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Paul Owen in New York

Easy D? Trump's bizarre tweet is anything but simple to decode

Easy D
‘WTF is this about? What is Easy D? Straight Outta Nordstroms?’ Photograph: Karin Lau / Alamy/Alamy

Much of America and the world awaits each of Donald Trump’s tweets with increasing anxiety, as he uses them to systematically undermine the separation of powers, attack companies he believes have damaged his family’s interests, and decree that any bad news about him is a lie (and that’s just in the past two days). Perhaps then, some on Twitter could be forgiven for taking a bit of time out on Wednesday to point and laugh at one of the more bizarre pronouncements to come from the White House pulpit since Trump took office.

Trump may have been referring to what he thinks should be an “easy D-cision” by the court currently deciding whether to keep in place a halt to his hugely controversial travel ban, which many view as xenophobic and unconstitutional. “It’s really incredible to me that we have a court case that’s going on so long,” Trump told a police conference in Washington earlier on Wednesday. “They’re interpreting things differently than probably 100% of the people in this room.”

Then again, many of his Twitter followers speculated that he may have been referring to something else.

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