Tweet of the Day

This was an easy winner.  Nothing else came close.

That said, although this is officially just one tweet, it had several screen shots attached which explain the whole story.  And so I'm embedding them each below to tell the tale.

This appears on the level.  It comes from a gentleman from the U.K., Liam Bennett of Twyn, Ammanford, Wales.  The tweet he posted went as follows --

You can't read the attached screenshots from this, so we'll get to them in a moment.  But just a quick explanation first.  It all began when Mr. Bennett saw an online social media question from a publication, and he decided to answer, sardonically.  

Pretty good, fun response, and he no doubt thought that was it. Much to his great surprise, however, Mr. Bennett's quip reply got him followed by an unexpected source,

Now that was certainly a big-enough surprise outcome from his joke.  But as things turned out, Mr. Bennett of Twyn, Ammanford, Wales didn't only get followed by the president of the United States, it turned out that the commander-in-chief of U.S. armed forces overseeing the coronavirus pandemic and national protests over the police and Black Lives Matter as he faces the General Election in a few months had enough time on his hands to offer a chat --​

Which brings us to the ending Mr. Bennett referred to in his public tweet --

As I said above, I don't know for certain that this exchange was all true.  But as far as I can tell from a very limited perspective, it appears to be.  The larger question is what that Trump himself doing the tweeting, or just an aide?  While a reasonable view would be that was someone else (or at least should be, in a sane world), that there was a personal offer made suggest that this was Trump.  Yes, of course, even an aide could have done that, knowing that there was no reason such an offer had to be kept, it still raises the possibility or even probability that an aide wouldn't want to make such a personal invitation.  And think to put a self-aggrandizing, personal promotion in it.  But even if this was just an aide -- it's still a really fine exchange with the office of the president.