(CNN) Before 6:30 a.m. on the East Coast Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump had retweeted 58(!) comments mostly from accounts claiming to be firefighters -- or family members of firefighters -- praising him and attacking the International Association of Fire Fighters and their recently endorsed candidate for president Joe Biden.

The barrage of retweets -- and the hour in which they came -- suggested that Trump has Biden very much on his mind these days as the former vice president begins to tour early primary and caucus states in support of his front-running candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

"I've done more for Firefighters than this dues sucking union will ever do, and I get paid ZERO," Trump tweeted at 5:56 a.m. Wednesday morning. (Biden also gets paid ZERO for being endorsed by IAFF.) He then followed that tweet with scores of retweets -- a chorus of voices designed to show the country (and, in particular, the political media) that the rank-and-file firefighters were with him even if the leadership in Washington was supporting Biden.

The actual effects of Trump's retweeting binge were something very different than he was going for.

First off, who retweets 58 things in a 30-minute window? Especially when that window begins before 6 a.m.? Take it out of the political context. If you woke up this morning and a friend of yours had done the EXACT same thing Trump did -- post a bitter tweet about someone who scorned them and then retweeted dozens of people agreeing with their view -- you would definitely text that person or maybe even pick up the phone to ask if they were OK. Right? Now think of going on that sort of retweeting rampage when a) you are the President of the United States and b) you have almost 60 million Twitter followers.

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