The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Due to his "7-11 attacks" gaffe, Donald Trump was trending on Twitter yesterday (#7Eleven), so of course I to join the fun. Here are my tweets regarding the matter, ordered from the most to least popular (all my tweets can be read here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki): 1) Trump: "Sarah Palin could very well be my running mate, b/c I mean, like, she can see a 7-Eleven from her house, so that's pretty special." #7Eleven 36 Likes, 11 Retweets 2) Trump: "Not all terrorists are 7-11 masterminds, but all 7-11 masterminds are terrorists. Period. Exclamation point. Big Gulp." #7Eleven 29 Likes, 16 Retweets 3) Trump: "I have mixed feelings about 711. It's awful about the attacks, but if I add 6 zeros, that's how much my dad loaned me." #7Eleven 31 Likes, 11 Retweets 3) Trump: "Every year on July 11th I go to a nearby convenience store, you know, 9-Eleven. Great place. Tremendous. Unbelievable." #7Eleven 32 Likes,...

So, as most everyone not living in a cave has heard by now, GOP front-runner Donald Trump committed quite the faux pas at a speech in Buffalo on Monday night, when he said this: "I wrote this out, and it's very close to my heart. Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen." Yes, Donald Trump mistook the 9/11 attacks for the convenience store 7-Eleven. Given that slip-up, expect the GOP front-runner to do similarly with regard to the following events: Event: Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling Trump: "I for one have never supported the Supreme Court's 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' ruling, and if I'm president, I'll do everything I can to overturn that highly not ethical decision." Event: Hurricane Katrina Trump: "It was a devastating, tremendously devastating storm - that Candy Cane Katrina; ...