Trump, National Mourning, and Social Media

Nadin Brzezinski
4 min readDec 6, 2018

There are moments that offer glimpses into the needy nature of the current president. The National day of mourning is one of those. While the country slowed down for a state funeral, Donald Trump did not stop with the Twitter rant of the day. However, they are becoming increasingly needy, the media has refused to carry them. This is good. In fact, American media should stop quoting them, period. They offer little, and as we have seen can crash markets.

But they are a window into how much this president needs to be at the center of all. Two of his tweets are…

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB