His tweets are classic fool behavior. They are raw, ridiculous and frequently self-destructive. He takes on an icon of the official culture and he throws mud at it. The point is not the message of the tweet. It’s to symbolically upend hierarchy, to be oppositional.
.. The sad part is that so many people treat Trump’s tweets as if they are arguments when in fact they are carnival.
.. They contribute to carnival culture.
.. The first problem with today’s carnival culture is that there’s an ocean of sadism lurking just below the surface. The second is that it’s not real. It doesn’t really address the inequalities that give rise to it. It’s just combative display.
Donald Trump’s complicated relationship with technology
The incoming president has mastered Twitter, but he doesn’t do email and rarely uses a computer.
Trump’s strange analysis this week of the Russian hacking scandal — “computers have complicated lives very greatly” and “nobody knows exactly what is going on” — sounded wildly out of sync with the tech-obsessed culture that Trump has so expertly tapped into through Twitter.
.. When conservative commentator Erick Erickson wrote a column last December that pleased Trump, he wanted to send Erickson an email. So Trump scribbled a note with a black Sharpie and had his assistant make a digital scan of the note and email it to Erickson.“He’s the only one who’s ever sent me an email like that,” Erickson said, laughing. “He considers email a distraction.”.. Erickson added: “He gets his emails printed out, and he reads and annotates them and sends them back as a PDF.” Current and former aides say that is standard practice.
.. Stone said Trump is “obsessed with Twitter” and has “great instincts” because he watches TV so much and understands ratings.
.. Trump told Erickson and others that email is a problem because people waste their day on it and it only opens them up to trouble. He has talked to aides and friends about business executives who were damaged by emails at trials and other politicians, like Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have brought themselves trouble via email.
Donald Trump’s Tweet Sets Up Jet Dogfight
President-elect suggests a Boeing plane could be used as substitute for Lockheed’s F-35 combat jet
It is unusual for a president or a president-elect to publicly negotiate government procurement spending on weapons programs. Mr. Trump’s approach of negotiating via Twitter has shaken defense contractors and the complex defense bidding and procurement process. He has said he sees it as his job to try to save taxpayers money, but defense experts have said he is tackling a process that can’t be orchestrated in 140-character social media posts.
.. Mr. Trump cannot award government contracts without going through the formal competition and bidding process.
.. Pentagon officials have long said the two planes served very different roles, with the F-35 providing more radar-evading features and serving as an airborne command post. Variants of the F/A-18 are used as attack jets and to provide electronic countermeasures to protect U.S. forces.
.. The two jets have faced off to win contracts for overseas governments, with the F-35 prevailing in most of them.
.. However, Canada last month said it would order the Boeing jets after the government dropped plans launched by the previous administration to buy the F-35.
.. The Pentagon said the average cost of the model used by the Air Force has fallen to $102 million, though some budget watchdogs said this excludes some expenses such as fixing past design problems. Defense analysts estimate the F/A-18 costs $70 million to $80 million.
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