Sunday, June 4, 2017

It's been another week of WTH - what the heck - on social media in America.


First, we had #covfefe from @realDonaldTrump on May 31. There were plenty of speculations and interpretations to the meaning of the phrase President Trump originally tweeted "Despite the constant negative press covfefe."


The next day, Hillary Clinton responded that "People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe."


Then, comedienne Kathy Griffin posted a photo holding a mock severed head belonging to Trump. I will agree that I was offended by this, it went too far, especially considering the president still has a pre-teen son.


Griffin paid the price despite apologizing as CNN cut ties with her.


Next? President Trump wants to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, which the U.S. entered on an executive order last year from then-President Barack Obama. However, as the U.S. has to wait until 2020 to official withdraw, the next presidential election could take place before then.


After that, unfortunately, came the latest round of terror attacks in London. While there were plenty of tweets and messages being sent to social media in support of London, I was surprised to see many tweets stating that sending those sentiments isn't enough, and real action is needed. I was also relieved to see that NFPW's own Cynthia Price returned safely from her trip to London despite the terror attacks ... and that she was looking forward to her next trip to the UK.


But then, Vice President Mike Pence announced here in Iowa that President Trump is more concerned about "Des Moines than Denmark." While I'm suitably impressed by that as our little flyover state is usually ignored except every four years at the special political event known as the Iowa Caucus, I think it's incumbent of our administration to be concerned about everywhere.


What will happen next? Goodness only knows. I did see something on Twitter (my source for all things lately, it seems) that made perfect sense. This isn't an exact quote, but the sentiment is there: why do we always say for someone to rest in peace; shouldn't the thought be for us all to live in peace?

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