Wasn’t Obama forced to give up his cellphone when he was inaugurated? Now I just wonder why that rule no longer applies to His Ass-Holeyness?
I wonder what the Secret Service will have to say about this.
So, no need for a press secretary I guess?
Would you let your lawyer negotiate a messy divorce settlement, one with large sums of money, homes, cars, businesses, children, alimony, etc at stake, 140 characters at a time? No? Why in the hell is it OK for a President to presume it’ll work in shaping and maintaining peaceful, beneficial relationships with vast, nuclear armed nation-states? WTF?
“I think that his use of social media in particular … is gonna be something that’s never been seen before,” he said in an interview with Rhode Island news station WPRI published Monday. “He has this direct pipeline in the American people, where he can talk back and forth.”
Rump is NOT looking to have a discussion. He bleats out these tweets with total disregard as to how they’re interpreted. Whether it’s a beauty queen or an entire foreign nation, he uses Twitter as the mouthpiece for his NPD.
@joriep I think that’s a good point. Rump isn’t going to have news conferences, he’ll tweet constantly and do periodic YouTube videos. Given that, why not just send Conway out there to explain the latest outrage? Why have an extra position?
I was just hopping on to say that…it was a big GDed deal to take away Obama’s blackberry. Secret Service, hacking and all that…you know, the crap the GOP harped on with Hillary but could never prove.
I wasn’t expecting restraint, Sean, thanks anyway. Lack of restraint is kind of a hallmark of crazy people.
The world was gloomy before I won - there was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10% and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2016
I wonder what Twitter, the company, thinks about this. Are they looking to figure out how to make money? Are they appalled and thinking about deleting Trump’s account? Do they think they have partial liability here? If I were Twitter, I would be questioning whether any world leader should be using my platform for whatever reason.
The price of gas is also up 10%.
That’s a bad thing, and by definition Obama’s fault, and also Hillary’s, except in that if it’s good for the oil business it’s a good thing and Trump gets the credit. Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, innit, eh? Beautiful plumage.
They might want to ask their general counsel to look into their potential liability if the SOB’s tweets get someone killed or start a war.
So many things wrong with this article.
Trump’s Twitter use will be a “really exciting part of the job” because he’s farmed everything else to Pence.
Trump has to be the only person in the world to whom a 140-character belch would constitute a missive.
He can put his thoughts out and hear what they’re thinking assumes facts not in evidence.
Only two remedies: For people to get so bored with his twittings that they ignore them; or to get him out of office. Well, maybe the two are the same.
“I think that [Trump's] use of social media in particular … is gonna be something that’s never been seen before,” [press secretary–elect Sean Spicer] said in an interview with Rhode Island news station WPRI published Monday.
Maybe for good reason.
I doubt there is anybody on this site who would presume that Trump has any interest in shaping and maintaining peaceful, beneficial relationships with vast, nuclear armed nation-states. Remember, Agent Orange is the one who said “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.” That peace talk didn’t even take the full allotment of characters.
How unpresidential.
And any lawyer worth his or her fee would not permit a client to Tweet or Facebook during a divorce. So maybe his orangeness will do himself in through this.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. What an ass.
How will you be able to tell if his phone is hacked?
“World peace is our #1 priority. Make love, not war”
“Nuclear disarmament is a GOOD thing. I plan to reduce the number of ready bombs by 30%”
“Global warming is the greatest threat in human history. The new Bannon Trump Foundation for Global Climate Security” will take a lead in finding ways to reduce greenhouse gases"
The Secret Service is going to take a back seat to his private security force, the guys who’ll remain to protect him and who’ll throw protesters out of meetings.