President Donald Trump has many prized possessions. But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed. Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed. He credited it with launching his political trajectory. And he used it as a tool to lacerate his foes.
On Friday night, he lost it. And, then, he lost his mind.
The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
So too was much of the political universe, which has become bleary-eyed obsessive about Twitter these past four years as Trump used the medium to fire advisers, sink legislative initiatives, encourage social duress and, lastly, praise the scores of MAGA faithful, just days after hundreds of them violently ransacked the Capitol.
In a statement issued by the White House, Trump said he’d been “negotiating with various other sites” while “we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.” But aides did not reveal what plans were in the works. When Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr. offered up a URL to those hoping to keep tabs of his father’s whereabouts, it was a site that had been purchased in 2009 and, in recent years, a place where his books were sold. For those who did sign up, an email was sent, plugging his latest work: “Liberal Privilege”.
“As you know, the election is coming up,” it read, of the contest that took place two months ago.
For Trump, the Twitter ban was yet another inglorious passage to the final chapter of his presidency. Over the past two days, he’s been admonished by his own aides, chastised by Republicans, and threatened once more with impeachment.
Through it all, he’s been uncharacteristically quiet — banished temporarily at first from the main social media platforms but also unwilling to go out and speak before the press. The only times the public saw him were through awkwardly-edited White House produced-videos. In one, he urged for the rioting to end while clinging to the fiction that the election had been stolen from him. In another, he conceded he would not serve a second consecutive term.
There are no plans to immediately emerge from the cocoon either. One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.
“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said. “We have a lot of accomplishments of this administration that should be highlighted so that we can leave a good final impression.”
Trump entered office boasting of how he was the “Hemingway of 140 characters” and crediting Twitter in particular for powering his political ascent. More than 56,000 tweets later, he leaves it amid a futile game of Whac-A-Mole with the tech moguls he despises, exiled to the outer provinces of the internet.
If this is how Trump’s presidency closes out, it will be a remarkable endnote. As a candidate for office, he was — at times — ubiquitous: posting outrageous takes on Twitter, calling into cable news shows, and grabbing the camera’s attention even when the podium on which he was set to hold a campaign rally was empty. Now, he’s increasingly isolated and receding from the spotlight. His favorite bullhorn is gone; oh, and the presidency is too.
Start acting out? They have and will continue to act out.
Trump tweeted; base ignited. Trump banned; base ignited.
They got no real platform. That's big. This truly is a great day for democracy.
It takes it out of the mainstream. Its a great first step.
Need to do this. Talk of assassinating or executing elected officials needs to be stopped in its tracks. That goes for everybody. Private companies need to be held responsible if they failed to moderate that. I was taught at a very young age, you never even kid about that stuff or secret service could end up at your doorstep
i watched this all go down on twitter last night and it was glorious.
he got banned from @realdonaldtrump, came back and tried to do the exact same tweets from potus account. i tried to report those tweets and as soon as i started reporting them they disappeared. the entire account disappeared. then the same tweets showed up on the campaign account, the "text 44 etc" account. tried to report those and they disappeared. a little later he tried to use the account of the campaign digital director, forgot his name. same tweets appeared on that account. the account name was changed to Donald J Trump with blue checkmark, but the @ was to the owner of the account. Cody something if i remember correctly. then those disappeared.
a little later rush limbaugh was banned. then we noticed the kraken and michael flynn gona as well.
don jr is going to get banned next is my bet.
seriously though. twitter last night was like the last 15 minutes of The Godfather.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
my comment on the matter was "operation warp speed is now basically trump creating new twitter handles and sending out tweets before twitter can catch him."
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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i watched this all go down on twitter last night and it was glorious.
he got banned from @realdonaldtrump, came back and tried to do the exact same tweets from potus account. i tried to report those tweets and as soon as i started reporting them they disappeared. the entire account disappeared. then the same tweets showed up on the campaign account, the "text 44 etc" account. tried to report those and they disappeared. a little later he tried to use the account of the campaign digital director, forgot his name. same tweets appeared on that account. the account name was changed to Donald J Trump with blue checkmark, but the @ was to the owner of the account. Cody something if i remember correctly. then those disappeared.
a little later rush limbaugh was banned. then we noticed the kraken and michael flynn gona as well.
don jr is going to get banned next is my bet.
seriously though. twitter last night was like the last 15 minutes of The Godfather.
"seriously though. twitter last night was like the last 15 minutes of The Godfather. "
Awesome!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
There are still a ton of right wing platforms out there that are massive in size. The host of those sites need to crack down on them but when they do they just pop up some wheres else. Rinse and repeat. If you look at the massive ones like thedonald.win (I will not hyperlink it since I do not want to give them traffic) They have hundreds of thousands if not millions of unique users. This is not bots. This is how they mobilized for the run at the capitol building and it was on a public page for everyone to see as long as you can pass a captcha. For people in the higher ups to act like this was a surprise attack is a joke.
i watched this all go down on twitter last night and it was glorious.
he got banned from @realdonaldtrump, came back and tried to do the exact same tweets from potus account. i tried to report those tweets and as soon as i started reporting them they disappeared. the entire account disappeared. then the same tweets showed up on the campaign account, the "text 44 etc" account. tried to report those and they disappeared. a little later he tried to use the account of the campaign digital director, forgot his name. same tweets appeared on that account. the account name was changed to Donald J Trump with blue checkmark, but the @ was to the owner of the account. Cody something if i remember correctly. then those disappeared.
a little later rush limbaugh was banned. then we noticed the kraken and michael flynn gona as well.
don jr is going to get banned next is my bet.
seriously though. twitter last night was like the last 15 minutes of The Godfather.
couldn't have said it better. I was actually taking a nap when phone notifications started blowing up. I thought to myself "could this be the day". And yes, it fucking was!
Start acting out? They have and will continue to act out.
Trump tweeted; base ignited. Trump banned; base ignited.
They got no real platform. That's big. This truly is a great day for democracy.
It takes it out of the mainstream. Its a great first step.
Need to do this. Talk of assassinating or executing elected officials needs to be stopped in its tracks. That goes for everybody. Private companies need to be held responsible if they failed to moderate that. I was taught at a very young age, you never even kid about that stuff or secret service could end up at your doorstep
There are still a ton of right wing platforms out there that are massive in size. The host of those sites need to crack down on them but when they do they just pop up some wheres else. Rinse and repeat. If you look at the massive ones like thedonald.win (I will not hyperlink it since I do not want to give them traffic) They have hundreds of thousands if not millions of unique users. This is not bots. This is how they mobilized for the run at the capitol building and it was on a public page for everyone to see as long as you can pass a captcha. For people in the higher ups to act like this was a surprise attack is a joke.
There are platforms and echo chambers but not mainstream.
The attack on congress as well as the terrorist cell in Michigan was a big wake-up call for authorities I think. Large tech companies see the writing on the wall. Violent rhetoric will be taken seriously and the platform will be found negligent as well if someone carries anything out.
Anyone looking to go operational will be detected. These are typically fat privileged Americans who think they can do or say anything, not people with no identification hiding in the mountains of waziristan.
Everyone is applauding this. All it does is ignite his base which seems to be growing more and more impatient about things.
This is bad. It’s only going to drive a wedge in deeper.
Haha.
Just fucking stop it.
You’ve got no clue.
Watch these idiots start acting out now.
i'm honestly on the fence about it. on one hand, if you cut off the ease of communication of incitement, it makes it more difficult for these schmucks to organize. but a cornered rat is more dangerous than one that roams free.
silencing people tends to enrage them. maybe they should have done something else, like had a "pause" on his tweets, so they could check them before they allowed them to be posted in case they violated the terms.
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
Everyone is applauding this. All it does is ignite his base which seems to be growing more and more impatient about things.
This is bad. It’s only going to drive a wedge in deeper.
Haha.
Just fucking stop it.
You’ve got no clue.
Watch these idiots start acting out now.
i'm honestly on the fence about it. on one hand, if you cut off the ease of communication of incitement, it makes it more difficult for these schmucks to organize. but a cornered rat is more dangerous than one that roams free.
silencing people tends to enrage them. maybe they should have done something else, like had a "pause" on his tweets, so they could check them before they allowed them to be posted in case they violated the terms.
absolutely not. He has used the platform for years to spread hate. It's like taking a junkie's smack away for a week and then expecting that person to learn how to moderate in the meantime. never gonna happen. cold turkey. and, he's never going to find a platform like Twitter again.
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Trump went 'ballistic' after being tossed off Twitter
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-went-ballistic-being-tossed-032346767.htmlPresident Donald Trump has many prized possessions. But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed. Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed. He credited it with launching his political trajectory. And he used it as a tool to lacerate his foes.
On Friday night, he lost it. And, then, he lost his mind.
The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
So too was much of the political universe, which has become bleary-eyed obsessive about Twitter these past four years as Trump used the medium to fire advisers, sink legislative initiatives, encourage social duress and, lastly, praise the scores of MAGA faithful, just days after hundreds of them violently ransacked the Capitol.
In a statement issued by the White House, Trump said he’d been “negotiating with various other sites” while “we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.” But aides did not reveal what plans were in the works. When Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr. offered up a URL to those hoping to keep tabs of his father’s whereabouts, it was a site that had been purchased in 2009 and, in recent years, a place where his books were sold. For those who did sign up, an email was sent, plugging his latest work: “Liberal Privilege”.
“As you know, the election is coming up,” it read, of the contest that took place two months ago.
For Trump, the Twitter ban was yet another inglorious passage to the final chapter of his presidency. Over the past two days, he’s been admonished by his own aides, chastised by Republicans, and threatened once more with impeachment.
Through it all, he’s been uncharacteristically quiet — banished temporarily at first from the main social media platforms but also unwilling to go out and speak before the press. The only times the public saw him were through awkwardly-edited White House produced-videos. In one, he urged for the rioting to end while clinging to the fiction that the election had been stolen from him. In another, he conceded he would not serve a second consecutive term.
There are no plans to immediately emerge from the cocoon either. One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.
“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said. “We have a lot of accomplishments of this administration that should be highlighted so that we can leave a good final impression.”
Trump entered office boasting of how he was the “Hemingway of 140 characters” and crediting Twitter in particular for powering his political ascent. More than 56,000 tweets later, he leaves it amid a futile game of Whac-A-Mole with the tech moguls he despises, exiled to the outer provinces of the internet.
If this is how Trump’s presidency closes out, it will be a remarkable endnote. As a candidate for office, he was — at times — ubiquitous: posting outrageous takes on Twitter, calling into cable news shows, and grabbing the camera’s attention even when the podium on which he was set to hold a campaign rally was empty. Now, he’s increasingly isolated and receding from the spotlight. His favorite bullhorn is gone; oh, and the presidency is too.
Watch these idiots start acting out now.
Trump tweeted; base ignited. Trump banned; base ignited.
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Need to do this. Talk of assassinating or executing elected officials needs to be stopped in its tracks. That goes for everybody. Private companies need to be held responsible if they failed to moderate that. I was taught at a very young age, you never even kid about that stuff or secret service could end up at your doorstep
he got banned from @realdonaldtrump, came back and tried to do the exact same tweets from potus account. i tried to report those tweets and as soon as i started reporting them they disappeared. the entire account disappeared. then the same tweets showed up on the campaign account, the "text 44 etc" account. tried to report those and they disappeared. a little later he tried to use the account of the campaign digital director, forgot his name. same tweets appeared on that account. the account name was changed to Donald J Trump with blue checkmark, but the @ was to the owner of the account. Cody something if i remember correctly. then those disappeared.
a little later rush limbaugh was banned. then we noticed the kraken and michael flynn gona as well.
don jr is going to get banned next is my bet.
seriously though. twitter last night was like the last 15 minutes of The Godfather.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
fuck him.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The attack on congress as well as the terrorist cell in Michigan was a big wake-up call for authorities I think. Large tech companies see the writing on the wall. Violent rhetoric will be taken seriously and the platform will be found negligent as well if someone carries anything out.
Anyone looking to go operational will be detected. These are typically fat privileged Americans who think they can do or say anything, not people with no identification hiding in the mountains of waziristan.
oh well, he did it to himself.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
hey dumbass, for a start, the ayatollah has not breached twitter community standards thousands of times.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
all he needs to do is hold press conferences if he wants to get a message out.
or send ravens, but birds hate his guts too.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I heard on NPR this morning that Google and Apple are talking about cutting off FLOTUS apps due to inciting violence.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
silencing people tends to enrage them. maybe they should have done something else, like had a "pause" on his tweets, so they could check them before they allowed them to be posted in case they violated the terms.
-EV 8/14/93