Silent

Trump goes silent on Twitter

By Nolan D. McCaskill

By this time Monday, Trump had declared to his millions of Twitter followers, “WE WILL FINALLY TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” At a rally in Iowa just hours ahead of caucusing, he predicted a “tremendous victory.”

But in the end he was 2016's first big loser, 4 percentage points behind Cruz and just 1 point ahead of Marco Rubio, who tied Trump with seven delegates. And his Twitter feed, which boasts more than 30,000 tweets broadcast to his nearly 6 million followers, has been quiet for more than 14 hours.

As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, the political outsider known for speaking his mind hasn’t had anything to say since the caucuses concluded. The bombastic billionaire hasn’t cast a single retweet or made mention of a poll, called on voters to “Make America Great Again,” given a heads-up for TV appearances or an upcoming rally, or even thrown an attack or insult at the media. Trump’s last tweet encouraged Iowans to caucus and was sent Monday at 7:34 p.m.