The Interesting Thing about Twitter – It is a Two-way Communications Medium

On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said he intended to keep using Twitter while he was in office. Like many Americans, I am horrified that President Trump will persist tweeting his childish, boorish insults. It portends to be just another embarrassment in the stream of national embarrassments that will come to define the Trump presidency.

The reports from the first days of Trump’s transition planning certainly don’t bode well for the nation.  Already we have seen Trump recklessly sucking up to Russia before he has even settled on a national security team. It is no wonder that his top national security advisor, former Congressman Mike Rogers, has already jumped ship. Another dark portend is the appointment of the alt-right movement leader Steve Bannon as Mr. Trump’s chief strategist. Steven Bannon has been widely denounced as a xenophobic, white nationalist and his participation in the new administration is a slap in the face to all who accepted at face value Donald Trump’s lie that he “will be president for all Americans” so we can “come together as one united people.”  Fat chance!

If the campaign has taught us anything about Mr. Trump, it is that he is extremely thin skinned. He spent a good bit of his time on Twitter going after anyone who dared criticize the magnificence that is “The Donald”. Just yesterday he called out the New York Times because they dared to quote one of Donald’s foreign policy mutterings about nuclear weapons made during the campaign.
Well, Twitter is a two-way communications medium. I call on everyone to flood @realdonaldtrump with tweets telling him exactly what you think about his leadership so far.

Show leadership @realdonaldtrump and denounce the hate and violence being perpetrated in your name #wearestillhere

‘President for all’ Ha! @realdonaldtrump Steve Bannon as your strategist proves the lie #wearestillhere

It’s a blind trust, not blindly trusting @realdonaldtrump; drain in the swamp of your glaring conflicts of interest #wearestillhere