Trump returned to Twitter by posting his mug shot. It was inevitable—and still shocking.

Users He’s Back. You Know Who. You Know Where. On Trump’s inevitable return to Twitter, and why it still managed to shock. Former President Donald Trump after being booked at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On the day that Donald Trump left office, we still didn’t know what would become of him. For my part, I wrote about why I thought, if he even wanted to, he could never go back up the escalator of Trump Tower to his old life. We’d seen too much, I argued: We have spent years being battered over the head with who Trump really is. It is so obvious that this guy doesn’t deserve all the things that he has. And sure, everyone knew the system was rigged. But seeing that it’s this rigged is too much—enough to make you want to do something about it. Which is why I would venture that after leaving the presidency, Trump will have to answer for things that he would never have had to answer for before he became the most powerful person in the world. He can’t just wriggle out of it. Too many eyes are on him now. At that point
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