Trump is concerned about losing Twitter followers

They’re bots, not people. Trump is just whining and making up another conspiracy. How do people fall for his phony “they’re all against us” routine? He’s the most powerful person in the world, not a victim.

Trump believes that he has lost some of his roughly 59 million Twitter followers in anti-Trump, anti-conservative Twitter purges, according to a source familiar with the Jack Dorsey meeting https://t.co/oD0XxjlleM
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 24, 2019

Former engineering manager at Twitter 👇 https://t.co/KxvzvnOj2l
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) April 23, 2019

.@jack gently tells Trump: your ‘lost’ followers are bots and spam accounts https://t.co/Ya3k6o1Nij
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) April 23, 2019

Trump spent a "significant portion" of his meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey complaining that he was losing followers. https://t.co/VbtnNUkOAi
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) April 23, 2019

"Two people close to Trump told The Daily Beast that Trump has repeatedly griped to associates about how President Obama had more Twitter followers than he has, even though—by Trump’s own assessment—he is so much better at Twitter than Obama is." https://t.co/GwAVXB3OxF
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) April 23, 2019

Trump attacks the Times and the Post. Here’s how to subscribe to them.

I subscribe to both. We need to support journalism.

Subscribe to the Washington Post here: https://t.co/DJFL1OrXFw
Subscribe to the New York Times here: https://t.co/botxMt4V8e https://t.co/U0FtljYTlm
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) April 19, 2019

Trump uses Game of Thrones property without permission again

How can Trump make the (correct) argument to China that they should stop abusing American intellectual property when he does it? He stole from Game of Thrones again and has repeatedly used music at his rallies against the wishes of the artists. I have written posts on that here.

HBO had this to say about Trump's tweet: "We still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes." https://t.co/gbqCbp45DX
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 18, 2019

HBO responds to Trump's GoT tweet:
“Though we can understand the enthusiasm for Game of Thrones now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes.”
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) April 18, 2019

Trump only cares about his base

He has no interest in being president of the entire country. His election strategy is focused on turning out his base instead of increasing his appeal. A recent poll showed that the Barr letter changed nothing.

"The old-fashioned idea that a president, once reaching office, should at least pretend to be the leader of all the people these days seems so, well, old-fashioned. Mr. Trump does not bother with the pretense." — @peterbakernyt on Trump's base obsession https://t.co/mfEKbBK1xY
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 17, 2019

Obama regularly told people that he felt obligated to consider the interests and needs of all Americans, even those who didn’t vote for him. https://t.co/8gxKFkyi6I
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 17, 2019

"It’s often observed that Trump is a minority president. But it’s worse: Deliberately functioning as a minority president is itself the long term survival strategy." https://t.co/MVSmURmxnl
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 17, 2019

If you were one of those people who thought that the Barr memo had Changed Everything for Trump, congrats and I want to play poker with you. https://t.co/euzAVKcsmU
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 17, 2019

Trump is extra-unhinged today

I wish he would shut up and play golf. His tweets were terrible today. Sad!

Donald Trump’s craziest day ever on Twitter | Analysis by CNN’s Chris Cillizza https://t.co/tj7qhXAG72 pic.twitter.com/vwJRIn0Kx7
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 19, 2019

We have a seriously dangerous normalcy bias, where we move on because we desperately want to pretend it’s okay. Trump’s Twitter meltdown today—which shows a deranged and unhinged person—will just be forgotten by Monday afternoon. But the deranged man will still control the nukes.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 17, 2019

Today in presidential Twitter criticism (Twittercrism?):

—General Motors.
—Sat Night Live/late-night shows.
—Democrats.
—News media.
—Steele Dossier/Christopher Steele.
—Hillary Clinton.
—Mueller investigation.
—John McCain.
—United Auto Workers.
—Fox News. https://t.co/xO17igPtdp
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) March 18, 2019

"Asked by The Daily Beast on Sunday evening if Donald Trump's manic retweets and tweets over the past 12 hours 'speak for themselves,'" @PressSec replied "Yes." https://t.co/GiYMe0ZDj0
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 18, 2019

POTUS retweets are not meaningless, but function as a tacit encouragement of a right wing internet ecosystem that will stop at nothing to defend him. Chuck Johnson, of Holocaust denying Twitter infamy, once told me it's proof that "we're in his head."https://t.co/EEOCmLrS9D pic.twitter.com/iaNv6WjMfg
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) March 18, 2019

The President is retweeting a bunch of conspiracy theorists. I am pointing this out because we shouldn’t accept it as normal.
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) March 17, 2019

Trump retweeted an account with a QAnon avatar today, and QAnon fans are thrilled. pic.twitter.com/uZauubWrNU
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 17, 2019

Democrat @RepRoKhanna responds to President Trump’s tweets over the weekend: “It’s completely unpresidential. Instead of assuring the nation about what happened in New Zealand and saying we condemn those kind of hate crimes, he’s tweeting" https://t.co/LUs1xaMd0g pic.twitter.com/A0Ux9clkQz
— CNN (@CNN) March 19, 2019

Trump’s evil lie about the 2016 election

So now he’s back to saying there were illegal votes. As always when he makes this claim, he has no proof. This is just a setup for him to cast doubt on the 2020 results. He’ll probably claim there were illegal votes even if he wins. Let’s see if any Republican defends our electoral process. I doubt it. They’ll just continue to put up with the lies and bigotry.

The President of United States is putting "ballot box" in scare quotes and attacking the legitimacy of an election he won. This is dangerous behavior, in every way, and Republicans have decided that they're going to accept it because of judges and tax cuts. https://t.co/3DyfImd272
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 18, 2019

There was no Democratic effort to "steal" the presidential election, at the ballot box or otherwise. This is a big lie. pic.twitter.com/9nn0a5cjje
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 17, 2019

Trump has never offered any proof for his false claim that 3 to 5 million votes were illegally cast in 2016 https://t.co/dOOMoXxXh6
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 17, 2019

There is no bottom with Trump

He keeps attacking the late John McCain.

Speaking ill of the dead.

I'd say I'm surprised but, well, how can you be at this point? https://t.co/AtVSBeAdDa
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 16, 2019

Political parties serve a circuit breaker function in a civil society. Republican leaders never pulled the switch on Trump and he gleefully burns down their home. https://t.co/hnOwXdFTB5
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) March 16, 2019

In a hundred years, John McCain will still be a national hero. You'll be a joke and a source of American shame until the sun is a darkened cinder. https://t.co/fIzLeFHi2L
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 16, 2019

Trump attacks a late senator revered by both parties. Also McCain didn’t vote against repeal and replace – he opposed advancing a “skinny repeal” to conference with the House. GOP was nowhere near consensus on a replacement https://t.co/BfZyEeIcO0
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 16, 2019

Longtime McCain aide and friend https://t.co/o58ezGgcSi
— David Goodman (@davidgoodmanTV) March 16, 2019

Trump attacked McCain for being captured during the Vietnam war and now he’s still attacking him after he has died. There’s nothing too low for Donald Trump. https://t.co/MZIWoGFFyP
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 16, 2019

John McCain has been dead for almost seven months. Donald Trump attacked him with a tweet today.

The President of the United States has nothing to better to do with his time. What a sad, little man he is. https://t.co/FQn5amM494
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 16, 2019

The people who Trump hates the most are those who are a constant reminder of his own failures and inadequacies https://t.co/vw98v58OXJ
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 17, 2019

The White House twitter account was used to tweet Trump’s political views

This is wrong!

Regardless of who started—or escalated—this ugly phenomenon, it sure would be nice to go back to a time when official government agency/entity/committee accounts weren’t used for demonizing political opponents.

People can have such views; official government accounts shouldn’t. https://t.co/QSuuaVeTzN
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 9, 2019

It's positively nuts that this intensely partisan (and false) tweet is coming from the OFFICIAL White House account. Are there still lawyers who work in that building? https://t.co/CMb5VMPJfX
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 8, 2019

Trump threatens retribution over Saturday Night Live skit

Trump continues his dictator-like comments on the media. He can’t even take satire, let alone serious critiques. Sad!

Trump asks a good question: How do television networks get away with criticizing the president without “retribution”?

The answer is the 1st Amendment. It’s part of the Constitution. https://t.co/PjONzNIsTz
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 17, 2019

It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 17, 2019

Shameful comment by any American president https://t.co/9tpuoPTUkx
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) February 17, 2019

Someone should read and explain the First Amendment to Trump. https://t.co/E65gzBFfJ2
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 17, 2019

Enemy of the People was a term “adopted in Nazi Germany — ‘If someone wears the Jewish star, he is an enemy of the people’ — and, perhaps most famously, in the Soviet Union under Stalin, when being labeled enemy of the people amounted to a death sentence.” https://t.co/KG5TcAD7nb https://t.co/jGUw1y8PJ0
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 17, 2019

The president calls for "retribution" against a comedy show that makes fun of him. pic.twitter.com/rK48lhQTxd
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 17, 2019

I know it feels like just more of the same, but you must never forget how awful it is. It is a despicable sentiment from the elected head of a democratic government. He brings shame on us all. pic.twitter.com/KKUR4GNuPS
— Tamara Cofman Wittes (@tcwittes) February 17, 2019

You know why the SNL cold open lampooning Trump's emergency declaration was only so-so? Because it was too close to what actually happened.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 17, 2019

A national leader threatening “retribution” against those who practice political satire. What would you say if you saw this in any other country? https://t.co/XjpzDN16Yy
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 17, 2019

Don Cheadle wore a Soviet Union hockey jersey with “Trump” and “45” on the back at the end of SNL after hosting. Shade level: Masterful pic.twitter.com/hrDjPRulXy
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 17, 2019

Trump takes sides again

Trump tweeted congratulations to the Patriots for making the Super Bowl but did nothing for the Rams. If he was the president of the whole country, he would congratulate both sides. He just wants to divide people, even on something minor like this.

Remember Kraft gave Trump a SuperBowl ring as a gift, and donated $1 million to his inaugural committee. Trump likes Brady because he is a rich man with a foreign wife that has fits when things do not go his way and vice-versa. https://t.co/lwkcYI1r6A via @BleacherReport #GoRams

— Andrew Padovano (@Ap_mecca93) January 21, 2019

Never forget the infamous picture of the MAGA hat in Brady’s locker (and that Kraft gave a million to the Trump campaign from his company) pic.twitter.com/bIq3aQNzNf

— Jamie Ehrlich (@jamie_ehrlich) January 21, 2019

and don’t forget this:

Are you forgetting that Putin also "stole" 😉 Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring? #Collusion https://t.co/6x3kPaa2au

— R.D. Greenfield (@RDGreenfield1) January 21, 2019