Another day, another Trump tweet – except this time it was in his Twitter banner.
Former acting US attorney general Sally Yates has been testifying to a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing about her knowledge of contacts between team Trump and Russia. Not only has the US president been livetweeting, he also made a brief change to his Twitter banner to include one of his own tweets refuting collusion with Russia:
Holy cow. This is ACTUALLY DONALD TRUMP'S NEW TWITTER BANNER. pic.twitter.com/B59LT0lLZo
— Tom McKay (@thetomzone) May 9, 2017
Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is "no evidence" of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
As the Daily Beast pointed out, there are much easier ways to draw attention to a tweet: it would take a lot less time to pin a tweet to the top of your profile than to Photoshop it into a Twitter banner.
As you’d expect, there was a lot of mocking on Twitter as people noticed the change:
trump changed his twitter header to push back on the russia story, showing he's not concerned about it and its NOT A BIG DEAL AT ALL pic.twitter.com/MYzcppjEWx
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 9, 2017
Pretty weird of Trump to photoshop an old AIM away message into his twitter header pic.twitter.com/Q0Fvvzi4mY
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) May 9, 2017
Trump's new header is like when the old guy gets a convertible to convince you he's young, except instead of age it's treason.
— Susie Meister (@susie_meister) May 9, 2017
Trump has since changed his Twitter header to a picture without a badly-Photoshopped tweet.
This isn’t the first time Trump’s Twitter headers have led to mockery. The day of his inauguration, the official @POTUS Twitter account featured a photo from Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
