Donald Trump seems pretty stoked about today’s social media summit at the White House. Because it’s going to be the beginning of the end for the Fake News Media:
A big subject today at the White House Social Media Summit will be the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies. We will not let them get away with it much longer. The Fake News Media will also be there, but for a limited period..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019
….The Fake News is not as important, or as powerful, as Social Media. They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady. When I ultimately leave office in six……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019
Can we stop him right there?
The escalator ride where Trump announced his candidacy was in June 2015. pic.twitter.com/1w5yu9tWs3
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 11, 2019
OK, now that we’ve gotten that cleared up, let’s keep going:
….years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding), they will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public. That’s why they will all be Endorsing me at some point, one way or the other. Could you imagine having Sleepy Joe Biden, or @AlfredENeuman99,..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019
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…or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019
So much to unpack there.
Holy. Crap.
He learned to thread tweets! https://t.co/nOI5cxvT1H
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 11, 2019
This is normal. https://t.co/0AmO41FQI7
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) July 11, 2019
I can’t believe this is real life
— Nathan Jamison (@NateJamison) July 11, 2019
Wha….what the f…
Either I accidentally laced my morning coffee with acid, or the president actually tweeted this…. pic.twitter.com/HMhVR41idQ
— Impeach Cobbler (@Xquisite_imp) July 11, 2019
Give Trump credit for this much: it takes a buttload of self-confidence to go out there and publicly proclaim your genius while simultaneously displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of basic math.
Greatest fraction of all time https://t.co/c1ivPXuNJJ
— Alexandra F. Baldwin (@VerumVulnero1) July 11, 2019
1000/24th?
Wharton math? https://t.co/zhDUvO2DiJ
— Gadfly With Me (@NathanWurtzel) July 11, 2019
1000/24 would tweet again.
1000 ÷ 24 = 41.6̅6̅
She's more than 41 Native Americans in one. Brilliant. https://t.co/5Parx6AAJN
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) July 11, 2019
Don’t forget good-looking and smart!
Trump is out in full troll mode on social media on the same day he is hosting the social media summit.
I have no idea what to make of anything anymore. https://t.co/nmZ0CbNNVt
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) July 11, 2019
The guy definitely knows how to keep people talking about him.
If that’s his ultimate goal here, then, well, mission accomplished.