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Donald Trump Tweets Up a Storm as Democrats Debate

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Donald Trump made a calculated attempt to steal the show during Tuesday’s Democratic Debate—even though he wasn’t on stage.

The Republican frontrunner live-tweeted the debate, egging on his followers and taking shots at the Democrats, but he wasn’t too pleased by what he saw.

Here are some of Trump’s best Tweets:

On Sanders saying that “black lives matter:”

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal:

On the Democratic field:

On how bored he was:

By the end of the night, Trump had added some 60,000 Twitter followers according to analysis by Vocativ. Sanders had accumulated a further 28,000 while Clinton attracted a mere 10,000 new followers.

And in a surprise tweet Wednesday morning, Trump praised Hillary Clinton’s performance:

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