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Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: ‘Delete Your Account’ | Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: ‘Delete Your Account’ |
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Look, we don’t want to write about every presidential campaign tweet that teeters on the brink of the absurd like a fun-house mirror revealing the political Frankentheater that the entire electorate has collaborated to create, whether actively or by submission. | |
We’d never get anything else done. But O.K., fine, this one could use some explanation. | We’d never get anything else done. But O.K., fine, this one could use some explanation. |
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, was responding to a tweet from Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee: | Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, was responding to a tweet from Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee: |
Mrs. Clinton’s missive quickly became one of the most widely shared tweets of the 2016 campaign and was precisely the kind of tweet that political junkies, and anyone else checking Twitter for a midday distraction, thirsts for in the middle of the afternoon when they’d prefer to think about something other than work. | Mrs. Clinton’s missive quickly became one of the most widely shared tweets of the 2016 campaign and was precisely the kind of tweet that political junkies, and anyone else checking Twitter for a midday distraction, thirsts for in the middle of the afternoon when they’d prefer to think about something other than work. |
But it’s worth noting, to the unfamiliar, that “Delete your account” was not a sudden turn of phrase by a coldblooded social media manager, let alone the candidate herself. The three-word phrase has a long history as a dismissive rejoinder, especially on Twitter. | |
It translates roughly as “Your tweet or opinion is so bad that you should be immediately disqualified from further participation on the platform.” | It translates roughly as “Your tweet or opinion is so bad that you should be immediately disqualified from further participation on the platform.” |
Other political figures quickly jumped on board. | |
Mrs. Clinton has not always been totally hip, jiggy and on fleek with the cool kids. She was widely panned for a tweet in August that struck some watchers as a tad too pandering. | Mrs. Clinton has not always been totally hip, jiggy and on fleek with the cool kids. She was widely panned for a tweet in August that struck some watchers as a tad too pandering. |
There. Now you understand politics again. | There. Now you understand politics again. |