Donald Trump is clearly feeling the pressure from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation closing in — if his Twitter account is any indication, anyway. The president’s tweets have been even more screamy and unhinged than usual since the documents dropped on Friday, and Monday morning was no exception. At 5:46 a.m. (which feels important to note), Trump seemingly tweeted something he saw while watching Fox News during executive time.
“‘Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion,'” he tweeted, tagging the right-wing cable news network. “That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…”
He then followed the comma/ellipses cliffhanger with a second tweet once again pointing the finger at his former private attorney and fixer Michael Cohen (because that seems to be a strategy working out well for him).
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
….which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s – but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
Aside from the fact that the “simple private transaction” he’s referencing is his lawyer paying off a porn star to stay quiet about their allegedly “textbook generic” sexual encounter — yes, the President of the United States misspelled the word “smoking” not once, but twice.
As you can imagine, the rest of Twitter took this development completely in stride:
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/1072104410724163586
https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1072108867453095936
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1072119091983515649
Technically true. They can’t find a smocking gun. https://t.co/YkY9Fiwkgc
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 10, 2018
I was entirely against our president until he tweeted the phrase “Smocking Gun” twice this morning.
— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) December 10, 2018
When you wake up, hop on Twitter, and see #SmockingGun is trending because Trump misspelled smoking twice in one tweet. pic.twitter.com/8thhfa0nBA
— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) December 10, 2018
Giving prosecutors a smocking gun, if you will https://t.co/sUUEF83XLm
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) December 10, 2018
Grammar quirk from POTUS: the “ck” use in long O words that just take just a “k”.
Here he twice writes “Smocking” gun. And in 2016, he called Sen. Marco Rubio a “chocker” instead of a “choker” https://t.co/vMa1DF5dJx
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) December 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1072098309895057408
“Smocking gun”. Did orange dumbass smock another bong of stupidity? https://t.co/o5giToctDK
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) December 10, 2018
I always hope that it's a parody account, and it never is. #sad #SmockingGun https://t.co/7qNpRoEmR8
— Jessica Calla (@jess_calla) December 10, 2018
SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK!#SmockingGun #CalvinAndHobbes pic.twitter.com/JxjhJx0XkD
— MooMoo 🌻 (@fredvegasbass) December 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/theheatherhogan/status/1072118144049782784
Not for nothing, but the word “smockin” has a root in meme culture, typically used next to a photo of Jim Carrey’s weird looking stunt double from the set of The Mask. What a world we live in.