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The Twitter Feud Shot

To begin, a non-comprehensive list of the people President Trump has engaged in Twitter feuds with since the 2016 election:
  1. Hillary Clinton
  2. Senator Ted Cruz
  3. Snoop Lion
  4. (then) Senator Jeff Flake
  5. Congressman Adam Schiff
  6. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
  7. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un
  8. Former FBI Director James Comey
  9. Former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
  10. The National Football League
  11. Various NFL football players
  12. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
  13. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  14. Special Counsel Robert Mueller
  15. Former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
  16. The cast and crew of Saturday Night Live
  17. Arnold Schwarzenegger


I could go on, but you get the point, right? POTUS has anger management issues, clearly, and, equally clearly, a Twitter problem.

Honestly, if you had told me, back in April of 2010 when I joined Twitter (follow me: @LiteraryGrrrl) that the social media site would one day be a space of contention for Presidential politics AND a force for domestic and foreign policy, I would have...I don't know. I don't know what I would have done: laugh? Cry?

Whatever. I wouldn't have believed you.

There's so much that is ridiculous about the Trump presidency, but his social media habit has to rank in the top five on anyone's list of Ridiculous Trump-Related Things. This is especially true, because Trump's twitter feuds are *both* petty AND potentially catastrophic. Wouldn't it be perfectly 2019 if WWIII was sparked by an angry tweet?

Ha-ha. Wait. That's actually terrifying. Let's do shots because the world is going to burn.


What's in the shot glass:

Combine equal parts sour apple pucker and raspberry liqueur with twice as much Dr. Pepper in a cocktail shaker over ice. Lightly shake. Pour into a shot glass and garnish with a blue Peep. Shoot and cry for our collective futures.
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