Donald Trump's Tweets are Official Statements from

[MineralMan]

The President of the United States. They are not private quips. They are not personal comments. They are the public voice of the man who is President. Anyone who attempts to make them anything else is incorrect.

In his tweets, he addresses issues that are currently active and subject to Presidential action. They are about his official business as President. They are the same as if he stood in front of a microphone and spoke them.

They are presidential remarks, just as surely as any other public statement by any President. We should take them seriously and pay attention to them, because he is speaking his mind as President.

[rock]

1. Absolutely correct

It is surprising you have to clarify the situation (for some).

[MineralMan]

2. Well, some people, like Kellyanne Conway are suggesting

that they are not important, nor really what Trump thinks. We shouldn't, you know, be talking about those tweets or considering them as Trump's official opinion.

That's just bullshit. In his tweets, we're seeing the real Donald Trump, as the name on his Twitter account states clearly. They represent exactly what, and how, he thinks.

[6000eliot]

3. If his administration believes this to be true,

then they should stop him from tweeting. It's that simple.

[MineralMan]

4. HE IS THE PRESIDENT!

Nobody can stop him from tweeting. Who do you think could do that?

[6000eliot]

6. True. But they shouldn't be telling us not to take him seriously in that case.

[Igel]

14. The OP is right.

But there are limits.

When Obama was campaigning for HRC, did anybody really think that the Executive Branch of the US government had decided, as a matter of policy, that HRC should be president? So much for any reasonable federal oversight of the electoral process, if so.

Or was he acting in some other capacity--one that would open him up to public criticism if he said the wrong thing, but nonetheless not as Commander in Chief (in which case he'd be ordering soldiers, etc., to vote a certain way) and not as the head of the executive branch?

Context matters.

The tweets are public record. It's hard to separate social media from private or public conversation. A lot of people think it's private when it's public record. It's a situation where the people in a democracy and the governmental apparatus disagree and the people lose, because the people aren't monolithic but the government is.

[Princess Turandot]

5. And they're even being retweeted by the official 'President Trump' account!

That is:

https://twitter.com/potus

[spanone]

7. These Official Presidential Statements will be chronicled in history books and studied.

Mankind will shake it's collective head.

[jberryhill]

8. That's why this account was set up:

@realpresssecbot

Link to tweet

It formats each of his tweets as a White House Press Release.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Brilliant move to set up that bot. Would be neat to see the covfefe tweet done that way. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. +1. For similar reasons public figures have a higher standard to meet to prove libel. . . . nt

[grantcart]

11. Where this gets to be fun is in the courts

Trump's lawyers just argued that it is not a travel ban and Trump tweets a few days later that the tragedy in London proves the need for a travel ban.

I can't wait until we see Trump tweet something that is used in real time before the Supreme Court.

[keithbvadu2]

12. "speaking his mind" - small talk

[bora13]

13. reasons for da tweet

1. show off to his base
2. make his opposition sick and fearful
3. show putin his progress