Presidential Cocktails

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

Who could forget Drumpf's infamous "Covfefe" tweet?? Covfefe, the scandal: First of all, May 2017 feels somehow simultaneously like it was a million years ago, and also like it was just yesterday. Do you know what I mean? It is the perfect encapsulation of how Trump's presidency has compressed time. POTUS's half-asleep Twitter gaffe became an immediate global scandal. Looking back, it's hard to understand why. I mean, yes, he's President of the United States, so his every utterance and tweet is meaningful by definition. But of course  this tweet was an Ambien-induced mistake. Of course  there is no meaning behind the autocorrect created non-word "covfefe." But the entire world mulled over its meaning anyway. And President Thin-Skin played it off like he meant to tweet it. Because of course he did. When I set out to make a Covfefe-inspired shot I endeavored to represent all of the elements of this non-scandal by creating a shot that...