got a very good memory! https://t.co/H8J0RjNlvb
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020
Trump retweeted two Graham posts listing nine Trump presidential accomplishments, including his appointment of two Supreme Court justices, tax cuts, deregulation of the economy, a tough stance with China, and his latest achievement, a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates he helped negotiate.
He also tweeted articles that countered Democratic claims voiced throughout the first night that Trump was trying the undermine the election by hamstringing the post office.
