Trump not expected to slow down on Twitter any time soon, press secretary says

[inanna]

Source: Bloomberg

Sun., Jan. 1, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump won’t end the onslaught of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month.

Making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will “absolutely” continue, despite earlier promises by Trump to cut back, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday on ABC’s This Week.

“You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” Spicer said.

In recent tweets alone, Trump has hinted he’d like to change decades of policy on nuclear weapons; praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin even after accusations by intelligence agencies that Russia attempted to tamper with U.S. elections; and said the United Nations is a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.”

Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/01/press-secretary-expects-trump-to-boldly-use-twitter-to-make-policy-announcements.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Twitter gets DT that thing he craves - instant attention.

He tweets something hateful and/or ignorant and he gets an immediate response. People talk for days about every tweet he makes. There's no way he's going to give that up.

[inanna]

3. "narcissistic supply"

...

Narcissistic supply is a concept introduced into psychoanalytic theory by Otto Fenichel in 1938, to describe a type of admiration, interpersonal support or sustenance drawn by an individual from his or her environment and essential to their self-esteem.[1]

The term is typically used in a negative sense, describing a pathological or excessive need for attention or admiration from codependents, or such a need in the orally fixated, that does not take into account the feelings, opinions or preferences of other people.

...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply

[smirkymonkey]

18. I think that describes it perfectly.

Every time he tweets he just shows the public what an insane, moronic fool he is. But he doesn't care. He just wants the attention, whether positive or negative.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Is that supposed to terrify us or something? nt

[ProudLib72]

4. Is it a distraction

from the truly evil things he is getting up to, or is it merely a way to stroke his ego?

tRump: "I can write a few incoherent phrases, and the country will debate every word for the next three days!"

What ever happened to taking his account away?...for good?

[mpcamb]

27. Makes one wonder "Who's minding the store" while he's getting his news on the internet.

[TygrBright]

5. We can always count on Pravda Spice to tell us what we know already... n/t

[Jacob Boehme]

6. Trumpelstiltskin issues his official pResidential photo.

[ananda]

7. We've got trouble in River City!

This spells Trouble with a capital T,
And that rhymes with P,
and that stands for Putin
and 140 characters!

[LeftInTX]

9. Hee-hee

[3catwoman3]

8. 140 characters is perfect...

...for his goldfish-like attention span.

[bdamomma]

10. twitter

his way of showing us how uneducated he is. this man/child has some deep mental issues. spicer is normalizing this crap dumbing down the office of the president. keeping the people uninformed and putting the country in jeopardy. the press is not doing its job either.

[William Seger]

11. "he gets results"

... of propping up his fragile ego, and fuck everything else.

[YOHABLO]

12. IMO, as juvenile as it may seem for a President to be tweeting all the time

it does have a tremendous impact on younger generations who 'live' a in surreal world of social media. Personally I don't tweet, nor have I ever tweeted. I find it inane.

[C Moon]

13. Fox news appears to show his tweets at the bottom of the news feed.

Crazy shit.

[Historic NY]

14. Will the SS take away his non-secure phone. Twitter is hackable....

[cstanleytech]

15. Hey I support his twitter usage.

After all if we have to suffer with him as President its only fair that those gullible enough to vote for him suffer in shame over voting for a person who has worse impulse control than a 4 year old.

[inanna]

19. Trump certainly is....

unique.

[Dave Starsky]

21. It also puts his dipshittery on record.

Not that it matters. The press will never call him out on it. But at least he can't say he never tweeted something.

[MountCleaners]

24. I agree!

Already, there are people posting their "Trumpgrets" on Twitter and a lot of them are complaining that he won't shut up.

I think the overexposure can only hurt him. He is a celebrity first, after all, and the public tends to turn against over-exposed celebrities and attention whores.

[cstanleytech]

25. Or in Trumps case someone clearly suffering from a severe mental impairment which is probably

why some of his supporters are now starting to regret their votes and I have zero sympathy for them because its been clear he had issues all through this race and yet they still voted for him so they deserve to feel guilty over their votes.
Of course alot of them wont feel any shame (such as 99.999999999% of the Republicans in the House and Senate) but then sociopaths rarely do.

[JawJaw]

16. Oh, he has a press secretary?

I thought he had replaced that middle-man nonsense with his daily tweets?

Seems good enough for the lapdog media. Why complicate things?

[C Moon]

17. This is important news.

[Fast Walker 52]

20. ooh, I can't wait until he starts a war with a tweet!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

22. NOR WILL HE get rid of his business conflicts-of-interest, nor stop insulting or threatening

people who he considers "enemies," nor stop making stupid belligerent comments about other countries and their leaders, nor will he start acting anything remotely resembling "presidential."

Not surprised by anything DT does anymore. I AM surprised however at so many people still thinking he's gonna be anything but what he has been the last two years. "Give him a chance" - for WHAT??? What's gonna be any different????

[tanyev]

23. Hail Twitler.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. He would suffer immensely

if his intellectual and creative outlets were squelched