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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:26 PM Nov 2018

Ex-Trump Aide Reveals How President Dictates His Tweets: 'Meticulous' With Punctuation


by Aidan McLaughlin | Nov 26th, 2018, 10:46 am

A former White House aide dished on how exactly President Donald Trump crafts his frequently confounding tweets, in an interview with Axios on HBO.

Cliff Sims, who previously served in the White House communications office until leaving in May, explained to Mike Allen and Jonathan Swan what it’s like when Trump dictates tweets to his aides. “He’s meticulous with not just the words that he wants to use but the punctuation,” Sims said. “So he’ll say, you know, ‘Jonathan Swan at Axios is an awful terrible reporter dash dash capital S capital A capital D exclamation point.'”

Sims added that he believes Trump knows the power of his social media posting — particularly the quote-tweeting it spawns:

“I do think that he’s very cognizant of the power that he has to set the media narrative,” Sims said. “I have seen him talk about something that he wants to tweet, ultimately tweeting whatever that thing is, within literally a minute, reporters are now retweeting his tweet with their own comments on top of it.”

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Ex-Trump Aide Reveals How President Dictates His Tweets: 'Meticulous' With Punctuation (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
No doubt he knows what he's doing. elleng Nov 2018 #1
Takes minimal IQ to take a hammer, smash it against a piece of glass, and NOTICE that the glass Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #2
+++++!!! nt SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #4
He knows about projecting an image and controlling the narrative marylandblue Nov 2018 #7
Garbage in, garbage out, as we say in computer programming. I wonder where he's .... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #3
The press reports on his tweets but not those of other deranged morons underpants Nov 2018 #5
Really. I have a question, then DFW Nov 2018 #6
Lots of questions gratuitous Nov 2018 #9
They have been bleeding personnel like a stuck pig already DFW Nov 2018 #10
Fuck that shit. Blue Owl Nov 2018 #8

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
2. Takes minimal IQ to take a hammer, smash it against a piece of glass, and NOTICE that the glass
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:32 PM
Nov 2018

breaks.

Repeating this does not mean you have a high IQ.

NOTICING that if you say and do the most vile racist things, that these people over here will cheer you on, takes very little brains.

People give this piece of shit credit for this stuff. He deserves little credit, he is a dumb man. He knows NOTHING about business which is why he has lost billions and owes billions.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
7. He knows about projecting an image and controlling the narrative
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 03:28 PM
Nov 2018

It's his one true talent. Apparently, for the media and about 40% of the public, that's all he needs to know.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
3. Garbage in, garbage out, as we say in computer programming. I wonder where he's ....
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:33 PM
Nov 2018

honed and fine tuning all of his lying, eh? I guess going through multiple bankruptcies and failing to get any financing from US based banks after a certain point, he had to fine tune his lying to get anything any longer.

DFW

(54,047 posts)
6. Really. I have a question, then
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 03:01 PM
Nov 2018

If he is so "meticulous" about what he tweets, then how come after a year we no clue what a covfefe is?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
9. Lots of questions
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 03:32 PM
Nov 2018

Who's the luckless staffer who has to tap out Trump's 4 a.m. tweets? How many people have access to and get their hands on the unsecured phone that Trump uses for his tweets? Is anyone in the administration concerned about security? Is there nobody in the White House who can make Trump give a flying fig about his unsecured device?

I hope that service in the Trump administration is career death for everyone who works there.

DFW

(54,047 posts)
10. They have been bleeding personnel like a stuck pig already
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 03:36 PM
Nov 2018

Their turnover has surpassed that of an all night fast food joint in a high crime area.

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