President Donald Trump was almost as introspective as he can get during an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy this week at the White House.
The interview included such forceful questions as “Do you love to Twitter?”
“There are times when I love it,” Trump said with a smile. “Too sometimes, right?” After his social media guru Dan Scavino confirmed his current total number of followers, the president boasted of his “big voice” in the face of “fake news,” adding: “It has been very important to me.”
So Portnoy, who made sure to point out that his nickname is “The President,” asked if the current president tweets something and then wakes up the next day and thinks, “Man, I wish I hadn’t sent that one off.”
“Often,” Trump replied. “Too often.” Then he explained that “in the old days,” people would write a letter and then put it in a drawer and decide the next day if they really wanted to mail it. “But we don’t do that with Twitter,” he said. “We publish it instantly, we feel great, and then you start receiving phone calls.”
When your staff asks you questions like, “Did you really say this?” Trump said his first response is often: “What’s wrong with that?”
Do you know what I find? It’s not the tweets, it’s the retweets that put you in trouble, “added Trump. He didn’t mention any specific examples, but it’s quite possible that a follower’s recent video repeatedly yelled “White Power!” it may have been on his mind (among his other infamously intolerant or conspiratorial retweets).
Portnoy then asked Trump how exactly he ends up retweeting so many “crazy” people. “You don’t even look, you just press retweet, you just shoot from the hip!” he said.
“Well, you see something that looks good and you don’t investigate it,” Trump replied, “and you don’t look at exactly what’s in the helmet, which is miniature, and you don’t exploit it.” But I have discovered, almost always, that it is retweets that put you in trouble. ”
“I’ve seen him a bit with you,” Portnoy agreed before moving on to trick Trump into destroying Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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