Since Elon Musk changed the name of “Twitter” to X, and President-elect Donald Trump mostly posts on Truth Social, his own social media platform, technically his ripostes can no longer be termed “Mean Tweets.” But thanks to his epic win on November 5, whatever we want to call them now, Mean Tweets are back on the menu.
The Wall Street Journal has been having a normal one this week. First, by dropping a thinly-sourced, concern-trolling piece that Trump may be replacing the embattled Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday.
The second drop on Wednesday morning had WSJ reporting that DEA Administrator nominee — Hillsborough, Florida, County Sheriff Chad Chronister — withdrew his nomination, a story which we covered Tuesday night. They tried to lump this in with Hegseth’s woes as an indication of trouble in Trumpworld: