'Donald Trump is an Idiot,' Bernie Sanders Tweets on Saturday Afternoon

Authored by newsweek.com and submitted by ToadProphet

Senator Bernie Sanders carved out a fragment of time Saturday afternoon to call the president "an idiot."

"Donald Trump believes climate change is a hoax," Sanders wrote. "Donald Trump is an idiot."

Donald Trump believes climate change is a hoax. Donald Trump is an idiot. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 10, 2019

Sanders is an independent senator from Vermont who is once again running for president as a Democratic candidate in 2020. He lost the 2016 Democratic primary to eventual nominee Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in the general election.

President Trump in the past has called climate change a "Chinese hoax." In 2012, Trump tweeted, "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

Last fall, the president said climate change scientists had a political agenda they were following, according to a BBC report.

Earlier this year, the president said the United States is rather clean, and that it's other countries that need to clean up their act.

"Right now we're at the cleanest we've ever been and that's very important to me," Trump said. "But if we're clean, but every other place on Earth is dirty, that's not so good. ... So I want clean air, I want clean water, very important."

The tweet seemed to come out of nowhere on Saturday from Sanders, who remains among the top four Democratic contenders in every major 2020 poll. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads all recent polls, according to RealClearPolitics.com.

Sanders was campaigning in Iowa when he sent the tweet, which gained some traction and even got a reply from freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is a member of four freshmen women called "The Squad," a group of women of color with whom the president sparred just a few weeks ago.

Tlaib didn't use the words climate change, hoax or idiot, but said Trump "is intentional, which makes him a danger to our democracy and our country's future."

But he is intentional, which makes him a danger to our democracy and our country's future. #ImpeachmentInquiryNow #PresidentHemar https://t.co/yH322aHaFq — Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 10, 2019

The Twitter users who follow Sanders had partisan opinions on the senator's tweets — with many agreeing with him, and the others calling Sanders "idiot" for some of his ideas like Democratic Socialism.

Meanwhile, the president was busy on Twitter during and after the Sanders tweet, but Trump wrote about other things, not acknowledging Sanders.

Trump said that "by accident," he saw the show of comedian Bill Maher, who Trump called "wacko." He said Maher's show was full of "lies."

Got to see, by accident, wacko comedian Bill Maher’s show - So many lies. He said patients in El Paso hospital didn’t want to meet with me. Wrong! Had really great meetings with numerous patients. Said I was on vacation. Wrong! Long planned fix up of W.H., stay here rather than.. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2019

Trump tweeted about China tariffs. "Thousands of companies are leaving because of the Tariffs," the president wrote.

China wants to make a deal so badly. Thousands of companies are leaving because of the Tariffs, they must stem the flow. At the same time China may be hoping for a Democrat to win so they could continue the great ripoff of America, & the theft of hundreds of Billions of $’s! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2019

And the president took a job at the press again, saying he is fighting back against "Fake News."

drthtater on August 11st, 2019 at 01:33 UTC »

The best thing I saw on Twitter about this was someone saying, "Dude, chill. His friend just died"

Cadet-Bone-Spurs on August 10th, 2019 at 23:28 UTC »

I like how casual this headline comes across.

whynotcoldcuts on August 10th, 2019 at 23:02 UTC »

You can see the shit happening up in Alaska. There's folks in Barrow who in their lives have seen the beach go all the way out, and now it doesn't.