On Saturday evening the US President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to express his displeasure at watching Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live. Civil rights activist, Danielle Muscato, responded to his outburst swiftly with a series of passionate rebukes on the platform.
Jesus fucking Christ, @realDonaldTrump. You are the president-elect. Pick your fucking battles, man. You’re embarrassing yourself.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
What she wrote struck a chord: her tweets, dubbed ‘everything half of America is thinking’, were shared thousands and thousands of times. They made television news, started popping up on news and commentary sites and gained Muscato 50,000 new followers in less than 24 hours.
You can read Muscato’s replies in full here.
@realDonaldTrump Baldwin’s impression isn’t “Sad.” You know what’s sad? In 7 wks you’ll be responsible for 330m lives & you can’t think of
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump (cont) anything better to do than tweet abt a comedy show. You know that actual lives are at stake, right? You’re pathetic.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump This is not a joke, Donald. Don’t you have anything better to do? Are you so narcissistic that a PARODY is your priority?
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump Do you know how many children went to bed tonight without enough food to eat? Do you even care? What is *wrong* with you?!
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump No, of course you don’t know those things. You don’t even know what a “blind trust,” and you call yourself a businessman.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump You are not fooling anyone. You’re scared, and overwhelmed, and you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. And it shows
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump You think we’re all too polite, too aghast, to call you out. I see through you, Donny. I’m calling you out. You’re a joke.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump That’s why you surround yourself with gold, and beautiful women that you objectify. You know you’re a loser, so you try to
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump make yourself feel better, feel successful, authoritative, with things, and money. You are an impostor. You are a fraud.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump I’m ashamed of you. The world is ashamed. You spout NONSENSE, millions of illegal voters?! Even you don’t believe it—absurd
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump ..to distrust the media, the polls, news reporters, so that they must turn to YOU for what’s true, what’s real? There’s a
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016
@realDonaldTrump We will not allow you to trample our civil rights! We will not allow you to destroy the progress we’ve made! WE WILL RESIST
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) December 4, 2016