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When it comes to messaging, no, Trump cannot walk and chew gum at the same time
The Washington Compost ^ | July 3, 2017 | Amber Phillips

Posted on 07/03/2017 9:50:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It's a common retort among those who have to work with President Trump but don't appreciate his tweeting: The president can do two things at once.

Trump allies' argument goes like this: “The fact of the matter is that he can do more than one thing at a time,” Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

That's technically true. The president can send a tweet while he's in a meeting. He could probably send several. It takes all of a couple seconds — a couple minutes, max — to formulate and post a 140-character tweet. But that argument misses the point entirely. The president is not undermining his agenda because he takes a few minutes out of his day to tweet. He's at risk of undermining his White House because of what he tweets.

Especially lately, he's posted content on his Twitter account that is so shockingly outside the norms of civility — let alone the norms for a president — that its political and cultural reverberations take the national conversation miles away from policy.


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Amber hasn’t figured out yet that we’re laughing at her, not at Trump.


21 posted on 07/03/2017 10:14:25 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While chewing gum and tweeting, he somehow managed to kick your globalist cherry picked candidate’s Butt.


22 posted on 07/03/2017 10:17:19 AM PDT by heights
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To: E. Pluribus Unum


23 posted on 07/03/2017 10:18:01 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who is Amber Phillips?


24 posted on 07/03/2017 10:20:13 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More fake news from the WaPo.


25 posted on 07/03/2017 10:29:51 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Psalm 144

“This is finally the end for Donald Trump. There is no way he can win against the Clinton juggernaut.”


26 posted on 07/03/2017 10:32:37 AM PDT by princeofdarkness (Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
More fake news from unnamed and imaginary sources:

t's a common retort among those who have to work with President Trump but don't appreciate his tweeting: The president can do two things at once.

27 posted on 07/03/2017 10:55:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (President Trump is not a Republican suffering from post traumatic press syndrome...!!!)
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To: trisham

Thanks!


28 posted on 07/03/2017 10:56:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (President Trump is not a Republican suffering from post traumatic press syndrome...!!!)
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To: trisham

Thanks!


29 posted on 07/03/2017 10:56:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (President Trump is not a Republican suffering from post traumatic press syndrome...!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So transparent. They’re attacking his Tweeting, which is one of Trump’s direct methods of communication and means of disparaging his enemies. Of course they would attack that. Any weapon fashioned against the socialists must be destroyed. They would have the Norks EMP to power grid back to the Middle Ages, even burn the whole country down just to stop Trump from Tweeting, to save their devil-spawned pride.


30 posted on 07/03/2017 11:01:38 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: IWontSubmit

Why the long face, Amber?

Hee Haw!


31 posted on 07/04/2017 6:58:09 AM PDT by Maskot (Obama lied, Susan Rice lied, They ALL lied)
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