It’s nothing more than using the Bully Pulpit, with modern-day technology, what’s the big deal?
It’s about the diginity of the twitter handle! /sarc
The American media is TERRIBLY biased.
Very, very much in the tank, for democrats.
Every single station. Every newspaper. Everyone. Except Fox and Rush Limbaugh, and even Fox was for the establishment for a long time.
Every single station.
Trump needs to keep every channel of communication. Every single one, and rely on all of it to talk with Americans directly.
All the time.
Mrs Submareener and I think his tweets are reassuring that he is still in the game.
As to what the 140 now 280 means, I think he will keep the @realdonaldtrump, plus the @POTUS one.
“...“I can put out Twitter — and it’s not 140, it’s now 280 — I can go bing bing bing.” This could mean a variety of things:
A. Donald Trump has a secret Twitter account that allows him to do 280 character tweets.
B. Trump will also use the @POTUS account, and thus a @realDonaldTrump tweet + @POTUS tweet = 280 characters....”
I like the bing, bing, bing part.
Remember when the fakestream media used to deride presidents for not using social media? Now they are kinda wishing Trump had never signed up for Twitter.
Trump uses twitter for psychological warfare. His enemies don’t know if or when he will fire off a tweet that will just *&*% them up.
I think the bing bing bing refers to this:
Okay maybe not but it made me think of that. ;)
what is so refreshing about DJT is he treats the Presidency as just a job, it’s a big serious job, but just a job. He didn’t run for ego or for the prestige.
He ain’t gonna’ use #POTUS because DJT is bigger than that.
His model is Cincinatus
Trump would tweet less if the press was nicer to him.
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Nope. Honest and nice are two different things.
Gizmodo is proving his point, the nasty liberals.
Twitter’s on pretty shaky financial ground. Trump’s popularity would be just the excuse Wall Street needs to put a bullet in it.
I like the idea of our new citizen President keeping his personal identity.
Twitter is the modern day version of FDR’s Fireside Chats!
Sorry I can't remember the source.
Usually when you see ‘warnings’ and ‘complaints’ about a Republican, it’s because he is BEING EFFECTIVE.
If you’re the media, how do you stop Trump from taking on, say William Clapper, when you don’t have a reporter to say something like “William Clapper, who was approved in a bipartisan vote 3 years ago, became the victim of president-elect Trump’s rage today, when the president said...”.
I remember something from 25 years ago, a relatively small issue, but it really GOT UNDER MY SKIN. It was when President Bush (Sr.) wanted a Capital Gains tax cut passed. Most economists, of all stripes, agreed that it was an easy thing to do to get the economy moving, and virtually revenue neutral, due to the increased investment it would bring. But to the Democrats that ran Congress it was a class-warfare issue, and Bush wasn’t going to get it, particularly in an election year.
But on CBS News, it was no longer just a “Capital Gains Tax Cut” (as in a sentence like “President Bush again pushed Congress to pass a Capital Gains Tax Cut”) - nope, Dan Rather renamed it to a “Capital Gains Tax Cut for the Wealthy”. He used THAT TERM (or maybe rich, rather than wealthy), and this young to-be Freeper was pissed and never forgot that. Obviously no one was asking to limit the tax cut to the wealthy, but since the Dems were fighting it from that angle, Dan Rather helped them out.
It was quick, it was subtle, but it was effective - Bush never got that tax cut, the economy didn’t grow (enough) or actually it did grow enough, but the media also hid that, and Bush was a one-term president.
Now if Trump wants his Capital Gains tax cut...guess what, Brian Williams doesn’t get to bracket the request with Democrat talking points.
That is why they are ANGRY AS HELL about Trump using Twitter...it is also why they keep going after Trump when he does use Twitter - their goal is to have his people feel so uncomfortable with Trump using Twitter, that they finally stop him. Not much chance of that happening...but what other choice do they have?
Yes, this is harsh, but Trump needs to find a way to get his comments scripted again.
E.g., we don’t really want him proposing a new nuclear deal with Russia in exchange for lifting the sanctions from their Crimea grab. And tweeting is fine, but he also needs some sort of informed editor to cut down on stuff like the response to John Lewis.
We are going to need less talking and more doing.
Obama has a twitter account. He was held in praise by the liberals for being “in touch” for using social media.
The fact is, the narcissist zero stopped using it so much once in office and his social media footprint faded.
the bing bing bing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_Rabbit_%26_Droop-a-Long
LET THE BIG DOG ROCK ON!