Well, it wasn’t quite an entire day. But for more than 21 hours from Christmas night until late afternoon on December 26th, Donald J. Trump’s twitter account went dark while he and the First Lady went to visit U.S. troops in Iraq. Given the season this column naturally began to imagine the day without a Trump tweet as a heartwarming Rankin/Bass production. But given the President’s penchant for throwing rhetorical punches, perhaps this week’s brief Twitter hiatus should be called the silence of the slams.
Or maybe before rendering…