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Twitter reacts to leaked image of this tragic bookshelf in Trump's White House library.
When he's not too busy dismantling democracy, the President of the United States just keeps giving us easy ways to troll him. An insider leaked a photo of a bookshelf in the White House's Old State Department Library to MSNBC's Chris Hayes and it's gone viral on Twitter. You can see why. The mostly-empty bookshelf is basically the perfect, tragic metaphor for our current administration:
A contact sends along a picture of a bookcase in what's called the Old State Department Library in the EEOB. It's the first thing you see pic.twitter.com/o4hNMkyDJr
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 26, 2017
Notice the books.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 26, 2017
"Notice the books," he wrote, ominously. Let's take a closer look:
To start with, there are eight books on this shelf, some of them duplicate copies, so realistically there are five books on this shelf. We haven't seen this much empty space since Trump's inauguration. Also, ICYMI: every single one of these books was written either by or about Donald Trump.
As many have been quick to point out:
Not fake news: Donald Trump does not read books
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) January 25, 2017
This would not be shocking given that Trump seems to hate words (unless they're praising him), facts (which many books contain) and spines (he doesn't have one).
Twitter had a lot to say about it—in fact, if you printed out the tweets about this bookshelf, you could probably fill up the bookshelf:
Is fascism supposed to look this desperate and sad? https://t.co/2n1HYbY8Kn
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 26, 2017
@santapauli1980 @chrislhayes I doubt he understands that the Midas Touch was a curse, not a gift.
— Natalie Drozda (@DrozdaNatalie) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes "I like reading books. This is one that just came out."
— Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes Doesn't look like anything to me.
— Evan (@TwoSeamGripe) January 26, 2017
It's 2019. All books w/o Trump's face have been burned. Lean back against the shelf: a lair opens...@chrislhayes https://t.co/o4U326kw09
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes it’s the best books, with all the best words.
— Tempest Devyne (@tempestdevyne) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes There are more books in there than Trump has read in his lifetime.
— R. Magnusson (@rymagnusson) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes This must be where they store all of the books that Trump has ever read
— georganna price (@gpmominoh) January 26, 2017
@gpmominoh @chrislhayes I'm not even certain he's read those.
— Cheryl Weiss (@cheryllynnweiss) January 26, 2017
@thedealwithalex lol pretty sure this is a dystopian nightmare right?
— Evan (@TwoSeamGripe) January 26, 2017
Yes, it is, lol.
@chrislhayes They had to move the merchandise from the closed casino gift shops somewhere.
— (((Chandra Steele))) (@ChanSteele) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes MILLIONS OF BOOKS! THE MOST BOOKS IN A LIBRARY EVER PERIOD!
— Matt Dannevik 👹 (@DejayMattyD) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes a nice preview of what his presidential library will be like and if taxpayer money wasn't funding it it'd be kind of funny
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) January 26, 2017
@chrislhayes old state department *bookstore and gift shop
— The Gregory Brothers (@gregorybrothers) January 26, 2017
@gregorybrothers @chrislhayes *grift shop
— Priya (@____priya) January 26, 2017
And, finally:
.@tomtomorrow @chrislhayes @tonyschwartz - Is it possible that Trump has "written" more books than he has read, during his adult life?
— Edward G. Robinson (@Post_Truth_Era) January 26, 2017
Why yes. Yes it is.