Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin Spar On Twitter

Picture it, America, 2020: it is the middle of the night during a global pandemic. America has, by far, the most COVID-19 cases and deaths of any other country in the world. The economy is off the rails and 30 million Americans suddenly find themselves out of work. The news is full of stories of previously employed folks now choosing between paying rent or eating and buying medicine. Amidst this backdrop, the Treasury Secretary of the United States Steven Mnuchin gets into a Twitter spat with one Axl Rose.

It happened folks. See thread from this AP reporter below:

Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves

Now deleted and tweeted again, this time with the flag of the United States of America (🇺🇸) rather than Liberia (🇱🇷). pic.twitter.com/Af6wj8W9gF

— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) May 7, 2020

America's own Treasury Secretary used the wrong flag to dunk on Axl. You cannot make this stuff up!

Axl has done way more for America (and probably Liberia!) than Mnuchin could ever hope to achieve! Think of all the happiness Axl has brought us with his music. Our lives would not be the same without Appetite for Destruction. You know I'm right on that point.

There was no context to Axl's original Tweet. My guess is he was watching news coverage of America circling the drain and felt compelled to speak. Axl does not tweet all that often. Still he has no problem blasting the Trump Administration when he does find time to jump on social media.

Axl Rose didn't tag Mnuchin in his tweet, and Mnuchin doesn't follow Axl, so in the middle of a pandemic the Treasury Secretary is apparently spending time searching for his mentions.

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) May 7, 2020

Here's one more tweet about this for my friends who are news geeks like myself. I chuckled pretty hard at this one. This is peak Twitter - two memes in one!

Funny thing is, I actually predicted the Axl Rose v. Mnuchin twitter beef.

🤷 Wanna know how? 🤷

I forecast it using a cubic polynomial.

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— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 7, 2020

Comments

[Him]

I say, live and let live (see what I did there?).

[Mike]

Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis released a new song yesterday.
It's quite good. Look it up, song is called "Let You Down"

[Gary]

RIP Brian Howe. The 2 albums you did (and mostly wrote) with Bad Co. kicked serious ass.

[JCD]

I'd hardly call a one sentence reply to a one sentence accusation a spat. Maybe it is, I've never lived in social media world. I think maybe the rules are different there.

[GNR]

The United States by far also leads in testing numbers and recovered numbers. You know... some positive numbers.

[Gary]

@JCD. Here I thought I was the last person on the planet with zero social media presence. Lol

[JCD]

Gary....it's not for me. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever the new things are. All my friends tell me to get on Instagram and I tell I might, but I won't. I barely remember to keep my cellphone charged because I use it so infrequently.

[Metaboy!]

Not very savvy of Mnuchin, running the wrong flag up the flagpole!!

[Him]

JCD and Gary, can I join your club? Proudly social media nada since . . . well, whenever. Just ask Jeeves.

And agree with you about Howe, Gary. Not exactly classic Bad Co. But it sure was good. Read an interview with him a few years ago. Sounds like they were a listless lot without Rodgers. And, up until a few years ago, Howe was doing a pretty good job of covering his own songs on the farm circuit. If he had come near me, I would have gone to see him.

There are some other comments on here that I am not going to touch with 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (love your charm, Mr. Crowe!). Get in the ring? Nah. I like it outside, in my seat.

[Gary]

@Him and JCD I tell everyone who pesters me about getting any of the “Big 4” social media giants that I’m thinking of starting an “anti-social media” movement instead. 8-)

[Jack T Ripper]

Never met Mnuchin, but met Rose on 2 different occasions. A complete DOUCHE NOZZLE!!!! Anything that RUBBA has to say means 💩!!!!!

[Bkallday]

Yeah, I hear that JCD. Some of us can get friends and dates without having to post every single thing about our pathetic lives, on our social media pages. Me, me.... look at me, over here y’all!!! It’s called not getting enough attention in ur normal life. Lmao

[GNR]

I'm not a facebooker here either. I do however have a private instagram for me and the wife. So we have a timeline of concerts we attended or nights out. Puts it into a nice organized space vs. the mess my gallery is in my phone or printed photo albums of days gone by.

[JCD]

Hey guys, if you really want to know more about me, check out my newly updated Myspace page.

[Him]

JCD, Justin Timberlake--THE Justin Timberlake!!!!--is following you on MySpace! Goody!! Made me laugh. Thanks.

Gotta agree with you, Bkallday. I don't get the attraction. Well, scratch that. I do get some of it. You can stay in touch with people. That's cool. But it strikes me as often being a collage of a veneer of a real life. I have friends that use it, obviously. When I look at what they are looking at I just scratch my head.

GNR, you seem to have the right idea about how to use Instagram. It is for you and yours. Makes perfect sense.

Gary, what will you call it? Please tell. Meanwhile, I am going to check my rocketmail account on WebCrawler, once I find my damn AOLOnline CD!

[JCD]

Wow.. I just went on Myspace after your post HIM and saw that there are several JCD's on there, however none of them are me. I've never had a Myspace account either. My online social media presence has been in the Witness Protection Program since social media was a thing.

[Bkallday]

Haha, me and you both, JCD. My business is my business and I prefer to keep it like that! If I wanna keep in touch with someone, I’ll text em.

[JCD]

I prefer hash browns to hash tags any day.

[Him]

Geesh, Bkallday. No love at all? I thought we were forging a friendship these days. But you blank me even when I agree with you. Please text me. LOL.

Hash browns, JCD, have the benefit of being good. If I want to watch a cat video . . . wait. I don't want to watch a cat video, or see a photo-shopped and filtered picture of someone I barely know eating nachos in Cancun. I am also partial to tater tots.

Okay, back to Second Life. I love it there, save for all those weird flying things that look like . . . oh, forget it.

[JCD]

Bkallday, Him, Gary, GNR...we could form a non-social media club of sorts but I don't know how we'd keep in touch. I'll get you guys the number of the pay phone that's nearest to me. Can you imagine the viruses and illness we used to pick up on those things. Our immune systems were always on high alert back then. Maybe that's the key, the only social diseases we had back then were that of a sexual nature.