Twitter: where Squirrel-Hair's true level of maturity reveals itself

Clearly, Mike Pence's way of responding to the grandstanding of the Hamilton cast - remaining silent for a day, and then saying in a TV interview that he wants to reassure everyone that  DJT  intends to be the president of all Americans (a bit trite, but in this case appropriately worded for the broad audience it would reach once it had been disseminated throughout print & broadcast media and the Internet) - was appropriate and classy.

As I said a few times during the campaign season, it's clear Pence is going to have to be okay with the role of clean-up man, given S-H's inability to avoid jerk behavior.

Is this going to be a pattern? S-H tweets - around the same time Pence is making his statement - that the cast ought to apologize to Pence, and that, from what he hears, the play is "overrated" (a tactic in line with his calling the flagship conservative magazine National Review "a dying paper").

And then he decides to go off on Saturday Night Live for a parody skit:

The president-elect also used his tweets Sunday to give a less-than-stellar review to the latest “Saturday Night Live” sendup of him. Alec Baldwin appeared in the late-night sketch-comedy show’s opening skit, this time playing Trump as unprepared for the task ahead. Other jokes that got big laughs poked fun at Trump’s business acumen and his campaign staff.

“I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night,” Trump tweeted. “It is a totally one-sided, biased show — nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?”

Clearly, the first thing to say about this is that he is now president-elect and that even if his petty, petulant and sometimes vaguely threatening style of tweeting served him during the campaign by appealing to the more boneheaded elements among his devotees, it's time to change his social-media style.

Clearly, the second thing to say is that, at age 70, he's not about to grow as a human being to that extent.

The third thing to say is that this is worrisome from a national-security standpoint. Leaders of adversary nations and enemy nations and jihadist organizations are all taking the measure of this president-elect from such bellowings. For that matter, so are America's allies. A pattern emerges. It becomes more clear with each tweet just what gets the guy's goat, what kinds of blips on his radar screen become the object of focus - and, by inference, effective ways to distract him.

One way to conclude this post would be to say, "knock it off, Mr. President-elect," but even if he ever got that direct message, it would have no effect.

No, the way to wrap up this post is to say to all of you in two camps - those who were giddy about him from the outset, and those who reluctantly came on board later, because both of you groups have since tried to shame and marginalize those of us who continued to point out his unfitness at the top of our lungs to the very end - that you own this guy, and we are free from the burden of defending one thing about his sorry ass.

And to those conservatives who I still respect, but have tried to implore us to "give him a chance," I say that he makes it damn near impossible to do so.