TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal agency that administers the nation’s presidential libraries criticized a viral tweet sent by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum that appeared to poke fun at President Trump and his decision to fire James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director.
The tweet, posted Tuesday, sought to snidely distinguish between Mr. Trump’s decision to dismiss the person leading an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and President Richard M. Nixon’s decision in 1973 to accept the resignations of the attorney general and deputy attorney general, who had refused to fire the prosecutor investigating Nixon.
‘FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian,’ the post said.
By Wednesday night, the message, which some saw as a bizarre jab at Mr. Trump, had been retweeted more than 38,000 times and liked more than 53,000 times. It had not been deleted…
The Park Service apologized for having retweeted that post and one other, after stopping its Twitter activity altogether for several hours.”
-Matt Stevens, “Nixon Library Tweet That Trolled Trump Was Inappropriate, Officials Say,” The New York Times online, May 11, 2017