Today Trump Railed Against ‘Pathetic’ Critics, Forgetting When He Celebrated ‘Finally’ Being One

In a commencement speech given earlier today at Liberty University, Donald Trump said, “The future belongs to the dreamers, not the critics.”

He was really hard on critics, actually, and even called them “pathetic.” That’s was quite the deviation from, well, this:

With almost 1.3 million followers and rising really fast, everyone is asking me to critique things(and people). Finally, I will be a critic.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2012

“Finally,” he wrote in 2012, Twitter gave him the platform to be a “critic.” Looks like he’d wanted to be one for some time. (He did go on to use his Twitter account to be a critic of Barack Obama through his presidency, so never say that dreams don’t come true!)

Naturally, people are already pointing out the dissonance:

Donald Trump today: “Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic”.
Donald Trump in 2012: https://t.co/6Mf3FSdi7Y

— Alex Colangelo (@AlexColangelo) May 13, 2017

“The future belongs to the dreamers, not the critics.” https://t.co/FL21m35gnq

— Diamond James Karst (@jameskarst) May 13, 2017

This is too easy. https://t.co/oSvoMCHwUe

— Corbin (@iBryanGosling) May 13, 2017

Trump tweeted in June 2012: “Finally, I get to be a critic.”

You can’t make this up. https://t.co/YNLTF7PSMD

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 13, 2017

Between Trump, Sean Spicer, and Katrina Pierson, you’d think the White House would have found a way to mass delete old tweets by now to avoid this sort of contradiction.

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Lindsey: Twitter. Facebook.

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