When you get shot at, return the fire. War is hell. And we are in a war. Trump gets it. Milquetoast beta-males don’t.
An alpha male typically doesn’t get into a snit and launch ad hominem attacks every time someone criticizes his policy positions. That’s more the stuff of insecure liberals.
In the overall scheme of things, a Tweet is considered a trivial response to a now trivial matter. That is, merely a remark in passing
Were it really serious, the rebuke would have been verbal
Part of the Donald’s message is that the medium is the message and Tweet is not a formal message. He is setting the Presidential tone