Trump Mocked After Doing a 180 on FISA in Under Two Hours. He’s Now Claiming He ‘Personally Directed the Fix’ to Unmasking.

‘The Single Most Dangerous and Irresponsible Thing the President Has Ever Tweeted’

President Trump’s early Thursday morning tweetstorm included a nonsensical response to a “Fox & Friends” segment about today’s vote on Capitol Hill to reauthorize FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Whatever your view on the decades-old law, it’s clear the president has little understanding of it, proven by the fact he did a complete turnabout in under two hours when he ranted about it on Twitter.

People on the social media platform are rightly mocking him as a result.

At 7:33 AM, after a report about the reauthorization vote this morning, Trump posted this angry tweet:

The president is of course referring to the Trump-Russia dossier, which Buzzfeed published one year ago this week. It’s the document drafted by former MI6 British spy Christopher Steele, a Russian expert, for Fusion GPS.

No part of the dossier has been publicly disproven, and much of it reportedly has been corroborated, which is why Trump is so afraid of it.

There is also no evidence Trump or his campaign were illegally surveilled, or “wiretapped,” as he grossly claimed early last year, and was unable to prove.

That said, here’s Trump’s tweet less than two hours later:

So, at 7:33 he’s against FISA, at 9:14 he’s for it.

“We need it! Get smart!” he demands. It’s unclear who he thinks he’s talking to.

New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait in response wrote, “Confused Trump Tricked by Fox News Into Opposing His Own Surveillance Bill.”

As far as the unmaking issue, there is not nor has there been an actual problem with unmasking. Unmasking is a highly-regulated act. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, in an attempt to protect Trump and his team, and falsely attack the Obama administration, alleged had been taking place for political purposes. It had not.

Here’s how some responded via Twitter: