depotoo
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He never said he wasn’t going to. They just all had a fit over something that was nothing.He wasn’t trying to create policy through his tweet. Some idiots declared he might be-Trump’s tweets have no legal force
Really ??
How Do You People Dream This Shit Up
Are You REALLY That Stupid ??
They don't. Trump tried to enact his transgender ban via tweet, and the military told him to go through official channels, because policy couldn't be done via tweet.
How to Spark Panic and Confusion in Three Tweets
In the instant, no one knew whether the tweets themselves had the weight of policy. The next day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that “no modifications” would be made to the existing military policy until the White House issued formal guidance on the meaning of the announcement. “In other words, the military told the commander in chief to go jump in a lake,” Charles Krauthammer wrote at the time. "Generally speaking, this is not a healthy state of affairs in a nation of civilian control.”
In the instant, no one knew whether the tweets themselves had the weight of policy
Exactly, nobody knew in that instant if Trumps tweets had the weight of policy or not. The military determined that policy couldn't be driven by tweet, which is why they told him to go through official channels to enact the transgender ban.