Axl Rose and Steven Mnuchin Spar On Twitter
Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 05:37AM 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:
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— 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.
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 7, 2020
🤷 Wanna know how? 🤷
I forecast it using a cubic polynomial.
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