Trump to Continue "Freaking Mainstream Media Out", Will "Boldly Use" Twitter For Policy Announcements

[Frank Cannon]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-02/trump-continue-freaking-mainstream-media-out-will-boldly-use-twitter-policy-announce

Having drawn the ire of the mainstream press for his extensive use of Twitter in announcing major developments and policy shifts, President-elect Donald Trump will not end the "onslaught" of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month, as Bloomberg notes following an announcement by incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer who said he expects Trump "will boldly use" Twitter to make major policy announcements.

Shortly after his victory on November 8, Trump said in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he was rethinking his use of social media: “I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all, I’m going to be very restrained,” Trump said. That, however, has not happened and since then, during the countdown to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, he’s shown little sign that he intends to follow that pledge.

In fact, making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will “absolutely” continue, despite any prior promises to the contrary, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” Spicer said.

“You know, with all due respect, I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45 plus million people that follow him on social media, that he can have a direct conversation,” Spicer said. “He doesn’t have to have it funneled through the media.”

Indeed, he doesn't, and the fact that the media suddenly finds itself locked out in this most important of information dissemination and filtration pathways, has unleashed the biggest period of soul-searching for the conventional press in decades.

[Frank Cannon]

Spicer also went on to say that another reason they are continuing the Twitter posts is to send a political forum member named @Weird Tolkienish Figure off the rails. Donny likes to target random people to gaslight for his own enjoyment.

[Wingnut]

Trump knows so little and knows it so fluently that it make Twitter his perfect forum for expression.  Go for it.

[geronl]

tweeting like a bratty 12 year old is un-presidential

[INVAR]

So careers will be made by those sycophants who are able to de-explain, re-clarify, re-appoint, re-explain, de-clarify, re-couch, and tell us what Trump really meant by his words, by being able to extract Trump's deep heart and mind over every stupid imbecillic and juvenile ranting he vomits forth from his phone.

We have already been treated to a marvelous banquet of justifications and explanations as to why Trump's Liberalism is really Reagan Conservatism, if not moreso.

[Just_Victor]

Well, if he insists on using twitter, can Trump at least elicit some assistance on sounding like an adult?

[Wingnut]

Well, if he insists on using twitter, can Trump at least elicit some assistance on sounding like an adult?

It is his child like tweets that make him so enduring to his followers..

[geronl]

It is his child like tweets that make him so enduring to his followers..

I think you meant "endearing"... it's the preservatives in his Taco Bowl diet that makes him enduring (and farty)

[Frank Cannon]

tweeting like a bratty 12 year old is un-presidential

So is running the country like a South American dictator.

[ConstitutionRose]

It should be interesting if nothing else.  I wouldn't want to be in charge of messaging discipline.

[Wingnut]

I wouldn't want to be in charge of messaging discipline.

That would be an oxymoron. 

[Chosen Daughter]

tweeting like a bratty 12 year old is un-presidential

  that's what he calls policy announcements? !!!!!!!!!!!