Report: Aides block Trump from Twitter

[mystery-ak]

November 06, 2016, 12:49 pm
Report: Aides block Trump from Twitter

By Ben Kamisar

Donald Trump's press aides have revoked access to his Twitter account, a new report claims, as the GOP nominee tries to stay on message for the campaign's final stretch.

The New York Times reports on Sunday that Trump no longer has control of what goes out on his Twitter account, with aides drafting and sending out messages with his help.

In one example given by the Times, Trump and top press aide Hope Hicks co-authored a tweet about how President Obama shouldn't be spending his time in office campaigning for Clinton that Hicks approved and sent.

Trump's social media account boasts more than 13 million followers and the unconventional politician has regularly leaned on it to tar political rivals and give voters an unfiltered look at his thoughts. But his Twitter musings have been a regular source of headaches for his campaign both during the primary election and the general election.

He provoked the ire of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) when he retweeted an unflattering photo of his wife during the GOP primary. More recently, a late-night series of tweets disparaging a former Miss Universe who claims Trump belittled her for gaining weight distracted his campaign and opened the door for ridicule from Democrats.

Last month, he also promised an all-out war against the GOP establishment and Hillary Clinton in a series of tweets, warning that the "shackles have been taken off."

The more-restrained social media approach over the last few days mimics Trump's overall direction as he heads into Election Day. His rallies have been increasingly reliant on scripted remarks, more subdued with less departures into areas that could come back to haunt him. 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304573-report-trump-aides-take-away-his-personal-twitter

[mystery-ak]

Took em long enough...should have done this months ago he might be up by 5 or poor points..

[Rivergirl]

Took em long enough...should have done this months ago he might be up by 5 or poor points..

So you would rather America never got to see the sickness in Trump's soul.  That the man that called Dr. Carson a pedophile would be kept from further outrages?

Wow, is all I can say.

[txradioguy]

Smartest thing they've done for the man.

Should have done it 8 months ago.

[Norm Lenhart]

Brilliant. Lets elect a man with such little self control that he would absolutely sabotage his own run for the presidency with a Twitter post. Lets elect a man who is going to deal with world leaders, but has to BE controlled by his handlers, less he lapse into online flamewars for his personal amusement.

Some people are too stupid to vote.

[montanajoe]

The Trump campaign should put out a final ad reassuring the electorate that if elected they will take away his Twitter account, they will wash his mouth out with soap, and they are going to send him to bed without supper every time he is a bad boy...

[ConstitutionRose]

Brilliant. Lets elect a man with such little self control that he would absolutely sabotage his own run for the presidency with a Twitter post. Lets elect a man who is going to deal with world leaders, but has to BE controlled by his handlers, less he lapse into online flamewars for his personal amusement.

Some people are too stupid to vote.

I tried  to think of a kinder way to say the last sentence, but I'll settle for

THIS

[Norm Lenhart]

I tried  to think of a kinder way to say the last sentence, but I'll settle for

THIS

No point in kindness. Truth is often unkind. In fact, if more people had been truthful without worrying about these special little snowflakes feelings, we would not be faced with a no win scenario for America.

If people can walk into a booth and pull a lever for the man that has behaved in the ways we have all seen Trump behave in the last year, they deserve him for 8 more. They deserve to suffer the scorn and disgust others will pile on them from across the planet. They will be solely responsible for the mockery we will all endure because of their selfish stupidity.

Every single one of them could have voted for someone less insane than Donald Trump. Even God forbid, Johnson is less insane and more verifiably conservative than Donald Trump. But they did not want conservatism. they wanted liberalism.

That is not an intelligent decision. Winning 'no matter what' is not an intelligent pursuit. It's a morally bankrupt pursuit regardless of some snowflake's feelings on the matter. It's a demonstratably STUPID position when the guy your 'winning' with, sees no issue with grabbing women by the bleep, allowing trannies into women's bathrooms, donates more to liberals than to conservatives and fights conservatives far harder than any liberal including his direct opponent. Forget that he is an open borders on his terms proponent, anti 1 and 2A and fakes his faith for votes.

These people should not have the right to vote. They have done nothing to respect that right and everything to render it meaningless. Their vote cheapens ours and cheapens the very concept of America.

[HonestJohn]

Awww, I wanted to read how Trump would personally kill every single man and woman in America that doesn't vote for him.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I call b.s. on this.  Aides may suggest staying off Twitter (a good idea with which he may have complied voluntarily), but the idea that they revoked/blocked his right to be on Twitter is absurd.

[Rivergirl]

Too stupid to vote isn't as bad as suggesting that a certain person deserves a bullet.

[sinkspur]

I call b.s. on this.  Aides may suggest staying off Twitter (a good idea with which he may have complied voluntarily), but the idea that they revoked/blocked his right to be on Twitter is absurd.

Why hasn't he been on Twitter?  He was compulsive. Perhaps they convinced him to shut down his account. That's the only way I see him refraining.

[Norm Lenhart]

Why hasn't he been on Twitter?  He was compulsive. Perhaps they convinced him to shut down his account. That's the only way I see him refraining.

Just think if he wins. The world will get daily bursts of his idiocy under an all new account with a Presidential title to go with them.

'Murica. F' yea...

[Hoodat]

Report: Aides block Trump from Twitter

Dang, someone in the Trump campaign has been reading my posts.

[INVAR]

The fact this is even being discussed, given the countless PROOFS that Trump has no self-control whatsoever - is cause enough to disqualify him from the presidency.

If he cannot be trusted with a Twitter account to prevent sabotaging his own campaign - why should he be trusted with the highest office in the land?  Could he not sabotage the entire nation?

As alluded, most people no longer think.

[Norm Lenhart]

The fact this is even being discussed, given the countless PROOFS that Trump has no self-control whatsoever - is cause enough to disqualify him from the presidency.

If he cannot be trusted with a Twitter account to prevent sabotaging his own campaign - why should he be trusted with the highest office in the land?  Could he not sabotage the entire nation?

As alluded, most people no longer think.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are little different from spoiled children demanding things they don't understand, for reasons they cannot explain and then flailing about on the floor spasticly screaming how they WANT, until they are either rewarded for bad behavior or they exhaust themselves and mercifully STFU.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

C'mon, Trump needs more than his Twitter blocked...

[rodamala]

If I were his campaign manager, I woulda had Moose and Rocco break both of Mr. Trump's thumbs during the primaries.

[GtHawk]

Awww, I wanted to read how Trump would personally kill every single man and woman in America that doesn't vote for him.

Fear not! Trump has surrogates a plenty, and they post here.

[GtHawk]

C'mon, Trump needs more than his Twitter blocked...

Well, I'm told he doesn't drink, so I guess that just leaves him the frontal lobotomy choice.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Well, I'm told he doesn't drink, so I guess that just leaves him the frontal lobotomy choice.

Nah, he just needs a daily dose of thorazine.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Why hasn't he been on Twitter?  He was compulsive. Perhaps they convinced him to shut down his account. That's the only way I see him refraining.

As i said, i'd buy that they convinced him to stay off  Twitter.  I don't buy that they "blocked" him.

[Rivergirl]

He sends Uday and Quasay out there to tweet on his behalf.

[GrouchoTex]

Awww, I wanted to read how Trump would personally kill every single man and woman in America that doesn't vote for him.

I have a feeling that after the election, he will be back on twitter, going after the people who didn't vote for him.
Not sure about literally killing them, but killing their reputations.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

After what's gone on with the DOJ, absentee ballots, and then Obama telling illegals there won't be any legal consequences if they vote, i think we've jumped the shark in terms of election legitimacy.  So, assuming Trump loses tomorrow, i'd hope he doesn't concede, and  goes with the line that Hillary was "selected not elected".

Time to finally get it out in the open.