'Firefighters'! Trump briefly posted this 2-letter tweet and journos were ON IT

President Trump today sent a very short tweet:

The tweet was quickly deleted.

I suppose extreme brevity is one way to avoid controversial tweets, @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/4sDSL3kE4i

— Jimmy Lovaas (@jimmylovaas) May 13, 2017

Then, something happened:

https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/863448067227385856

Because “journalism” demands it, apparently:

This tweet has been deleted.

Here is a story about the concerns over POTUS deleting tweets: https://t.co/aIrIavqstp https://t.co/5rksbIsaH7

— Elizabeth Crisp (@elizabethcrisp) May 13, 2017

Trump Tweeted 'WE' and deleted it and we have so many questionshttps://t.co/TqYSyOtlgX

— Mashable News (@MashableNews) May 13, 2017

Donald Trump deleted his tweet which simply said .. we

— Laura Bicker (@BBCLBicker) May 13, 2017

And Trump says his comms team isn’t effective at getting his message out! pic.twitter.com/2iAvSJ5h1I

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 13, 2017

Maybe only proof that 1,500 people will retweet anything…. pic.twitter.com/69eSuucAnp

— Ginger Gibson (@GingerGibson) May 13, 2017

RIP Trump "We" tweet

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 13, 2017

https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/863447532600303616

The people https://t.co/LQQ4JqsC8C

— Ethan Klapper (@ethanklapper) May 13, 2017

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Cannot wait for the follow up to this POTUS tweet. Since it will likely be deleted, you should know all it read was "We" and nothing else. https://t.co/5X0xnx3b8L

— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) May 13, 2017

https://twitter.com/jordanjfrasier/status/863447120912764929
https://twitter.com/jordanjfrasier/status/863453185117212672

You get the idea. But maybe it beats the media obsessing about how many scoops of ice cream Trump gets.

Twitter has turned journos into a bunch of MySpace teens from the 2000s

— Mauty480 (@Mauty480) May 13, 2017

This is going to finally do in Trump. https://t.co/0hFmCQRqVA

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 13, 2017

https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/863458828557447170

https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/863456197386444800

So they say.