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Absent everything else, I have to admit I find it hilarious that in four years the White House never figured out a way for the President to address the public v
by newacct583 6y ago
Absent everything else, I have to admit I find it hilarious that in four years the White House never figured out a way for the President to address the public via electronic means beyond the consumer app in his pocket.
I mean, it's a banal and boring law, but his use of Twitter was always a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act. They couldn't have set up a dumb finger server or something and written him a junky app, then mirrored it to FB/Twitter/Parler whatever?
- detaro 6y agoThey could have, but I presume getting a president to use something like that is tricky if he doesn't want to, and I get the impression that using Twitter (and not using it through something some backstabbing staffer could access) was very much the point for Trump.
- notretarded 6y agoIt's far less nuanced than that. It's the "old man shouts at cloud" meme, grumpy, lazy, old man wants to communicate to the word using methods he already knows.
- blunte 6y agoI suspect it's also about being visibly popular compared to other people on the platform. What good are "ratings" if you are the only person on a given rating system.
- spaced-out 6y agoHe also likes to retweet, probably likes to doom scroll as well. He won't get the same endorphin rushes from some boring government app.
- gwbas1c 6y agoPerhaps they set up something that hooks into Trump's account to make a record of his tweets?
- h2odragon 6y agoIf the US Government employs someone who could set up a `finger` server; they're a contractor. I dont think they even have the ability to talk to anyone who could make that into a twitter bot.
- PeterStuer 6y agoYou don't decide where you can reach your audience, they do.