It’s been a wild few days—unless you’ve been getting your news from @SecPompeo, the official Twitter account for outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The republic is in crisis, but over at digital Foggy Bottom, it’s all #swagger, to use one of Pompeo’s favorite terms
Since the start of the new year, Pompeo’s Twitter account has been on a rampage, touting the accomplishments, such that they are, of his tenure at the State Department. The account has been posting between 20 and 30 tweets a day, each defending the administration’s record and invoking all the hoary hashtags of “Make America Great Again” social media: #LeadingFromTheFront, #SoMuchWinning, #StillWinning, #MaximumPressure, #AmericansFirst, #PeaceThruStrength, and, of course, #swagger. At the time I filed this column, there were about 200 such tweets.
