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-- 2016 --
December 30: To put it mildly, 2016 was a
memorable and historic year for American politics. The race between
President-elect Trump and Hillary Clinton was considered the race of a lifetime
and a rollercoaster ride that ended with a shocking upset in the minds of
politicos everywhere ...
One of the constants of the race was Trump's Twitter account, which was almost
always there to chronicle the happenings, from his battles with "Lyin' Ted,"
"Little Marco" and "Low Energy" Jeb throughout the primaries, to his heavyweight
fight and ultimate win over "Crooked Hillary" on Nov. 8.
Separated by month, the Washington Examiner has collected 76 tweets
from the president-elect ...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/2016-in-tweets-from-donald-trump/article/2610574
-- 2017 --
On Twitter: If Chicago doesn't fix the
horrible "carnage" going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from
2016), I will send in the Feds!
@realDonaldTrump
February 27: President Trump made the decision to cut back on his early morning tweets as
part of an effort to regain focus following the first month of his
administration, according to a new report.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/321479-trump-aide-says-he-stopped-tweeting-in-the-morning-because-hes-not-watching
March 8: President Donald Trump's Twitter usage is
"destroying" the credibility of the office of the President, Senate Minority
Whip Dick Durbin said Tuesday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/donald-trump-dick-durbin-twitter-cnntv/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
March 30: Vice President Biden said
Thursday that his advice for President Trump would be to grow up and stop using
his Twitter account.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/30/bidens-message-to-trump-grow-up-stop-tweeting.html
April 19: A group of liberal lawyers is suing the Justice Department and
FBI over President Trump's tweeted allegation of wiretapping ordered by
then-President Barack Obama.
American Oversight
is demanding records that support or disprove Trump's
March 4 tweet ...
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524697854/trumps-wiretap-tweets-bring-lawsuit-seeking-proof
On Twitter: We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with
Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad
for U.S. This will change.
May 30
@realDonaldTrump
On Twitter: Russian officials
must be laughing at the U.S. & how a lame excuse for why the Dems lost the
election has taken over the Fake News.
May 30
@realDonaldTrump
On Twitter: Despite the constant negative
press covfefe.
May 31
@realDonaldTrump
On Twitter: Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!
May 31
@realDonaldTrump
May 31: White House press secretary Sean
Spicer on Wednesday offered a cryptic explanation for President Trump’s
incomplete, misspelled tweet that went viral overnight.
“The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” Spicer told reporters.
The spokesman's refusal to admit Trump made a mistake prompted laughter from
members of the media at the White House.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335809-spicer-offers-cryptic-explanation-for-trump-covfefe-tweet
May 31: [Regarding Trump's penchant for
tweeting] “There is a reason for the old lawyer’s proverb — the fish got hooked
because it opened its mouth...”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/trump-twitter-russia.html?_r=0
June 1: Trump
tweeted
Wednesday night that she [Clinton] "blamed everybody but herself, refuses to
say she was a terrible candidate."
Clinton's response: "People in covfefe
houses shouldn't throw covfefe."
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530941011/clinton-says-she-was-right-about-vast-russia-conspiracy-investigations-ongoing
June 1: Within four hours, Clinton’s message
had been retweeted about 150,000 times and “liked” about 320,000 times. It
surpassed Trump’s original “covfefe” tweet, which was retweeted more than
127,000 times and “liked” more than 162,000 times when it was deleted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/01/trump-revives-insulting-crooked-hillary-nickname-on-twitter-clinton-fires-back-with-covfefe/?utm_term=.a827c186a604
The husband of White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway – and a former top
prospect to lead a Justice Department division – on Monday criticized President
Trump for bashing the DOJ’s “politically correct” revision of his original
travel ban executive order.
“These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG
get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad,” tweeted George
Conway, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Conway also tweeted a link to a Washington Post analysis speculating that the
president’s tweets could hurt the administration’s defense of the travel ban at
the Supreme Court.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/05/kellyanne-conways-husband-swipes-at-trump-on-twitter.html
June 6: Lawyers for Twitter users blocked by
President Trump after they criticized or mocked him are asking him to reverse
the moves, arguing that the Constitution bars him from blocking people on the
social media service. [see January 5 2018]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/trump-twitter-first-amendment.html
June 6: ... the Knight First Amendment
Institute, an offshoot of the larger Knight Foundation that focuses on
protecting First Amendment rights in the digital age, argued that when Trump
blocks people on Twitter, he's violating their right to free speech.
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/trumps-habit-twitter-blocking-may-violate-first-amendment/
June 17: President Trump
boasted that he can circumvent the "fake media" and go straight to the "100
million people" following him on social media.
An analysis run ... by social media firm Socialbakers estimates that Trump has
closer to 60 million actual people following him.
The world's most followed politician on Twitter is still Obama, according to
Socialbakers. The former president clocks in at nearly 91 million followers on
one Twitter account alone.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/17/technology/trump-social-media-followers/index.html
June 22:
Everything President Trump has tweeted (and what it was about) ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-everything-president-trump-has-tweeted-and-what-it-was-about-2017-htmlstory.html
July 2: [Trump's] Twitter [feeds are] the
best window we have into his psyche. So, when he tweets, we pay attention. As we
should. (The White House has even said that Trump's tweets amount to official
White House statements.)
Donald Trump ... must know ... how much his tweets steer the national media
coverage ... he could, theoretically, avoid tweeting things like he did Thursday
about a cable TV host and get a lot more coverage about the topics his White
House wants to talk about.
Why doesn't he? He can't help himself. And that's Donald Trump's problem, not
the media's.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/trump-media-coverage/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
August 7: According to
Twitter Audit, only 55 percent of Trump’s Twitter followers are real
accounts, meaning 15 million of his #MAGA followers are phony.
... last week, the president
tweeted, “Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using
Social Media (110 million people).” And yet Trump only has 35.3 million Twitter
followers and 23.8 Facebook followers, so where he got that overly inflated
number in particular remains a mystery
http://www.vogue.com/article/trump-twitter-bots-fake-accounts-nicole-mincey
August 15:
President Trump's war with CNN
went off the rails Tuesday morning after he retweeted an image of a Trump train
running over a CNN reporter, then quickly deleted it after the meme sparked
criticism as inappropriate just days after the Charlottesville violence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/after-charlottesville-trump-retweets-then-deletes-image-of-train-running-over-cnn-reporter/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.c9f71af3d921
October 11:
[Trump's close friend Thomas] Barrack, in interviews with The Washington Post,
said he has been "shocked" and "stunned" by some of the president's rhetoric and
inflammatory tweets. He disagrees with some of Trump's proposals, including his
efforts to ban immigrants from certain Muslim countries and his push for a
border wall with Mexico. He wonders why his longtime friend spends so much of
his time appealing to the fringes of American politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-better-than-this-says-thomas-barrack-trumps-loyal-whisperer/2017/10/10/067fc776-a215-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9fdd6cdd38f3
November 2: Rogue Twitter Employee Knocks
Trump Account Offline for 11 Minutes ... President Trump’s
Twitter account was taken down by a rogue employee on his or her last day of
employment Thursday, and remained offline for 11 minutes.
Twitter revealed the cause of the outage late Thursday, and said that a
review of the incident was ongoing.
The official @POTUS account, which mostly consists of retweets from @realDonaldTrump,
was unaffected.
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/donald-trump-twitter-account-down-1202605937/
September 24: Fired by Trump, Bharara fires back
From a legal perspective, Bharara said he would characterize
Trump's tweeting habits as "Unhelpful. Counterproductive. Bordering on reckless.
Not helpful to his own agenda." Adds Bharara: "Knowing what I know about how the
justice system should work, it's not something that most lawyers and certainly
most prosecutors and Justice Department officials think is a good idea for a
President of the United States."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fired-by-trump-bharara-fires-back/ar-AAsp0XC
December 2:
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that President Donald Trump's prolific
Twitter feed was yielding valuable intelligence.
"I've actually seen it help us," Pompeo told the audience at The Reagan National
Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, when asked whether Trump's Twitter
activity was making his job harder.
"I have seen things the President has put on his Twitter account actually have a
real-world impact on our capacity to understand what's going on in other places
of the world," Pompeo said.
http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/36980259/cia-director-trump-tweets-yielding-valuable-intelligence
December 2:
...former CIA Director Leon Panetta, offered a contrasting opinion, taking issue
with the President's tweets, particularly ones that some have labeled as
anti-Muslim.
"When you tweet something like that out there you don't know what the
consequences are going to be, and the consequences could be lives," Panetta said
while appearing alongside Pompeo.
"You don't just roll a grenade in the room, have things blow up, then not have a
strategy for how the hell you deal with it," Panetta later added.
http://www.fox16.com/news/politics/cia-director-trump-tweets-yielding-valuable-intelligence/873657474
December 28: the President's prolific use of Twitter continues to
complicate his administration's arguments. The court actions that mention
Trump's tweets now stretch across a wide variety of issues, including the
official handling of the dossier, immigration policy, who should run an
independent agency and First Amendment rights. In many of the cases, a judge's
ruling on the President's tweets could carve out a new area of law. In some
cases, Trump's tweets may be official statements from the President, government
lawyers have argued.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/politics/trump-tweets-legal-cases-official-statements/index.html
-- 2018 --
January 5:
Good news for Trump — Twitter won't block world leaders’ tweets
... Without mentioning President Donald Trump by
name, Twitter on Friday said it won't block or remove tweets from "world
leaders." The social media company posted a blog following pressure it's
received to remove incendiary tweets from Trump.
"Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets,
would hide important information people should be able to see and debate," the
company wrote in the
post. "It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper
necessary discussion around their words and actions. [see June 6 2017]
Public outcry over some of Trump's tweets, like
one about the size of his nuclear button being larger than that of North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has put pressure on the social media company to block
the tweets and more specifically define what kind of tweet violates its terms of
service. Twitter's
rules prohibit violence, including threats and targeted abusive behavior in
tweets.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/twitter-world-leaders-trump-tweets-326997
January 11: [Trump tweet] ... “House votes
on controversial FISA ACT today.” This is the act that may have been used, with
the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the
Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?"
Eventually, a clarification tweet appeared on Trump's page that read, in part,
that Thursday's vote "is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on
foreign land. We need it! Get smart!"
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/president-donald-trump-fisa/index.html
January 18: Rex Tillerson says his staff
prints out Donald Trump’s tweets ... The Secretary of State doesn’t have a
Twitter account, relies on printouts to know what his boss is thinking
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/18/rex-tillerson-says-his-staff-prints-out-donald-trumps-tweets/?utm_content=inf_29_3115_2&utm_source=SocialEdge&utm_campaign=influencer&tse_id=INF_ed5141d0fc7811e781c71b876dfcb7a1
January 31: Twitter let more than 1 million
users know they engaged with Russian propaganda ... The company has detected and
deleted more Russia-linked accounts, raising the total to 3,814.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911590/twitter-emails-users-russia-propaganda-accounts
March 9: A judge recommended Thursday that
President Donald Trump mute rather than block some of his critics from following
him on Twitter to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/09/judge-to-trump-muting-not-blocking-followers-may-end-suit.html
May 24: Federal Judge Rules Trump
Unconstitutionally Blocked Twitter Users
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/24/headlines/federal_judge_rules_trump_unconstitutionally_blocked_twitter_users
December 11: Trump awarded nearly $300,000
in legal fees in Daniels defamation lawsuit
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels must pay more than $290,000 to reimburse
President Donald Trump for legal fees he spent defending himself in a defamation
lawsuit she brought against him over a tweet, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-lawsuit/trump-awarded-nearly-300000-in-legal-fees-in-daniels-defamation-lawsuit-idUSKBN1OB029
December 24: Trump rants while 'all alone'
in White House on Christmas Eve
It's Christmas in America: The President is home alone in the White House,
ranting at his foes inside and outside; an administration lurching deeper into
crisis; stock markets are in free fall and the government is paralyzed by a
partial shutdown.
Donald Trump is spending the festive season as he did much of the year, sparking
chaos and raising concerns in the capital and around the world about his
impulsive behavior and boiling with frustration as he barges right up to the
limits on his power.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/24/politics/trump-christmas-chaos/index.html
-- 2019 --
January 1: How
Trump Got Bad at Twitter
Once he ruled the medium, but read his feed now and you can see something has
gone very wrong.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/01/how-trump-got-bad-at-twitter-223572
-- 2020 --
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