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The previous POTUS made important policy announcements on Twitter first. It would be very difficult to understand what was going on without fast, consistent twe
by kevinmchugh 5y ago
The previous POTUS made important policy announcements on Twitter first. It would be very difficult to understand what was going on without fast, consistent tweets.
- egypturnash 5y agoWith slow, unreliable tweets he might have had to be filtered through normal channels, which would have meant they came out at more predictable times like “press conferences” after being discussed by the people involved in that whole process, instead of “I watched Fox and Friends and now I’m pissed off about whatever they wanted me to be angry about today”. It would have been much easier to understand things, that shit was constant chaos.
- bckr 5y agoPlease give an example of a circumstance in which this was true.
- jacobolus 5y agoTrump announced a ban on transgender soldiers via tweet like 1 day after giving a heads up to the Defense Secretary who was on vacation at the time. Nobody else in the military was prepared for the policy change and they were left scrambling. Multiple times he fired/hired senior members of his administration via twitter, including defense secretary, secretary of state, national security advisor, chief of staff, ...