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Related: About this forumTrump's aides have blocked him from Twitter-- BREAKING NEWS
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304573-report-trump-aides-take-away-his-personal-twitter
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Trump's aides have blocked him from Twitter-- BREAKING NEWS (Original Post)
itsrobert
Nov 2016
OP
Cha
(297,561 posts)1. Reads like the Onion.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)5. It's also in the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?_r=2
The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully and often counterproductively savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a super PAC with vengeance as its core mission.
. . .
Several advisers warned him that he risked becoming like a wild animal chasing its prey so zealously that it raced over a cliff a reminder that he could pursue his grievances and his eagerness to fling insults, but that the cost would be a plunge into an electoral abyss.
Taking away Twitter turned out to be an essential move by his press team, which deprived him of a previously unfiltered channel for his aggressions.
. . .
Several advisers warned him that he risked becoming like a wild animal chasing its prey so zealously that it raced over a cliff a reminder that he could pursue his grievances and his eagerness to fling insults, but that the cost would be a plunge into an electoral abyss.
Taking away Twitter turned out to be an essential move by his press team, which deprived him of a previously unfiltered channel for his aggressions.
Cha
(297,561 posts)11. And, President Obama just mocked him at a Rally!
I knew it wasn't.. it's just so bizarre! Thank you, Ms Toad!
ffr
Johnny2X2X
(19,108 posts)2. Nukes?
His own people can't even trust him with Twitter and they want to give him the nuclear codes? Utter insanity.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)9. Vox makes that point.
The question the reporting raises isnt whether its safe to entrust the powers of the presidency to such a man. Its how his own aides, who know better than anyone how hard it is to restrain Trump, are still justifying it to themselves.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/6/13541496/trump-final-days-twitter
Now that it is public that it has been taken away, I would be surprised if his ego didn't require him to wrest back the Twitter account. Having to have a chaparone to keep him behaving has got to be a big blow to his ego.
jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)7. Obama is having fun
He was just poking Trump about this at a rally. "If you cant be trusted with twitter, you cant handle the nuclear codes..." They are baiting the hook again...
Lindalouuu
(91 posts)12. I heard pres Obama say this.
I loved it!!!!!
tanyev
(42,601 posts)8. Maybe they gave him a phone that's rigged with a Twitter mock-up
so he thinks he's tweeting, but they're going nowhere.
Gothmog
(145,496 posts)10. They took trump's toys away
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)13. And they think this man can run our country?
still_one
(92,372 posts)14. what did they do, put him in a Hannibal Lector mask?
Mime-Is-Money
(34 posts)15. We should start a Twitter hashtag / trend
Twitter is my canvas! Why do you hate my art, Mom?!? #TweenerTrump
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)16. LOL that won't last
But it was great to see Obama talk about it at the rally
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-donald-trump-twitter_us_581fa7a8e4b0d9ce6fbcc516
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)18. New Cabinet Position? Secretary of Twitter
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)19. He's grounded from Twitter
until he can act like an adult
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)20. Can he PLEASE just have it back on election night?
That is a spectacle that I, nay, our NATION needs to witness.
Hekate
(90,779 posts)21. Let Trump Tweet Again!
dalton99
(781 posts)22. WTF. Dumbass should fire them - all of them - and get his phone back.