Also, does Trump not get that "Thanks, Obama!" is sarcasm? So doing a parody of that with his own name sounds confusingly self-insulting?
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Replying to @emilynussbaum
I doubt he's even doing that. "Thanks Donald" just a direct literal shot of self aggrandizement.
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Replying to @yeselson
Do you not think he was doing it as a (badly structured, not parallel) riff on "Thanks, Obama!" Maybe you're right.
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Replying to @emilynussbaum
I guess that's possible, but then he might have more precisely written, "Thanks Trump!" But Ockham razor is that Trump
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Replying to @yeselson @emilynussbaum
doesn't do allusions, even illogical ones. He just mainlines narcissism.
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Replying to @yeselson @emilynussbaum
Trump has history of referring to himself in 3rd person. So by Occam's razor (or Trump's razor) not an allusion
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So odd. I was also under the impression that he didn't like being called "Donald." (Thought it set him off in Debate 1.)
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That's true -- other cases of him using 3rd person are "Trump" not "Donald." Hmmm.....
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A rare staff tweet? Staffer taking dictation (ha ha) and adding their own flourish?
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