U.S. President Donald Trump likes to talk and he likes to tweet but his words are coming back to haunt him.
"Drain the swamp!" "Stop the leaks!" "Lock her up!" "Extreme vetting! — these gems have gained a new resonance that aptly apply to him, his actions and his appointees.
There's his documented mocking of Barack Obama for taking vacations while president, and yet Trump has hit the golf course at various resorts with his name attached nearly every weekend since his inauguration. There's the drain-the-swamp rhetoric that now sounds less like a promise to his political base and more like a reference to the quagmire he has created. He has belittled opponents for not showing respect to the FBI, then he fires FBI Director James Comey without a kind word, followed by threats to expose him. Then there are the mean-spirited chants of "lock her up" led by Trump's then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn, now himself the subject of a serious criminal investigation. "Lock him up?"
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