> The federal government, in its three branches, accepts as fact that the President issues official edicts through Twitter. Sure, but pretty much everybody in

> The federal government, in its three branches, accepts as fact that the President issues official edicts through Twitter. Sure, but pretty much everybody in the world accepts as fact that he uses it to issue random nonsense as well. Surely you don't need examples of this. Which comes back to my question: would you take real-life, consequential action based solely on a Trump tweet or would you look for verification elsewhere first?