Whether you’ve been riding the Trump Train all along or hashtag each and every tweet with #TheResistance, here’s something all Americans surely can agree on.
Trump in a bathrobe Twitter is the new worst Twitter
— Mike Hayes (@michaelhayes) February 6, 2017
For the love of god, please stop referencing Trump in his bathrobe. It's like punishment for something I didn't do. ?
— pjeanne (@p_jeanne97) February 6, 2017
Those decades-old photos of Donald Trump in a white bathrobe now clogging up Twitter timelines should blow over quickly, but they’re evidence that, as promised, the news media is back on the clock after an eight-year break and holding the administration to an unprecedented standard.
In a New York Times article published Sunday, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman paint a picture of the new administration settling into the White House and touch on the new president’s evening routine.
At night, Trump moves through the residence in a bathrobe, with Keith Schiller as only aide who occasionally pops up https://t.co/4sFV11e2Jo
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 6, 2017
“When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers,” they report, “he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.”
.@maggienyt @GlennThrush story is a must read. Can’t unsee image of @POTUS in bathrobe https://t.co/m9IKYN20F2
— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) February 6, 2017
Amazing details here, including (horrifyingly) a bathrobe and "17 window covering options." https://t.co/2aux1goDBR
— Ben Loehnen (@bloehnen) February 6, 2017
Just for the record, chronicling the after-hours habits of presidents is nothing new for the New York Times; you might recall the 2016 article “Obama After Dark,” which told of night owl Obama’s habit of eating exactly seven lightly salted almonds before bed.
Obama only allows himself 7 almonds per night https://t.co/PoTvuj1eh3 pic.twitter.com/ltjGycgfKd
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 2, 2016
Oh, by the way, the president himself later explained that the whole seven almonds thing was an in-joke — in other words, fake news. But that was before fake news became a serious problem. But back to Donald Trump’s bathrobe.
Eeewwwwww; last thing I wanted to envision is trump in a bathrobe https://t.co/HfHBNax4Cm
— kreative kell (@KellyAngard) February 6, 2017
So… at 6:30 pm Trump starts wandering around the White House in his bathrobe, angry-tweeting. https://t.co/PEtGduVwLQ
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/paulbradleycarr/status/828675447823097856
Trump, who spent the campaign bragging about his stamina, stops working at 6:30PM and pads around in his bathrobe https://t.co/ujbsTlQgq9
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 6, 2017
time for a poll. the bathrobe that Trump wears is 1) Pink VS terry cloth 2) Garish satin w/his initials on it 3) Obama's that he left behind
— missiongirl (@missiongirl4) February 6, 2017
The detail about Trump wearing a bathrobe so enthralled the media that Press Secretary Sean Spicer addressed it during a brief press gaggle on Air Force One Monday, saying that as far as he knew, President Trump doesn’t own a bathrobe.
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/828712608492552192
That sounded like a challenge to the fact-checkers in the media to get to work, which of course consisted of searching “Trump AND bathrobe” on Google. Again, the press caught Spicer in a lie (sort of), pulling up photographic proof that Donald Trump did indeed wear, and therefore likely own, a bathrobe sometime in the last few decades.
Cue the bathrobe photos. https://t.co/q9Wg1PSJu4
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 6, 2017
.@PressSec: "I don't think the president owns a bathrobe." pic.twitter.com/y4SqY6pKcF
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) February 6, 2017
Spicer: “I don't think the president owns a bathrobe. He definitely doesn't wear one.”
Me, after one second of Googling… pic.twitter.com/BElF4HOtYa
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) February 6, 2017
Would the press rather have had Ted Cruz in the Oval Office, having learned from the Daily Beast that he wore a paisley bathrobe in his college dorm?
Sean Spicer: "I don't think the president owns a bathrobe." (via @justinsink
Let's see, Google "Trump" "bathrobe" … OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/bnb0odcTXD
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/828715853990547456
Also, why wouldn't Donald Trump own a bathrobe? I own a bathrobe.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 6, 2017
So the White House is a no-bathrobe situation (to paraphrase @ThisShowStinks)? Consider me skeptical of that. https://t.co/OOOkIkRPpV
— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) February 6, 2017
Ok, I'm a little scared to ask, but what did Trump do in a bathrobe?
— McBlondeLand (@McBlondeLand) February 6, 2017
I mean it doesn't really matter whether or not Trump owns a bathrobe. But I have to live with the memory of this picture, so you should, too pic.twitter.com/AKUphiDy6j
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) February 6, 2017
So happy to see that my Twitter feed is now full of pictures of Trump in a *bathrobe. That's not going to haunt my nightmares or anything.
— Christina (@ckb11) February 6, 2017
Somewhere in an office near Union Station, @KFILE is frantically searching 1970s video archives for "Trump bathrobe"
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) February 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/paulbradleycarr/status/828723403804725248
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/828719920380833792
https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/828724101950930944
It’s gonna be a long week.
FWIW, NYT said the story was based on "dozens" of mostly anonymous interviews. "Trump in a bathrobe" was far from the most significant part https://t.co/o18A7gMNvm
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 6, 2017
And yet …
We're spending today arguing about whether Trump wears a bathrobe? Ok.
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) February 6, 2017
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Sen. Ted Cruz's opponents crawl back into his dorm room closet https://t.co/VnWweABmUR
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 21, 2016
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