Donald J. Trump told us he wouldn’t tweet once became president of the United States.
“I’ll be too busy” making America great again, building a wall, defeating ISIS and bringing back jobs that had been shipped to “China and Mexico,” the president said.
The president has gone Twitter crazy. He can’t stop tweeting policy decisions, criticism of foes, friends and the media.
He also told us he wouldn’t have time to play golf, that he doesn’t even think he’ll take vacations once he took the presidential oath. How’s he done there?
Trump is set to play more golf in his first year than his predecessor, Barack H. Obama, did during his eight years as president.
He’s now zero for two.
OK, now he says he doesn’t watch much television. No time for that, either. The president says he reads “a lot of documents.” Is he telling the truth on this one? The New York Times reports that Trump watches more than four hours of TV daily; it might be as much as eight hours.
He watches CNN, Fox, a little MSNBC, perhaps a broadcast network news show or two, according to the Times. Then he tweets almost immediately after hearing the news, whether it’s “fake” or whether it comes from Fox — his favorite news network.
So, by my score, the president is zero for three on these promises and declarations.
Oh, but what the heck. He “tells it like it is.”