Trump contradictory tweets on March necessitate Dr. Bornstein diagnosis

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Women’s March on Washington draws record crowds in DC and around the world

Marches are rebuke to new president; draws Twitter scold from Trump

The Washington Post reported that more than 1 million people gathered in Washington and in cities around the country and the world Saturday to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inauguration of President Trump. What started as a Facebook post by a Hawaii retiree became an unprecedented international rebuke of a new president that packed cities large and small — from London to Los Angeles, Paris to Park City, Utah, Miami to Melbourne, Australia.

According to the Post, the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, who originally sought a permit for a gathering of 200,000, said Saturday that as many as half a million people participated. On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.)

The Post went on to report that many in the nation’s capital and other cities said they were inspired to join because of Trump’s divisive campaign and his disparagement of women, minorities and immigrants. In signs and shouts, they mocked what they characterized as Trump’s lewd language and sexist demeanor.

In what is becoming a familiar response to anything that he considers a slight, President Trump used Twitter to lash out at the protesters:

When it was again pointed out to the President that almost three million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than for him, Trump, rather than claiming that the vote differential was due to “massive voter fraud” as he has in the past, took a more conciliatory tone by tweeting:

 That second tweet however, was immediately taken down.

According to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, the apparent conciliatory tweet was sent by mistake saying, “President Trump’s tweet regarding the “right of people to express their views” was sent in error as it was not written by the President himself but by a staffer who was testing the idea of a kinder, gentler president and pressed the send button by mistake.”

Sources inside the White House, speaking on the condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak, told Around the Block that Spicer’s remarks were not true and that the President did indeed write the conciliatory tweet.

With that in mind, the White House team has called in Trump’s personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein for his assessment. 

According to sources, Dr. Bornstein diagnosed the President with a condition known as “extreme pre-dawn supererogatory Twitter syndrome” where, according to Dr Bornstein, "sending too many tweets before 7 am leads to tweeting things the sender doesn't really mean or believe." As such Dr. Bornstein recommended that Trump limit his tweets to no more than one between 3 am and 7 am and, to avoid the occurrence of the more common"extreme prosaic supererogatory Twitter syndrome,” no more than three per hour thereafter.