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Tales of the Tweeter-in-Chief

By Kael the Sapiocrat


Source: DailyDot.com
Twitter is that social media site that I made back in high school and didn't really use it until again until a couple of years ago. Between my girlfriend and I, she's the constant tweeter -- while I just open the app every so often to make a short political statement, tweet live responses to my favorite shows and political debates with their unique Twitter handle, or retweet hilarious Thanksgiving clapbacks when turkey season comes around. But 2016 was the year that turned me into a tweeter on the edge. I found myself hitting more keys faster than Chopin on a caffeine high. Trump was on Twitter...and there was MUCH to tweet about.

Let's fast forward to 2018. On countless occasions, we've seen Mr. Trump lash out at women, minorities, the LGBTQ community, the handicapped and even other countries using Twitter as his platform to unleash his unmitigated anger and frustration. We've seen nations reshape or worsen their attitudes towards our country because of the President's inability to use his social media presence to convey only positive and helpful information for the world to see. Now I won't lie, I've tweeted a
quote or a small blurb to release anger now and again. But then again, I'm not the President of the United States. My small tweets aren't regarded as the agenda of an entire administration. Unfortunately, Mr. Trump's is. Which is why I felt compelled (and persuaded by Michelle 💟) to write this post.

What we have here is a television personality turned commander-in-chief who has used his position to not promote unity within and outside of the country, but to further cause division and induce hate around the globe. Since his rise to the Presidency, the only thing that I've seen more of than his negative tweets are the number of hate groups that have surfaced both online and in communities which are doing nothing but fueling the fire that this president has ignited. My constant fear is waking up in the morning before work to a CNN breaking news story that an American adversary has fired a nuclear missile in retaliation to a threat that the president tweeted the night before (I'm not alone). It's sickening how much of a game Mr. Trump believes that the protection and good governance of the United States is.

We live in a highly sensitive and dramatically tense global environment where threatening words can hit the wrong tone and set off a chain reaction which could lead us to war. Maybe he doesn't care, but millions of us do. People like the author who wrote this article, to me, are highly disturbing. I need not see any more of what the president is thinking. We all know what he's thinking and what the consequences are if he translates those thoughts into actions. Our main concern should be how to survive once those consequences come to fruition.

Honestly, I'm just ready for 2020...

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