| Oh, What a [Redacted] Mornin' President Donald Trump had an active morning on Twitter, which spree included complaints about Twitter.
The day started at midnight, when Trump promoted a video on that opens with Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin declaring that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
Starting at about 7:50 a.m. his spree consisted of lots of retweets and sharing of links, including several from Gregg Jarrett on the "Russia Hoax" or bashing pandemic lockdowns.
He shared a tweet that called coronavirus masks representative of slavery, which included a link to an article arguing that mask-wearing is "critical predicate conditioning” for Americans to accept “rule by executive fiat.”
Also he teased his upcoming executive fiat against Twitter.
Eventually the United States president got around to lamenting the deaths of 100,000 Americans in the pandemic he'd spent the morning arguing against taking measures to control.
Columnist Dean Obeidallah is not impressed with Trump's priorities.
In contrast
Presumptive Dem nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden provided a vivid contrast by posting an empathetic video message on the grim 100,000 deaths milestone, then another video featuring a devastating indictment of Trump’s response to the pandemic overall.
Why can't we be friends? One day after a brutal on-air throwdown which went viral, two CNBC anchors made nice for the cameras. In the opening moments of Thursday’s Squawk Box, CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen addressed their battle from the day before. Anchor Becky Quick set up the two to make nice — cutting the tension by breaking out a prop as she threw to the bickering anchors.
Speaking of the Twitter thing
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Wednesday that Twitter is “going down a very dangerous path” and faces the possibility of becoming a “regulated, public institution,” in response to the social network placing a “fact check” on one of Trump's tweets.
Meanwhile, well-known First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams dismissed Trump's assertion that Twitter is “completely stifling” free speech with their fact-check. Trump just doesn't want his critics to "have a chance to respond," said Abrams.
A draft of the coming executive order was published on Thursday morning, and it does indeed include the possibility of punishment for social media companies deemed to be "unfair" in their practices.
Disturbing
Sean Hannity opened his show Wednesday night talking about the disturbing video of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died after a police officer pinned him down with his knee on Floyd’s neck.
“It makes no sense. No resistance that I see at all," said Hannity.
Good News
Jennie Stejna, a 103-year-old woman living in Massachusetts has survived coronavirus, and she celebrated her recovery with one of her favorite beverages: an ice-cold Bud Light.
Disapprove
President Donald Trump may have impressed Fox News’ Brit Hume by refusing to wear a mask in public, but a new poll shows that a whopping 65 percent of Americans disapprove of that decision, and even more describe themselves as “pro-mask.” 6.5.0 | 
