Trump spent the morning tweeting about Huma Abedin, 'Rocket Man,' and airplanes

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published 2 January 2018

After returning from a holiday vacation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, President Trump woke up in the White House for the first time this year and started his day as he has so many others: by tweeting. Before the clock struck 9 a.m. on the East Coast, the president had already opined on a wide variety of subjects, beginning with the hypothetical imprisonment of Hillary Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin:

He next pivoted to congratulating himself for commercial airplane safety, despite the fact that nobody has died flying commercially in the U.S. since 2009.

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As is often the case, the president's tweets probably did not occur to him without some mental nudging: Media Matters' Matthew Gertz points out that the subjects of Trump's Tuesday morning tweets are suspiciously similar to that of a certain cable network's morning programming.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.