30 days shy of Q's first posts 1 year ago, a couple of answers that tie in to today with the ellipsis countdown and the Reagan video. Was Trump asked to run for President? By Who? Ronald Reagan and @drvanderbloomen………………….

>President Donald Trump's longest ellipsis is a punctuation chasm stretching 23 dots in length. No fewer than 20 of those periods are entirely unnecessary, a waste of space, a trail of grammatical droppings appended to an otherwise ordinary ellipsis:

>While the format of that tweet indicates the words (and extended ellipsis) ought to be attributed to @drvanderbloomen, the original tweet no longer exists, or perhaps never did. In fact, it even sounds like the president. After all, Trump's ellipses come in all shapes and sizes: occasionally in twos, sometimes in threes, frequently in fours, commonly in fives. It is not unheard of to see periods lined up in rows of six, seven, or eight.

>Perhaps the least important takeaway from this is that America's 45th president, who famously brags about not reading books, could evidently not pass an elementary school grammar pop quiz. But there are far more compelling lessons if we delve into the ellipsis' ominous literary history, dating to a time when it was not just a dramatic pause but an indication of darkness, obscurity, vacantness — and even madness.