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Trump kicks off Independence Day with predawn post about Pee-wee Herman
The President as Late-Night TrollPower at the TopDonald Trump is not a commentator on the political system. He is the institutional center of it. When the president spends the early hours of the morning blasting out juvenile memes about Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. James Talarico, that is not random internet noise. It is a display of executive power reduced to ego management, with the presidency itself used as a vehicle for personal humiliation.The source material gives the basic frame: Trump posted at 2:11 a.m. and again at 2:19 a.m., mocking Democratic lawmakers with schoolyard imagery and even…
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