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IronLionZion

(45,433 posts) Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:11 AM Jan 2017

Its ridiculous to say the Defense Department is trolling Trump on Twitter, Pentagon says

Link to tweet

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98ridiculous%E2%80%99-to-say-the-defense-department-is-trolling-trump-on-twitter-pentagon-says/ar-AAmhDRQ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

The suggestion that the Defense Department has posted social media messages as a form of protest to President Trump is “ridiculous,” a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters that recent messages posted on the Defense Department Twitter page are nothing out of the ordinary, and part of steady communication with the general public, active-duty troops and veterans. The question came after the Defense Department tweeted a story Wednesday about a former Iraqi refugee who enlisted in the Marine Corps after reports emerged that Trump, who was sworn in Friday, was considering an executive order seeking to halt refugee resettlement in the United States.

The tweet linked to a Defense Department news release that shared the story of Cpl. Ali J. Mohammed, who grew up in Baghdad, and moved to the United States at 16 years old after his family received numerous threats for supporting U.S. policies. He joined the Marines in November 2014.

“If you look at this, this isn’t some unique thing,” Davis said. “If you look at this, we are tweeting from the Department of Defense account a dozen or more times a day.”

I may or may not know some millennials doing social media for the Pentagon. I can't confirm or deny this.