‘Oh God’: Twitter Reacts to Trump’s New Twitter Profile Header After Russia Hearing

President Trump has a new Twitter header, and it features one of his own tweets today touting a comment from James Clapper at today’s Russia hearing:

Twitter is currently having a field day:

oh god, the banner pic.twitter.com/hwu4s79dLI

— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) May 9, 2017

"Getting a staffer to Photoshop your tweet denying collusion with Russia into your banner image" is untold levels of Not Mad pic.twitter.com/M2kUZkkG2W

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 9, 2017

this looks like a photoshopped joke but no, it's real, the leader of the free world did the most manual self-RT – the banner pic quote tweet pic.twitter.com/WV1j8yl7GE

— Mark Berman (@markberman) May 9, 2017

Nothing says "completely innocent" like changing your Twitter banner photo to say "'no evidence' of collusion" pic.twitter.com/NKYbylOGrK

— Tom McKay (@thetomzone) May 9, 2017

The "mission accomplished" banner of Twitter headers pic.twitter.com/tSuObDDOSl

— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) May 9, 2017

I wonder what Twitter thinks about @realDonaldTrump putting its logo in his header pic.twitter.com/bXkMVYYeU0

— Farhad Manjoo ? (@fmanjoo) May 9, 2017

This header photo is the most presidential header photo on Twitter: pic.twitter.com/3gBHXO7BGE

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) May 9, 2017

Nothing says "I'm innocent! Innocent I tell ya!" like changing your Twitter header to say "I'm innocent! Innocent I tell ya!" pic.twitter.com/hyWM09B4Jb

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) May 9, 2017

Wow this is insane. pic.twitter.com/hnAf1JD454

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) May 9, 2017

Earlier tonight, Trump also tweeted that Sally Yates made the media “unhappy” because, he claimed, she didn’t reveal anything new. She did confirm she warned Michael Flynn was vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

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