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Trump's aides have blocked him from Twitter-- BREAKING NEWS (Original Post) itsrobert Nov 2016 OP
Reads like the Onion. Cha Nov 2016 #1
It's also in the NYT Ms. Toad Nov 2016 #5
And, President Obama just mocked him at a Rally! Cha Nov 2016 #11
Nukes? Johnny2X2X Nov 2016 #2
Vox makes that point. Ms. Toad Nov 2016 #9
Obama is having fun jcgoldie Nov 2016 #7
I heard pres Obama say this. Lindalouuu Nov 2016 #12
Maybe they gave him a phone that's rigged with a Twitter mock-up tanyev Nov 2016 #8
They took trump's toys away Gothmog Nov 2016 #10
And they think this man can run our country? unitedwethrive Nov 2016 #13
what did they do, put him in a Hannibal Lector mask? still_one Nov 2016 #14
We should start a Twitter hashtag / trend Mime-Is-Money Nov 2016 #15
LOL that won't last Lucinda Nov 2016 #16
New Cabinet Position? Secretary of Twitter Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2016 #18
He's grounded from Twitter Rocknrule Nov 2016 #19
Can he PLEASE just have it back on election night? Barack_America Nov 2016 #20
Let Trump Tweet Again! Hekate Nov 2016 #21
WTF. Dumbass should fire them - all of them - and get his phone back. dalton99 Nov 2016 #22

Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)
5. It's also in the NYT
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:36 PM
Nov 2016
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.

Cha

(297,561 posts)
11. And, President Obama just mocked him at a Rally!
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:40 PM
Nov 2016


I knew it wasn't.. it's just so bizarre! Thank you, Ms Toad!



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Johnny2X2X

(19,108 posts)
2. Nukes?
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:27 PM
Nov 2016

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.
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:38 PM
Nov 2016
The question the reporting raises isn’t whether it’s safe to entrust the powers of the presidency to such a man. It’s 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
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:38 PM
Nov 2016

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...

tanyev

(42,601 posts)
8. Maybe they gave him a phone that's rigged with a Twitter mock-up
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:38 PM
Nov 2016

so he thinks he's tweeting, but they're going nowhere.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
20. Can he PLEASE just have it back on election night?
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 10:15 PM
Nov 2016

That is a spectacle that I, nay, our NATION needs to witness.

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