Hi there! Welcome back and Happy New Year. What a crazy 2017, right? Time for a fresh start and hope for a better 2018! Here's to a quieter, calmer year ahead filled with joy and hope and maybe, just maybe, a chance to reconci- 

Oh no.

Dear God no.

He's back on Twitter.

Any hope that President Trump would either abandon or at least cut back on his tweetstorms in the New Year was just wishful thinking. As he made clear over the weekend, Trump will continue to use social media as a way to circumvent "fake news," whatever that means in 2018. 

After an active weekend between golf games, Trump is back to rolling out the same formula from 2017, and 2016 before that, and 2015 before that, and so on and so forth: tweeting out criticisms of Obama, "Crooked Hillary" Clinton, another "Rocket Man" burn, and a bit of shade at the "Failing New York Times.  

He even managed a tweet that was a rare Trump Twofer, mentioning both "The Wall" and Fox & Friends in the same post. Stellar work.

But perhaps none was surreal as the president apparently taking credit for a safe 2017 in commercial aviation. 

Now, no one should ever mistake these tweetstorms as some sort of "four dimensional chess," as the media likes to call such distractions. No, this is more like a toddler just banging pots and pans and knocking over garbage cans in an effort to be as disruptive and destructive as possible.

But this absolutely ridiculous claim of credit shows that Trump is still absolutely all about puffing out his chest, even if it's over nothing.

The coming year is going to be a tough one for Trump. For starters, there are the looming midterm elections in November. And even though that seems a long way off, Democrat gains toward the end of 2017 and other poll numbers show that Trump and the GOP — who have tied themselves to Trump, sink or swim — have a big uphill battle ahead.

There's also the Robert Mueller Russia Investigation and ongoing battles in Congress that will be ratcheted up thanks to those upcoming midterms.

TL;DR, the noise will be coming from Trump fast and furious over the next 12 months with no slowing down. He's already sent 12 tweets in the first 36 hours of the year (which, if he continues to tweet at this pace, extrapolates out to roughly 2,920 tweets for the year, or around 8 tweets a day). 

So, that signal-to-noise ratio none of us have been very good with over the past several years during Trump's rise to power? Yeah, we're definitely going to need to figure that one out. 

And soon. 

It's not going to get any quieter.