Donald Trump’s Auto-da-fail

Whet Moser
5 min readMay 19, 2021
Shealah Craighead/The White House

Remember Donald Trump? Before he got tossed out of the White House, and more importantly Twitter, he ran the free world and consumed all its oxygen. Now he has to hope reporters pick up his weird, wordy missives on clip-art virtual letterhead in order to get a back-pages mention or a few RTs.

Despite his grasp on American headspace going out like a light in January, Trump nonetheless remains the shadow president of…

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Whet Moser

Freelance writer/editor in Chicago. Words in Marker, The Atlantic, COVID Tracking Project, elsewhere. Author of ‘Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis.’