Another day, another Trump tweet – except this time it was in his Twitter banner.
Former acting US attorney general Sally Yates has been testifying to a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing about her knowledge of contacts between team Trump and Russia. Not only has the US president been livetweeting, he also made a brief change to his Twitter banner to include one of his own tweets refuting collusion with Russia:
As the Daily Beast pointed out, there are much easier ways to draw attention to a tweet: it would take a lot less time to pin a tweet to the top of your profile than to Photoshop it into a Twitter banner.
As you’d expect, there was a lot of mocking on Twitter as people noticed the change:
Trump has since changed his Twitter header to a picture without a badly-Photoshopped tweet.
This isn’t the first time Trump’s Twitter headers have led to mockery. The day of his inauguration, the official @POTUS Twitter account featured a photo from Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.