Puh-LEEZE! Nicholas Kristof's Trump budget analogy is just a LITTLE over the top

when bad history AND bad analogy meet. https://t.co/MnSB3GCVKv

— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) March 16, 2017

A lot of Trump critics are flipping about the president’s proposed budget, but few will phrase it more dramatically than NY Times’ columnist Nicholas Kristof:

Reading through the Trump budget, I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 16, 2017

It depends on what your definition of “dark ages” is:

$54 billion out of a $1.115 TRILLION dollar budget = the dark ages. https://t.co/WI2aqudr9B

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) March 16, 2017

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/842412400024387587

Reducing the size of government by 10% is exactly the same as an encroaching horde of Vandals looting the land.

— Razor (@hale_razor) March 16, 2017

That hot take is so far over the top it you need binoculars to see it.

This makes moody teenagers crying over spoiled weekend plans seem reasonable. https://t.co/74NlkiZ4PJ

— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) March 16, 2017

It must get tiring being this over the top all the time. https://t.co/2eChpPpPyB

— Kareim Oliphant (@kareimoli) March 16, 2017

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Well, at least we're not melodramatic. https://t.co/n4P1UUcXlo

— Torrey M. Spears ?? (@torreymspears) March 16, 2017

https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/842413052238675968

I wonder if these desperate cries for attention are indicative of larger problem. https://t.co/74NlkiZ4PJ

— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) March 16, 2017