President Trump and His Twitter Antics

Blog Post One: The President and Social Media

Whether you like him or not one of the most questionable aspects of Donald Trump and his presidency would have to undoubtedly be his use of social media, specifically, Twitter. Throughout the entire election tweets emerged from the president that left not only the American people commenting and poking fun, but the entire world as well. There were also tweets that emerged that totally contradicted opinions he stood for as a presidential candidate. Now that he is our 45^th president, his shameless tweets have raised controversy that leaves many wondering if what he says is actually appropriate, considering he is in fact the leader of our country.

“Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” he tweeted in May of 2017. This is one of several tweets that left the world thinking, “what?” Before hitting the tweet button that allows 140 characters of free speech, maybe he should learn the importance of spell check because grammar matters even if our president doesn’t think so. How can we teach kids anything when our highest power refuses to learn?

While I think it is extremely important that the President of the United States keep up to date with the rise of social media and directly speak to the American people, I do feel there is a point to which a filter needs to satiate what they put out into the public. We are in a world where literally every thing you say online can be saved with a simple click of a screen shot. Sure, it can be deleted, but it can always be found and this is why I feel Donald Trump should truly get a grip on some of the comments he presents via social media. Sometimes it is flat out embarrassing. I respect his initiative to say exactly what he feels, but as high of a power as he attains, I think he should respect others and not act like such a bully when it comes to matters that are very important to the reputation of our nation.

In essence, Donald seems to be using twitter to bash and embarrass citizens, businesses, and many world leaders. Conspiracy theories are thrown out and, as president, some people will believe anything he says. It is exhausting to keep up with his crazy Twitter antics and there are more important things he needs to keep himself busy with. This is one side of social media that can be extremely aggravating.