What did Donald Trump do today?

He had an emotional day on Twitter, even for him.

Trump sent more than 100 tweets or retweets today, many of them in a two-hour binge this morning. Even by his own standards, the rant contained a lot of raw emotion and a lot of lies, mostly aimed at proclaiming himself the only person who can restore "LAW AND ORDER" to the country he has been president of for the past three and a half years. 

Trump, who almost never uses the "like" feature on Twitter, used it today to promote a tweet supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Trump supporter who shot and killed two protestors last week in Kenosha, and injured a third.

Rittenhouse, who is too young to legally carry a weapon in Wisconsin, was part of an all-white "militia" calling itself the Kenosha Guard—though Rittenhouse, at least, was not from Kenosha. The group traveled to Kenosha to "protect" businesses from "evil thugs." 

Rittenhouse, a vocal supporter of Trump, filled his social media feeds with pictures of himself posing with guns like the one he used in Kenosha. He was apparently involved in a fight last month where he punched a teenage girl. 

As part of his re-election strategy, Trump has been actively trying to stoke tension between police and their "supporters" in so-called militias, and protestors who oppose his policies. The result has been what is known as "stochastic terrorism," where supporters of a political figure act on the message behind the words while allowing the leader to claim he's not responsible.

So what?

• Embracing violence and even murder when it's committed against political enemies is what dictators do.

• Donald Trump is responsible for what happens during Donald Trump's presidency.