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For years, the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has made global politics on Twitter, fired members of the cabinet and insulted his opponents. On Friday night, the short message service withdrew its most important communication platform.
The president recently reached more than 88 million followers with his messages directly through @realDonaldTrump, without the need to go through traditional media. Trump’s Twitter archive records a total of 56,571 tweets, 26,237 of which he sent as president. In the past three months, Trump averaged 30 tweets a day.
Trump kept the world in suspense with his constant tweets. On June 4 of last year alone – during protests against racism and police violence after the death of African American George Floyd – he sent 163 Twitter messages, his daily record, to the world. In the monthly ranking, last September, when the electoral campaign was in full swing, it was ahead with 1,421 tweets from Trump.
Political messages and self-praise
The first tweet was sent by @realDonaldTrump on May 4, 2009, when Trump announced his appearance on David Letterman’s late night show.
With President Trump using the platform like no one before him, never before has Twitter messaging been more important. Trump not only spread political messages through the channel, but also often blatant self-promotion – for example, on January 6, 2018, when he described himself as “a very stable genius.”
Some tweets raised concerns about a war, for example on May 19, 2019: “If Iran wants to fight, it will be the official end of Iran,” Trump wrote at the time.
Others remained a mystery, something that later erased his message of May 31, 2017 with the word “Covfefe.” “I think the president and a small number of people know exactly what he meant,” his spokesman said at the time.
Trump shared powerfully against his opponents and critics on Twitter, often below the belt. For example, on October 24, 2017, Trump certified then-US Senator Bob Corker that he could not be “not even elected to be a dog hunter in Tennessee.”
Add warning to unsubstantiated claims
More recently, Trump used Twitter primarily to spread his unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in the November 3 presidential election and to oppose his defeat. Twitter provided more and more of his tweets with warnings. After Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, the company pulled the tightrope. Due to the “risk of further incitement to violence,” Twitter permanently blocked the @realDonaldTrump account.
The current president sent his last Twitter message on Friday at 10.44 a.m.: In it, Trump announced that he would not take part in the swearing-in of his successor Joe Biden on January 20.
