“The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!”
Mass salivation flowed on Twitter in immediate response. The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza rushed to the barricades to write, “Unhinged and bizarre response. He sounds like those whiny college kids demanding ‘safe spaces.’” Roger Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman had Lizza’s flank, tweeting, “Trump’s Hamilton tweet is a terrifying glimpse of how he could attempt to suppress free speech. It should be openly condemned, esp by GOP.” Talking Points Memo editor/publisher Josh Marshall harrumphed his rejoinder, “Let Americans be Americans; let the president whine like a baby; everyone be vigilant for when he does more than whines.” And so on from hundreds, maybe thousands, of outraged citizens.
Meanwhile, in the villainous golden lair he maintains in Trump Tower, Baby Donald laughed his best Dr. Evil laugh. Got ‘em again, he thought. Yesterday’s settlement of the Trump University lawsuit is the real news, but my Twitter incitement will dominate all else for at least 12 hours as people tweet, “How could he?”, “Oh, now he’s for safe spaces?” and “Don’t tell artists what to say or do!”
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