Twitter Trolls Trump for His Insane ‘Impenetrable Cyber Security’ Idea
‘It’s not the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, but it’s pretty close,’ Senator Lindsey Graham told ‘Meet the Press.’
REUTERS/Carlos Barria / Reuters
The Tweeter-in-Chief strikes again.
President Donald Trump wasted no time Sunday morning. Immediately after he touched down in Washington, Trump went straight for his favorite social media platform.
Trump spent the past few days in Hamburg, Germany at the G20 summit. While at the summit, the president—and his daughter Ivanka—met with the world’s leaders to discuss various foreign policies. And The Donald met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Naturally, Trump tweeted out all the progress he made at the G20.
The G 20 Summit was a great success for the U.S. - Explained that the U.S. must fix the many bad trade deals it has made. Will get done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
Trump also opened up about the peculiar Putin meeting and announced: “Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!”
I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
...We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
Even more important, was the cyber security unit partnership.
Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
...and safe. Questions were asked about why the CIA & FBI had to ask the DNC 13 times for their SERVER, and were rejected, still don't....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
...have it. Fake News said 17 intel agencies when actually 4 (had to apologize). Why did Obama do NOTHING when he had info before election?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017
As soon as the tweet-heard-round-the-world was published, the Internet was buzzing with the very obvious irony of the “impenetrable Cyber Security unit.”
Partnering with Putin on a "Cyber Security Unit" is akin to partnering with Assad on a "Chemical Weapons Unit". 2/3
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 9, 2017
Why not put @JulianAssange in charge of it? He's trusted by the public and has the CIA's best stuff anyway https://t.co/K7wFTdlC82
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 9, 2017
Can't wait until Trump announces discussions with ISIS to form an anti-beheading unit https://t.co/4VWsDkZdMA
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 9, 2017
Trump spoke with a man who kills reporters & interfered in our election to ensure Trump's victory... about forming a cyber security unit? https://t.co/rE2RBP86Fy
— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) July 9, 2017
Did anyone in the room, Russian or American, understand Cyber Security? Know how to use a search engine? How could they discuss cybersec ? https://t.co/IjtbVm8Gxg
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) July 9, 2017
On vacation and assumed everyone was making clever jokes about forming a "cyber security unit" with Putin. I just found out it's real
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) July 9, 2017
"It's not the dumbest idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close," says @LindseyGrahamSC on Trump proposed Russia/US cyber security group
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) July 9, 2017
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