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RIP to the World’s Greatest Poster of All Time, @RealDonaldTrump

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RIP to the World’s Greatest Poster of All Time, @RealDonaldTrump

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Katherine Krueger
Jan 8, 2021
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RIP to the World’s Greatest Poster of All Time, @RealDonaldTrump

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Not since the burning of the library at Alexandria have we lost so much culture in one fell swoop: On Friday night, after normal business hours, Twitter permanently banned our sitting president, Donald Trump, from the social media site, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence" after a bunch of pro-Trump weirdos stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

It's about as courageous of Twitter to ban Trump with less than two weeks in his presidency as it is of the rats in his Cabinet who are resigning this week. And it's inarguable that Trump used Twitter for evil ends. There's a strong case to be made that he was elected because of Twitter, where he'd spent years building a mass following for years by tweeting about petty grievances about Graydon Carter and Diet Coke and eventually to fan the flames of Obama-era birtherism.

He also used Twitter to announce some of his worst policies—like the Muslim travel ban—and a slew of others that freaked everyone out for a day but never came to pass. By doing so, and being an absolute buffoon the likes of which we'd rarely before, he also laid to rest even the most threadbare lies we could tell ourselves about American exceptionalism or somehow being better or made of stronger stuff than the rest of the world.

This story is not about weighing the moral implications of Trump's use of Twitter, or his reprehensible actions just in the last two days. It's also not for expounding at length about the free speech implications (hint: not good!) of a private company being the arbiter of what's acceptable, protected speech. This is simply about acknowledging that, through years of increasingly mind-crushing tweets, Trump ascended the mountain to become possibly the most iconically brain-poisoned poster of all time. Below, we've catalogued some of the most memorably insane posts of a man who was born for the media, and who stayed on top of his (posting) game until the end. Good night, sweet prince.

The Tweets About His "Haters"

Twitter avatar for @Choplogik
non-haunted gem (regular ) @Choplogik
can't believe a Wayback Machine snapshot of favstar will be the 45th U.S. President's national archive
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12:24 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2021
67Likes7Retweets
via the Trump Tweet Archive

The Graydon Carter Ones

The Old Replies

Twitter avatar for @cd_hooks
Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks
absolute legend. we will never again see his like. sic transit gloria mundi, in ictu oculi, amen and awomen
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12:04 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2021
339Likes41Retweets

The Ones about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Twitter avatar for @qLxke_
Luke @qLxke_
Trump could’ve kept his twitter account if he just kept giving relationship advice to Robert Pattinson instead of being a literal manbaby and constantly inciting violence and stuff smh
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11:58 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2021
147Likes23Retweets

Love/hate for Diet Coke

Team Kate Upton

New York Fashion Week

The Non-Racist One About Liz Warren

A Very "Special Date"

Twitter avatar for @beth_008
mike hawk @beth_008
@WhlteHovse @realDonaldTrump
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11:39 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2021
108Likes12Retweets

The Uncategorizable But Incredible

via the Trump Twitter Archive

This post WILL be updated as I remember other ones. Comment which ones I missed for the good of mankind!

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