Citations:ragetweet

English citations of ragetweet

Verb: "(informal) to post a tweet in anger"

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2013 October 16, William Peacock, Esq., “'Go F Yourself and Die': Lawyers Really Shouldn't Rage Tweet”, in FindLaw‎^[1]:
One small piece of advice, however: think before you rage tweet to an account with 142,622 followers.
2016 January 26, Scott Bixby, “Clinton and Sanders face questions over experience at Democratic forum – as it happened”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:
Most of the Republican candidates seem to be ignoring tonight’s Democratic presidential forum, but Kentucky senator Rand Paul - whose libertarian-leaning ideology couldn’t be further from Sanders’ self-proclaimed socialism - is ragetweeting enough for the entire field combined: […]
2017 July 21, Matthew Brown, “God Bless Incompetence”, in The Dartmouth, volume 174, number 96, page 4:
Rather than merely distracting the media by rage-tweeting about Morning Joe, a better Donald Trump would use Fox News to cudgel his opponents in the press rather than rely on it to defend his every misstep. […] The tragedy is that a man that cannot resist the urge to rage-tweet nor muster the attention span to get through a Wall Street Journal Article committed these acts.
2017, Michael Simon, "LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks", October 2017, PC World, page 74:
While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.
2018 January 8, Paul Krugman, “The Worst and the Dumbest”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:
The president spends his mornings watching TV and rage-tweeting; he has wreaked havoc with the government’s competence and his party doesn’t want you to know if he’s a foreign agent. Yet stocks are up, the economy is growing and we haven’t gotten into any new wars.
2018 January 12, Benjamin Hart, “Trump Falsely Claims That Armed Forces Would Stop Functioning in Shutdown”, in New York—Intelligencer‎^[4]:
In a bout of Friday-morning ragetweeting (synchronized with Fox & Friends, of course), President Trump pivoted from quasi-denying his “shithole” remarks on Thursday to accusing Democrats of being willing to kneecap the U.S. armed forces by ushering in a government shutdown — which is not how any of this works.
2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 243:
Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants.

2019, James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, New York, NY: Liveright Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:
Denials or no, magic mirror time began to run longer and longer. The president's daily schedule included “Executive Time”—unstructured blocks available for TV and ragetweeting—until 11 a.m., with further such breaks in the afternoon, until the work day wrapped at 6 p.m.
2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[5]:
Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones.
2019 September 11, Brendan Morrow, “Chrissy Teigen describes the 'shock' of getting rage-tweeted by Trump: 'My heart stopped'”, in The Week‎^[6]:
Chrissy Teigen is still pretty confused about why the president of the United States decided to randomly rage-tweet about her.
2020, Mark Basquill, "Pyro President", Encore, 10 June - 16 June 2020, page 19:
America has accepted the president has the inalienable right to ragetweet whenever he chooses.
2020 August 20, James Poniewozik, “Barack Obama Dials the Volume Down and the Urgency Up”, in The New York Times‎^[7]:
The message, evidently, was loud enough. Even as Mr. Obama condemned his successor for treating the presidency as a “reality show” to sate his urges for attention and combat, President Trump seemed to prove his point with a burst of all-caps ragetweeting: […]

Noun: "(informal) a tweet posted in anger"

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2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times‎^[8]:
“Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron.
2017 December 4, Roy Edroso, “Right-Wingers Find an Accidental Shooting to Go Ballistic Over”, in The Village Voice‎^[9]:
Tucker Carlson of Fox News denounced the “shocking verdict, a frankly inexplicable verdict”; Steinle “would still be alive if we had a wall,” said Ann Coulter in one of a series of ragetweets.
2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page unknown:
The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem.
2018 March 17, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Republican who called Parkland teen a ‘skinhead lesbian’ drops out of Maine House race”, in The Washington Post‎^[10]:
Gibson had become known outside his little corner of Maine for what many say was his rage-tweet against the vocal survivors of the shooting that killed 17 in Parkland, Fla.
2018, "The Observer", "The Newseum", Arkansas Times, 26 July 2018, page 11:
Unless, that is, Donald Trump accidentally pushes the Doomsday button instead of the "bring me KFC!" button on his desk while in the grip of his next ALL CAPS RAGETWEET on Twitter.
2018 December 7, Jonathan Chait, “Tillerson, Who Privately Called Trump ‘Moron,’ Pretty Much Confirms It in Public”, in New York—Intelligencer‎^[11]:
Would a stupid president fire off a ragetweet calling his former secretary of state “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell”? I don’t think so.
2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 38:
Some donors worried that Trump would target them personally. Some worried their brands or businesses would suffer when a man with tens of millions of rabid Twitter followers turned his ire on them with his weapon of choice: ragetweets.
2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 169:
The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.
2019 January 8, James Poniewozik, “Who Paid for the Prime-Time Wall Debate? The American Viewer”, in The New York Times‎^[12]:
Instead, they made a gutless decision to put appearances or tradition or the fear of a presidential ragetweet over their responsibility to keep their audience from being misinformed, and for a partisan fizzle of a news event.
2019, Brenden Bobby, "Mad about Science: The Lord of the Rings", Keokee, 27 June 2019, page 10:
At the same time, it wasn't just a 900-page ragetweet at industrialization. It was also commentary on human ambition and power.
2019 September 6, James Poniewozik, “The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV”, in The New York Times‎^[13]:
It was a classic Trumpian ragetweet: aggrieved over a minor slight, possibly prompted by a Fox News segment, unverifiable — he has a long history of questionable tales involving someone calling him “Sir” — and nostalgic for his primetime-TV heyday.
2019, James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, unnumbered page:
After the failure of a Republican healthcare plan, his ragetweets careered from “REPEAL failing ObamaCare now” to “As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail” to advocating “full repeal” again.
2020 June 14, Rudy Canoza, “Re: "The US is re-fighting its Civil War narrative - analysis"”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh‎^[14] (Usenet):
No, his Twitter ragetweets are not "legally binding." What has been held is that they are official statements and thus public, and he may not block other Twitter users who have displeased him from seeing them.