On the same day Hillary Clinton trolled President Trump on Twitter with an image of a children’s picture-book, she said in an interview that he should step away from the popular social media platform.
“Get over the Twitter stuff and get on to the diplomatic negotiations,” Clinton said Thursday evening as she promoted her new book, What Happened, on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” The former secretary of state’s remarks came not long after North Korea launched another missile into Japanese airspace. This is the second time that Pyongyang has done this.
“This missile test is sending a message from Kim Jong Un that he is not deterred. And that’s what I mean about all the tough talk that we hear from our president really actually playing right into Kim Jong Un’s hands,” Clinton said.
She concluded, “And that’s what I mean when I say he’s been played.”
Clinton’s remarks were made with the overall point that Trump needs to engage in more direct diplomacy, and spend less time shooting angry tweets at the North Koreans and South Koreans. She’s not wrong. As we’ve said repeatedly, it’d do everyone a world of good if someone in the White House stole the president’s phone and changed all of his Twitter login information.
That said, it seems counterproductive for a former first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state to criticize the president over his stupid Twitter addiction when she herself keeps indulging him in it.
If Clinton really believes Trump ought to forgo Twitter, it’d be helpful if she stopped feeding the beast.
