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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 --        

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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!
January 24
@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

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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

June 15:
Kellyanne Conway's husband swipes at Trump on Twitter

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/

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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

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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 --

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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 --  

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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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