President Trump
Donald John Trump, Justice Department, says 18 people face federal charges after Portland’s protests against the U.S. He takes over the former Chinese consulate in Houston. Defense Overnight: Republican Senator Aims to Rename Confederate Base | Trump approves sale of more larger armed drones MORE He acknowledged in an interview published on Friday that he “often” regrets his tweets and retweets.
“It used to be in the old days before this, you would write a letter and say, ‘This letter is really bad,’ you put it on your desk and come back tomorrow and say, ‘Oh, I’m glad I didn’t send it,'” Trump said. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
“But we don’t do that with Twitter. We post it instantly, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls, ‘Did you really say this?’ I say, ‘What’s wrong with that?’ And you find a lot of things, “continued the president, who is often criticized for using his Twitter account. Do you know what I find? It’s not the tweets, it’s the retweets that put you in trouble.”
Trump went on to say that he doesn’t always look closely at the tweets he shares from his Twitter account, which has 84 million followers.
Similarly, he said that some of his tweets create trouble for the White House in an interview last year.
Trump also told Portnoy that he believed Twitter was a powerful messaging tool, explaining that he uses it to combat “fake news,” a phrase he often uses to circumvent critical press coverage of his administration.
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– Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresident) July 24, 2020
The president’s interview with Barstool Sports was taped Thursday, marking the Opening Day of the shortened 2020 Major League Baseball season, and was posted online Friday.
Trump has a long history of tweeting or retweeting controversial messages, including recently sharing a video tweet showing an apparent Trump supporter yelling “white power” in response to protesters. Trump later deleted the tweet, and the White House said the president had not heard the racist phrase when he shared it.
He was also criticized for a tweet he sent in late May criticizing protesters in Minneapolis and warning that “when the looting begins, the shooting begins,” repeating a phrase that was used by a Miami police chief to crack down on protests during Civil Rights was. Trump later denied knowing the racially charged history of the phrase.
In June, Twitter said it tagged a Trump tweet with an official notice “for violating our policy against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group.”
And earlier this month, Trump retweeted a game show host who alleged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others were lying about the new coronavirus to hurt his reelection chances.
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