been attacks. the times notes half of those attack tweets were sometime between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., the time he spends without advisories around him: he has praised himself in 2,000 of his tweets. in 1,700 tweets he has promoted conspiracies. he has attacked ally nations in 233 tweets, and he has praised dictators in at least 132. the times reports the white house even considered asking twitter to put a 15-minute delay on the president s twitter account early on in his presidency. for now, trump s white house counselor, kean tells the times trump, quote, needs to tweet like we need to eat. that wraps it up for me this hour. i m rachel maddow lui. i ll be back tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. have a great night. my insurance rates are probably gonna double.
(grover) cause an accident? maybe. (bert) how do you know all this stuff? (burke) just comes with experience. (all muppets) yup. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum let me tell you about twitter. i think that maybe i wouldn t approximate here if it wasn t for twitter because i kept such a fake press, such a dishonest press. when i can reach whether it s 90 million or 100 million or 80 million, how far many people, when i can reach that many people, twitter a wonderful thing for me because i get the word out. today the new york times combed through the over 11,000 tweets today doing a deep dive into how he gets the word out. half of his tweets, 5,889 have been attacks. the times notes half of those attack tweets were sometime
right to expect a crazed twitter attack on robert mueller, whenever the president took a break from his homework assignment of answering robert mueller s written questions. today was that day. the president delivered four attack tweets against robert mueller without one word of truth or sanity in any of them. historians will use them as a window into the deeply perverted mind of the president of the united states. msnbc s nicole wallace reports that a source close to the president told her today that, quote, his mind is the worst it has been since the campaign and that among the west wing staff there is a near universal sense offo foreboding. politico quotes, that the trump white house is quote preparing for the worst. you can see it in trump s body language. all week long there is something troubling him. it s not just a couple of staff
economy, 127, health care, 113. and daniel, there s so many fascinating elements of this including 127 lies about the economy when the economy is doing very well. when the truth is actually a good story to tell. yes. and i think that speaks of the fact that republicans realize that this election was not the economy s stupid election. this initially was supposedly going to be the election of the trump tax cuts. that s what was going to carry republicans to victory and then maintaining strong economic growth. i think what trump and his team realized was that opinions of the president s own conduct, behavior and actions superceded any economic growth people were seeing. he had to exaggerate and he had to embellish and he had to lie about that, too. it does seem that the tweets especially the attack tweets and
when the truth is actually a good story to tell. yes. and i think that speaks of the fact that republicans realize that this election was not the economy s stupid election. this initially was supposedly going to be the election of the trump tax cuts. that s what was going to carry republicans to victory and then maintaining strong economic growth. i think what trump and his team realized was that opinions of the president s own conduct, behavior and actions superceded any economic growth people were seeing. he had to exaggerate and he had to embellish and he had to lie about that, too. it does seem that the tweets especially the attack tweets and the robert mueller tweets today are indicative of what s on the president s mind and what he thinks his job is today.