It's not a new idea that Trump's tweets are used to distract the public from his awful policies.
It's also not a new idea that Trump's tweets distract from specific policies. Consider this Mashable article.

There's been a lot of talk from the farther left that Trump is a symptom and not the disease. That he is simply the next step in this unfortunate reality we face, an in your face representation of what this country has devolved into and that we should not focus on him like the democratic party is doing but on the bigger picture.

Donald Trump has never been accused of over-modesty. His recent Tweet that he’s a “very stable genius,” however, seems over-the-top — batshit crazy, even for him.

Strangely, and for once, he’s actually right. Some very smart, shrewd people — Nobel Prize-winners, certified geniuses — agree with him. Read on, and here’s why they may be right.

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“Behind every fortune lies a crime,” (and a lawyer)

In its 1983 obituary, the New York Times began with a telling anecdote about the recently passed Meyer Lansky:

December 28, 2017. Cleveland is in a deep freeze. It seems to have come about a month early this winter. The weather service forecasts the cold spell to run for at least another week. I am driving through icy, slushy streets. But it's mostly sunny, though by the rays of a low-arching winter sun. I see one car that looks like it has just been washed. The rest have a road salt glaze.

Leading Democrats have found another reason to praise Donald Trump.

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