# Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428 "2016-11-19T15:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 145
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2881 "2017-10-22T13:18:28Z")
Trump & Twitter – why we should stop paying so much attention > **[‘Bing, bing, bing’: Trump reveals his thinking behind firing off all those...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/20/bing-bing-bing-trump-reveals-his-thinking-behind-firing-off-all-those-tweets/)** > > The president acknowledged that some of his friends have told him to put his phone down. Emphasis added. > [@](#): > > "President Trump has a ready weapon in hand to return fire when he feels under attack. > > “When somebody says something about me, I am able to go bing, bing, bing and I take care of it,” the president said. > > Trump, of course, was talking about Twitter, which has become a staple of his presidency. > > In a revealing few minutes in a larger interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network, Trump repeatedly said he might not have been elected without his use of social media and explained why he finds it such an appealing outlet. > … > > Trump acknowledged that he has friends who tell him not to use social media. But, he said, it’s a very useful tool to counter “fake news” and respond to critics. > … > > He also marveled at how quickly some television networks put his tweets up on the screen for their viewers to see. > > “Tweeting is like a typewriter,” Trump told Bartiromo. “When I put it out, you put it immediately on your show. I mean the other day, I put something out, two seconds later I am watching your show.” > … > > “You know they are well-crafted,” he said of his tweets. “I was always a good student. I am like a person that does well with that kind of thing. And I doubt I would be here if weren’t for social media, to be honest with you. Because there is a fake media out there, I get treated very unfairly by the media.”… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2882 "2017-10-22T13:30:49Z")
I made the same argument to Josh Marshall of TPM yesterday - that, as crazy as it may seem, the press needs to stop reacting to Trump’s tweets. Yeah, he’s the President, yeah, reporting what the President says and does is your job… I get that. But, really, after seeing every damn network news show start talking about JFK… they just need to stop. Ignore the guy. Hell, an overall ban on what people said on Twitter would improve news quality 20%. It’s just lazy journalism. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2883 "2017-10-22T13:34:34Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > … > Hell, an overall ban on what people said on Twitter would improve news quality 20%. It’s just lazy journalism. I wouldn’t call it journalism at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2884 "2017-10-22T14:20:10Z")
“Tweeting is like a typewriter…when I put it out, you put it immediately on your show.” Trump doesn’t understand how similes work, does he? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2885 "2017-10-22T14:31:16Z")
Or he thinks that typewriters and teletype are the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2886 "2017-10-22T14:49:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Trump & Twitter – why we should stop paying so much attention. > [@JohnT](#): > > Ignore the guy. How much attention is the right amount? Who determines which tweets require attention and which do not? I don’t argue that the fucking orange moron tweets inane shit that is barely intelligible, let alone news worthy. But what I believe bears constant vigilance is acceptance and normalization of this behaviour. Ignoring him will only serve to make his pathological lies go unchallenged and acceptable. That is something we cannot ever allow. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2887 "2017-10-22T15:37:09Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > How much attention is the right amount? Who determines which tweets require attention and which do not? > > I don’t argue that the fucking orange moron tweets inane shit that is barely intelligible, let alone news worthy. But what I believe bears constant vigilance is acceptance and normalization of this behaviour. Ignoring him will only serve to make his pathological lies go unchallenged and acceptable. That is something we cannot ever allow. It’s tricky. I think he posts a lot of this crap precisely because it gets him the attention he craves. If he posts the truth, no one will respond or care. When he posts lies, the Left goes berserk and draws enormous attention to him, and the Right kicks in and defends him, dragging the whole thing out _ad nauseum_. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2888 "2017-10-22T16:44:15Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > How much attention is the right amount? Who determines which tweets require attention and which do not? > > I don’t argue that the fucking orange moron tweets inane shit that is barely intelligible, let alone news worthy. But what I believe bears constant vigilance is acceptance and normalization of this behaviour. Ignoring him will only serve to make his pathological lies go unchallenged and acceptable. That is something we cannot ever allow. Daft Twerp tweets, like every syllable he garbles, should be universally ignored. We know he’s lying and trolling, he knows he’s lying and trolling, stop sending him billy goats. Don’t give him the attention he craves. But that won’t happen, because the attention sells advertising space, which is why the Loofah-faced Shit Gibbon is president. Everyone loves watching a train wreck, carnage be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2889 "2017-10-22T19:36:28Z")
Let’s be real. No one is going to ignore Trump’s tweets. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2890 "2017-10-22T20:38:13Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Let’s be real. No one is going to ignore Trump’s tweets. I can dream… ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2891 "2017-10-22T20:52:18Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > It’s tricky. I think he posts a lot of this crap precisely because it gets him the attention he craves. If he posts the truth, no one will respond or care. When he posts lies, the Left goes berserk and draws enormous attention to him, and the Right kicks in and defends him, dragging the whole thing out _ad nauseum_. You’ve summed up 2016 and 2017 in a mere 61 words. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2892 "2017-10-22T21:01:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I can dream… [It’s not an uncommon dream.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815957) But, according to a now banned sock, and bricker, it is only that, a dream. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2893 "2017-10-23T12:59:22Z")
President FuckingMoron [calls out the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson for lying](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/soldiers-widow-says-trump-struggled-to-remember-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name.html). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2894 "2017-10-23T13:03:01Z")
With sincere apologies to the 70’s band… [SuperTrump](http://ir.net/news/politics/127899/donald-trump-jr-just-shared-incredibly-odd-fake-time-magazine-cover-dad/). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2895 "2017-10-23T16:06:25Z")
I kinda like their big hit, _Take The Wrong Way Home_. My parents played it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2896 "2017-10-23T16:26:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I kinda like their big hit, _Take The Wrong Way Home_. My parents played it a lot. You can’t blame them for trying. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2897 "2017-10-23T16:29:49Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > President FuckingMoron [calls out the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson for lying](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/soldiers-widow-says-trump-struggled-to-remember-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name.html). I think [the CNN article](http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/politics/trump-johnson-call/index.html) is better. How low can he get? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2898 "2017-10-23T16:29:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Any why? Because, like his hero Donald, he loves the attention. And also like Donald, he gets plenty of it. > > Imagine a Fantasyland where everyone ignored **Okra** and Donald Trump. What a pity that Trump cannot be banned for being a sock, just like asshole **Okra**. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2899 "2017-10-23T16:36:24Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > You can’t blame them for trying. When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them. - Emo Phillips ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428/2900 "2017-10-23T16:47:24Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I think [the CNN article](http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/politics/trump-johnson-call/index.html) is better. > > How low can he get? There appears to be no floor in this pit, no lower limit to childishness of this moron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-hurt-trump-takes-to-twitter-again-part-1/772428.md?page=146)