The best tweets from Chuck Grassley

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley delivers a speech during the 2015 Ag Summit that took place in Des Moines on March 7.

Alex Hanson
October 13, 2015

While it will be a very serious race for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat next November, longtime U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley — the 82-year-old Republican — takes a break from politics occasionally.

Grassley’s Twitter page, which he runs himself, is filled with tweets on what he is doing outside of Washington, and often times confuses people with his punctuation and abbreviations.

Here are some of the best tweets from Grassley.

I now h v an iphone

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) February 13, 2012

Maybe the most known tweet from Grassley is the “assume dear dead” tweet from 2012:

Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 26, 2012

For awhile, Grassley was known to fire off a few tweets on accident:

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— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 4, 2012

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— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 12, 2012

He let people know his abbreviations are done for a reason:

Quit complaining abt my Twitter shorthand I know how to spell But Twitter limit is 120 characters

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 24, 2011

He live-tweeted the Pope’s visit to the White House recently:

White House furnished towels to wipe dew off chairs

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 23, 2015

Somebody fr whitehouse just chkd sound system for pope visit. The gentleman correctly counted 1to 10 and did it loudly

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 23, 2015