As I had said I'd do, I had fun live-tweeting during the State of the Union speech the other night. Here are my posts, ordered from the most popular to the least popular (all my tweets can be seen here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki):
1) What Trump neglected to talk about in his #SOTU speech:
- Climate change
- Gun violence
- Russia sanctions
- Education
- Carrier jobs
- Stormy Daniels
- Facts
- Covfefe
798 Likes, 373 Retweets
2) Trump: "I will not repeat the same mistakes of the past administrations. I will make my own mistakes, biglier mistakes. I know mistakes; I make the best mistakes, believe me."
#SOTU #Snark
139 Likes, 46 Retweets
3) Trump: "Our country's motto has always been 'In God We Trust.' It's been around since 1956 and that's when our country was founded. It's simple history, folks."
#SOTU #Snark
115 Likes, 53 Retweets
4) Trump just now: "$4,000 is a lot of money."
Trump then: "My daddy gave me a very small loan of $1 million."
Conclusion: According to Trump, 1,000,000 < 4,000.
#SOTU #Math
105 Likes, 45 Retweets
5) Average #SOTU speech length:
1) Clinton: 1 hour 15 minutes
2) Obama: 1 hr 3 min
3) Johnson: 54 min
4) Bush, Jr.: 53 min
5) Ford: 46 min
6) Bush, Sr.: 45 min
7) Reagan: 40 min
8) Carter: 37 min
9) Nixon: 35 min
10) Trump: 280 characters
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_minutes.php
91 Likes, 29 Retweets
6) Paul Ryan's Freudian slip: "It's my honor to prevent, I mean, present to you, the President of the United States."
#SOTU
84 Likes, 22 Retweets
7) Kennedy speaks fluent Spanish.
Trump: "Oh yeah? Well, I know how to say hello in Spanish: 'Taco.'"
#SOTU #Snark
83 Likes, 22 Retweets
8) Trump: "If you're like me, were born into a rich family, have always been surrounded by businesspeople who know all the tax loopholes, and have powerful buddies in Russia to help rig votes, you can do anything, believe me."
#SOTU #Snark
71 Likes, 21 Retweets
9) What Trump should have listed in his #SOTU speech:
- "A huge missile defense failure success!"
- "The best shutdown, just fantastic!"
- "My very own Benghazi!"
- "Banging a porn star!"
- "Bigly unapproval around the world!"
- "Embarrassing our uniom!"
66 Likes, 22 Retweets
10) The one thing that can be taken from tonight's #SOTU address: If Donald Trump were in a cover band, their rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" would take 2 hours due to him interrupting every couple of seconds to clap for himself.
61 Likes, 24 Retweets
11) 95% of the world is about to #TakeAKnee as Donald Trump gets ready to give his first #SOTU speech.
61 Likes, 22 Retweets
12) #SOTU
Clinton: 9,190 words in 1 hr 29 min
Trump: 5,830 words in 1 hr 20 min
Trump: "I know words; I have the best words. I just speak them so slowly, even mimes yell at me to hurry it up."
#Snark
52 Likes, 30 Retweets
13) Trump: "I'm gonna break the world record for audible sniffs in a #SOTU speech tonight. This is just going to be fantastic."
#Snark
62 Likes, 18 Retweets
14) BREAKING NEWS: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds a pre-#SOTU press conference, denying everything her boss has yet to say, calling words liberally-biased."
#Snark
50 Likes, 27 Retweets
14) Trump: "To fight that liberal site The Onion, I'm going to create the bigly better site, The Oniom. It's gonna fantastic, just tremendous."
#StateOfTheUniom #SOTU #Snark
65 Likes, 12 Retweets
16) ...and the award for Fakest News of the Year goes to Donald Trump's State of the Union address tonight.
#SOTU
54 Likes, 20 Retweets
16) Trump: "Serial killers are like not very good people."
GOP Congresspeople: :: standing ovation :: "That was profound, Mr. President! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
#SOTU #Snark
62 Likes, 12 Retweets
18) Trump: "Nothing says 'stable genius' like State of the Uniom. Period."
#SOTU #Snark
56 Likes, 13 Retweets
19) Trump: "Secretary Mattis is doing a great job."
Translation: "You're going to be fired tomorrow."
#SOTU #Snark
49 Likes, 15 Retweets
20) Trump: "I love the Constitution and all of its Ten Commandments. They're just fantastic. Number 11 is probably my favorite."
#SOTU #Snark
46 Likes, 17 Retweets
21) Trump: "It's my top priority to protect the people of this country. 30,000 people die from guns every year. So I think it'd be a mistake to do anything about gun violence. I go by logic sometimes, folks."
#SOTU #Snark
36 Likes, 22 Retweets
22) Trump: "We need our immigrants to love and respect this country just as much as I love and respect Russia."
#SOTU #Snark
40 Likes, 16 Retweets
23) Trump: sniff, clap, sniff, clap, sniff, MAGA, sniff
#SOTU
45 Likes, 10 Retweets
24) I was just handed Trump's #SOTU speech. Here are some of the highlights/lowlights:
- "The stock market. No one's seen numbers this big. There's a 2, a 6, something else."
- "So many jobs, especially lawyers."
- "America is not a sh*thole. Period. God bless us!"
#Snark
42 Likes, 10 Retweets
25) Trump: "If there's a mountain, we climb it. If there's a tax, we do stuff to it with scissors. If there's a car, we make it go vroom. If there's a p*ssy, I grab it."
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 11 Retweets
26) Trump seems to really turn things up a notch volume wise with words he's likely never said before. Just an observation...
#SOTU
36 Likes, 7 Retweets
26) Trump: "Steve Scalise is proof guns don't kill people. It says in the book of Two Corinthians, chapter something, verse something else, '...and Jesus said to them, 'If anyone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other, and bust out your AK-47.''"
#SOTU #Snark
37 Likes, 6 Retweets
28) Trump: "I will never stop fighting for our vets. This has been the case since I was born a few years ago. I fought for them then, fight for them now, and got out of fighting with them because of some bone-spur thing. Very painful. Very painful, people.'"
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 7 Retweets
29) Trump: "Even though many of them came from sh*tholes, the blacks have the lowest unemployment ever & it's all thanks to me. I snapped my fingers, said 'bigly' three times, and voila, it happened."
#SOTU #Snark
32 Likes, 8 Retweets
29) Trump: "The state of our uniom is strong, because the people of our uniom are strong!"
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 6 Retweets
31) Here's the moment when Donald Trump falls asleep during his first #SOTU...
29 Likes, 10 Retweets
32) I see #SOTU is trending #1. Trump's still clapping for himself, isn't he?
27 Likes, 10 Retweets
33) Claim: "Post-Donald Trump's first #SOTU speech is the longest night in the history of fact-checkers."
Politifact Grade: "True as F*ck"
#Snark
27 Likes, 6 Retweets
34) It's Donald Trump's plan to give himself a standing ovation for 50 minutes before saying God bless America.
#SOTU
24 Likes, 7 Retweets
35) Trebek: "'Bullsh*t' and 'hyperbole'"
Contestant: "What are the two best descriptors of Donald Trump's first #SOTU speech?"
Trebek: "That's correct."
#Snark
25 Likes, 5 Retweets
36) If a house was built well before Donald Trump purchased it and he placed a welcome mat inside, chances are he'd tell people, "I built this place from top to side, side to bottom, with my bare hands, bigly."
#SOTU #Snark
23 Likes, 6 Retweets
37) Trump: "If anyone does something bad, we will find you and we...will...we...will... :: starts snoring ::"
Congressional Republicans post-#SOTU: "Was that not the toughest-sounding man you've ever heard? Bravo, Mr. President!"
#Snark
20 Likes, 7 Retweets
38) Trump: "Little rocket man, my uniom is bigger than your uniom, believe me!"
#SOTU #Snark
19 Likes, 5 Retweets
38) Trump: "Freedom stands tall on big buildings all over, from Never-never land to Agrabah to Nambia to Tanzania Devil."
#SOTU #Snark
21 Likes, 3 Retweets
40) Trump: "Unlike Heidi Klum, beautiful clean coal is still a 10, believe me. So, so beautiful."
#SOTU #Snark #BeautifulCleanCoal
19 Likes, 4 Retweets
41) #SOTU viewers
45,600,000 (42% Rep, 33% Ind, 25% Dem)
Approval: 70%
Eligible voters: 218,959,000
Approval: 38% (87% Rep, 33% Ind, 7% Dem)
If all elig. voters watched and the percentages remained the same:
Overall speech approval: 43.2%
13 Likes, 8 Retweets
41) Trump tomorrow night: "The uniom Nambia's covfefe is bigly strong!"
#StateOfTheUniom #Snark #StableGenius #SOTU
17 Likes, 4 Retweets
43) #SOTU prediction
Trump: "Between fake news and the Russia hoax, there's too much dividing going on. So I'm going to unify us right now, bigly. It's time for the sh*tholes and non-sh*tholes to come together to make America great again!"
16 Likes, 3 Retweets
44) Trump: "Less than a year ago, I took very swift action. I was only allowed 140 characters at a time at that point, but believe me, the actions were tremendous."
#SOTU #Snark
14 Likes, 4 Retweets
45) Trump: "In my first year, I've taken us through fires, winds, waters, earths, and all of the other things from 'Captain Planet.'"
#SOTU #Snark
13 Likes, 3 Retweets
46) Trump: "Instead of spending more on our military than the next 7 countries combined, I think we should spend more on it than the next 13 planets combined. Period!"
#SOTU #Snark
14 Likes, 1 Retweet
47) Trump: "Our brave soldiers gave us freedom, so we should not be allowed that freedom when it comes to the National Anthem. Let's be consistent for a change here, people."
#SOTU #Snark
9 Likes, 5 Retweets
48) 1/30/2018 at 9:43 pm EST marks the first time Donald Trump ever uttered the word "reciprocal." He likely thinks it means "Octopusses have a lot of these things to help them walk on land and stuff."
#SOTU #Snark
9 Likes, 2 Retweets
49) Trump: "It's now my goal to be so boring, it makes Ben Stein come across like this guy..."
#SOTU #Snark
7 Likes, 3 Retweets
Totals: 2,886 Likes, 1,042 Retweets (Averages of 58.9 Likes, 21.3 Retweets)
1) What Trump neglected to talk about in his #SOTU speech:
- Climate change
- Gun violence
- Russia sanctions
- Education
- Carrier jobs
- Stormy Daniels
- Facts
- Covfefe
798 Likes, 373 Retweets
2) Trump: "I will not repeat the same mistakes of the past administrations. I will make my own mistakes, biglier mistakes. I know mistakes; I make the best mistakes, believe me."
#SOTU #Snark
139 Likes, 46 Retweets
3) Trump: "Our country's motto has always been 'In God We Trust.' It's been around since 1956 and that's when our country was founded. It's simple history, folks."
#SOTU #Snark
115 Likes, 53 Retweets
4) Trump just now: "$4,000 is a lot of money."
Trump then: "My daddy gave me a very small loan of $1 million."
Conclusion: According to Trump, 1,000,000 < 4,000.
#SOTU #Math
105 Likes, 45 Retweets
5) Average #SOTU speech length:
1) Clinton: 1 hour 15 minutes
2) Obama: 1 hr 3 min
3) Johnson: 54 min
4) Bush, Jr.: 53 min
5) Ford: 46 min
6) Bush, Sr.: 45 min
7) Reagan: 40 min
8) Carter: 37 min
9) Nixon: 35 min
10) Trump: 280 characters
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_minutes.php
91 Likes, 29 Retweets
6) Paul Ryan's Freudian slip: "It's my honor to prevent, I mean, present to you, the President of the United States."
#SOTU
84 Likes, 22 Retweets
7) Kennedy speaks fluent Spanish.
Trump: "Oh yeah? Well, I know how to say hello in Spanish: 'Taco.'"
#SOTU #Snark
83 Likes, 22 Retweets
8) Trump: "If you're like me, were born into a rich family, have always been surrounded by businesspeople who know all the tax loopholes, and have powerful buddies in Russia to help rig votes, you can do anything, believe me."
#SOTU #Snark
71 Likes, 21 Retweets
9) What Trump should have listed in his #SOTU speech:
- "A huge missile defense failure success!"
- "The best shutdown, just fantastic!"
- "My very own Benghazi!"
- "Banging a porn star!"
- "Bigly unapproval around the world!"
- "Embarrassing our uniom!"
66 Likes, 22 Retweets
10) The one thing that can be taken from tonight's #SOTU address: If Donald Trump were in a cover band, their rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" would take 2 hours due to him interrupting every couple of seconds to clap for himself.
61 Likes, 24 Retweets
11) 95% of the world is about to #TakeAKnee as Donald Trump gets ready to give his first #SOTU speech.
61 Likes, 22 Retweets
12) #SOTU
Clinton: 9,190 words in 1 hr 29 min
Trump: 5,830 words in 1 hr 20 min
Trump: "I know words; I have the best words. I just speak them so slowly, even mimes yell at me to hurry it up."
#Snark
52 Likes, 30 Retweets
13) Trump: "I'm gonna break the world record for audible sniffs in a #SOTU speech tonight. This is just going to be fantastic."
#Snark
62 Likes, 18 Retweets
14) BREAKING NEWS: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds a pre-#SOTU press conference, denying everything her boss has yet to say, calling words liberally-biased."
#Snark
50 Likes, 27 Retweets
14) Trump: "To fight that liberal site The Onion, I'm going to create the bigly better site, The Oniom. It's gonna fantastic, just tremendous."
#StateOfTheUniom #SOTU #Snark
65 Likes, 12 Retweets
16) ...and the award for Fakest News of the Year goes to Donald Trump's State of the Union address tonight.
#SOTU
54 Likes, 20 Retweets
16) Trump: "Serial killers are like not very good people."
GOP Congresspeople: :: standing ovation :: "That was profound, Mr. President! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
#SOTU #Snark
62 Likes, 12 Retweets
18) Trump: "Nothing says 'stable genius' like State of the Uniom. Period."
#SOTU #Snark
56 Likes, 13 Retweets
19) Trump: "Secretary Mattis is doing a great job."
Translation: "You're going to be fired tomorrow."
#SOTU #Snark
49 Likes, 15 Retweets
20) Trump: "I love the Constitution and all of its Ten Commandments. They're just fantastic. Number 11 is probably my favorite."
#SOTU #Snark
46 Likes, 17 Retweets
21) Trump: "It's my top priority to protect the people of this country. 30,000 people die from guns every year. So I think it'd be a mistake to do anything about gun violence. I go by logic sometimes, folks."
#SOTU #Snark
36 Likes, 22 Retweets
22) Trump: "We need our immigrants to love and respect this country just as much as I love and respect Russia."
#SOTU #Snark
40 Likes, 16 Retweets
23) Trump: sniff, clap, sniff, clap, sniff, MAGA, sniff
#SOTU
45 Likes, 10 Retweets
24) I was just handed Trump's #SOTU speech. Here are some of the highlights/lowlights:
- "The stock market. No one's seen numbers this big. There's a 2, a 6, something else."
- "So many jobs, especially lawyers."
- "America is not a sh*thole. Period. God bless us!"
#Snark
42 Likes, 10 Retweets
25) Trump: "If there's a mountain, we climb it. If there's a tax, we do stuff to it with scissors. If there's a car, we make it go vroom. If there's a p*ssy, I grab it."
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 11 Retweets
26) Trump seems to really turn things up a notch volume wise with words he's likely never said before. Just an observation...
#SOTU
36 Likes, 7 Retweets
26) Trump: "Steve Scalise is proof guns don't kill people. It says in the book of Two Corinthians, chapter something, verse something else, '...and Jesus said to them, 'If anyone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other, and bust out your AK-47.''"
#SOTU #Snark
37 Likes, 6 Retweets
28) Trump: "I will never stop fighting for our vets. This has been the case since I was born a few years ago. I fought for them then, fight for them now, and got out of fighting with them because of some bone-spur thing. Very painful. Very painful, people.'"
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 7 Retweets
29) Trump: "Even though many of them came from sh*tholes, the blacks have the lowest unemployment ever & it's all thanks to me. I snapped my fingers, said 'bigly' three times, and voila, it happened."
#SOTU #Snark
32 Likes, 8 Retweets
29) Trump: "The state of our uniom is strong, because the people of our uniom are strong!"
#SOTU #Snark
34 Likes, 6 Retweets
31) Here's the moment when Donald Trump falls asleep during his first #SOTU...
29 Likes, 10 Retweets
32) I see #SOTU is trending #1. Trump's still clapping for himself, isn't he?
27 Likes, 10 Retweets
33) Claim: "Post-Donald Trump's first #SOTU speech is the longest night in the history of fact-checkers."
Politifact Grade: "True as F*ck"
#Snark
27 Likes, 6 Retweets
34) It's Donald Trump's plan to give himself a standing ovation for 50 minutes before saying God bless America.
#SOTU
24 Likes, 7 Retweets
35) Trebek: "'Bullsh*t' and 'hyperbole'"
Contestant: "What are the two best descriptors of Donald Trump's first #SOTU speech?"
Trebek: "That's correct."
#Snark
25 Likes, 5 Retweets
36) If a house was built well before Donald Trump purchased it and he placed a welcome mat inside, chances are he'd tell people, "I built this place from top to side, side to bottom, with my bare hands, bigly."
#SOTU #Snark
23 Likes, 6 Retweets
37) Trump: "If anyone does something bad, we will find you and we...will...we...will... :: starts snoring ::"
Congressional Republicans post-#SOTU: "Was that not the toughest-sounding man you've ever heard? Bravo, Mr. President!"
#Snark
20 Likes, 7 Retweets
38) Trump: "Little rocket man, my uniom is bigger than your uniom, believe me!"
#SOTU #Snark
19 Likes, 5 Retweets
38) Trump: "Freedom stands tall on big buildings all over, from Never-never land to Agrabah to Nambia to Tanzania Devil."
#SOTU #Snark
21 Likes, 3 Retweets
40) Trump: "Unlike Heidi Klum, beautiful clean coal is still a 10, believe me. So, so beautiful."
#SOTU #Snark #BeautifulCleanCoal
19 Likes, 4 Retweets
41) #SOTU viewers
45,600,000 (42% Rep, 33% Ind, 25% Dem)
Approval: 70%
Eligible voters: 218,959,000
Approval: 38% (87% Rep, 33% Ind, 7% Dem)
If all elig. voters watched and the percentages remained the same:
Overall speech approval: 43.2%
13 Likes, 8 Retweets
41) Trump tomorrow night: "The uniom Nambia's covfefe is bigly strong!"
#StateOfTheUniom #Snark #StableGenius #SOTU
17 Likes, 4 Retweets
43) #SOTU prediction
Trump: "Between fake news and the Russia hoax, there's too much dividing going on. So I'm going to unify us right now, bigly. It's time for the sh*tholes and non-sh*tholes to come together to make America great again!"
16 Likes, 3 Retweets
44) Trump: "Less than a year ago, I took very swift action. I was only allowed 140 characters at a time at that point, but believe me, the actions were tremendous."
#SOTU #Snark
14 Likes, 4 Retweets
45) Trump: "In my first year, I've taken us through fires, winds, waters, earths, and all of the other things from 'Captain Planet.'"
#SOTU #Snark
13 Likes, 3 Retweets
46) Trump: "Instead of spending more on our military than the next 7 countries combined, I think we should spend more on it than the next 13 planets combined. Period!"
#SOTU #Snark
14 Likes, 1 Retweet
47) Trump: "Our brave soldiers gave us freedom, so we should not be allowed that freedom when it comes to the National Anthem. Let's be consistent for a change here, people."
#SOTU #Snark
9 Likes, 5 Retweets
48) 1/30/2018 at 9:43 pm EST marks the first time Donald Trump ever uttered the word "reciprocal." He likely thinks it means "Octopusses have a lot of these things to help them walk on land and stuff."
#SOTU #Snark
9 Likes, 2 Retweets
49) Trump: "It's now my goal to be so boring, it makes Ben Stein come across like this guy..."
#SOTU #Snark
7 Likes, 3 Retweets
Totals: 2,886 Likes, 1,042 Retweets (Averages of 58.9 Likes, 21.3 Retweets)
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