Whether she's angling for some kind of future in politics or is simply desperate to shed her image as a wallflower, Chelsea Clinton has all of a sudden discovered that Twitter is useful for talking about more than the Angolan elephant-poaching crisis. 

Lately, the former First Child has tested out more acerbic material on Twitter. Perhaps it's just to prove there might be a personality underneath the dispassionate facade, but we're not sure it's working to convince anyone. From Politico: 

“Heartbreaking to see the elephant poaching crisis growing in Angola,” she [Chelsea] tweeted last July, days before the Republican National Convention. “Another reason water is vital,” she wrote on Aug. 8, in the heat of the general election, linking to an article about water in Peru.

Her endorsement of H2O was retweeted just 84 times — which, given her more than 1.5 million followers, meant that it was effectively ignored.

But Hillary Clinton’s devastating defeat, coupled with the rise of President Donald Trump, has coaxed out a new Chelsea: provocative, punchier, and, for virtually the first time in her life, someone angling for attention in the political fray.

“What happened in Sweden Friday night? Did they catch the Bowling Green Massacre perpetrators?” she tweeted on Feb. 19, taking aim at both the president and his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, for fabricating terrorist attacks. The sarcastic post was retweeted more than 41,000 times.

Like the rest of the characters in her mother’s orbit, Chelsea Clinton is in a moment of transition, trying to figure out whether she’ll pursue her own political career — a move she hasn’t ruled out — or find a path outside the family business. “Lots of people are riled up and dialing it up,” said longtime Hillary Clinton confidant Philippe Reines. “Not as loyalists, but as citizens. I’m guessing that’s a big part of the motivation behind what she’s saying and how she’s saying it. She just also happens to be a Clinton.”

“What’s #MAGA abt eliminating national service, legal services for poor people, support for the arts & public television? What am I missing?” Chelsea wrote in one post.  

Another Tweet read, “Is it funny sad or sad funny that our Dept. of Education misspelled the name of the great W. E. B. Du Bois?”

OK, sarcastic wit doesn't come naturally to everyone. 

But Chelsea is clearly vying for attention. Perhaps the Clinton machine is desperate to get one of their own back in the saddle, or simply to remain relevant. Whatever the case, we think she might want to stick to focusing on pachyderms and H2O reserves.