Trump Jumps Shark: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) May 15, 2017

Fire “nut job” FBI Director. Insinuate you did it to stonewall Russia investigation. Undermine every other person in the White House. Suffer Independent Council appointment. Meet with despot. Flee country. …And that, as they say, is just the half of it. It might have been one of the most damaging weeks for a (hyperbolic) president ever. What made it even worse is that most of it was self-inflicted.

Looking back at our Twitter feed this week, we were drawn to Trump’s reality gap and the photographic embrace of every “not normal” telegraph. Reporters rushing the Press Secretary’s office. Somodevilla’s Trump with a skirt. The tie with a mind of its own. Watergate analogies. It was all just MAD. Same with Richard Spencer’s reading tower, prison as a feel-good setting and, overseas, security and economic charades in Brazil and Peru.

— Michael Shaw

Once More, With Stealing Dept.
TIME MAGAZINE RIPS OFF MAD MAGAZINE?https://t.co/dWYykrr4tJ pic.twitter.com/bfYrj2DpUb

— MAD Magazine (@MADmagazine) May 18, 2017

#MAD not mad, actually glad. Could also see as progression. On way to total stain? https://t.co/IqZPXus8DI

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 18, 2017

Still so many questions left unanswered. Photo by the brilliant @somogettynews. 5/17 House Dem press conference. pic.twitter.com/ozgucbAIOJ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 17, 2017

What would have been seen as smug starts to read as disconnected. Embellished by TR & indiscriminate embrace of 1 more autocrat. @Reuters pic.twitter.com/y2n57kckq1

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 17, 2017

inspired use of the carving. In the people’s house, a man bedeviled by apparitions. 📷@b_smialowski #Trump #EastRoom #notnormal pic.twitter.com/AsuEwbslkw

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 19, 2017

Pool pic today for #Trump pro-police proclamation. Should be slam dunk, but cops look like unwilling props. Sinking ship? @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/8ZNzmo9ugh

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 16, 2017

Herblock in 1974 on Nixon’s tapes and a somewhat … different … Republican Party pic.twitter.com/g7N8pYJ9dm

— Eli Valley (@elivalley) May 15, 2017

More flighty tie. At this point, becoming signature for latest flap. 📷@Al_Drago @nytimes cc @Polioptics #ties pic.twitter.com/bKYbHlGiqp

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 15, 2017

It’s not the person, it’s the platform. #spicyface pic.twitter.com/EyhUnH5pPL

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 15, 2017

Reminiscent of all the talk this week about conformability, a Marine ducking President’s Marine 1 rotor wash. 📷@b_smialowski pic.twitter.com/1S9XxK0I4X

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 13, 2017

Grounded in fantasy. #RichardSpencerbookshelf 📷@philip_nyc via @Atlantic His Kampf: https://t.co/tjFhFpT3I4 pic.twitter.com/biSEONc3NH

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 16, 2017

America’s most uncomfortable subject? #prison pic.twitter.com/du4hwTchAk

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 14, 2017

Fateful fantasy of #favelas having any recourse, or “hands on,” as number of killings by #police soar. https://t.co/IcTAZ00ToF @Reuters #Rio pic.twitter.com/9zmjCPH30L

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) May 17, 2017

Ads for luxury items loom high above impoverished neighborhoods on highway to Peru’s Pacific coast. https://t.co/D9dCKMOkJ1 @RodrigoabdAbd pic.twitter.com/q3PLsyJfqf

— AP Images (@AP_Images) May 15, 2017

Photo: Rosie Gray via Twitter. Caption: About 20 or so reporters staking out Sean Spicer’s office currently, May 15, 2017