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Twitter’s Next Trump Problem

Trump is exempt from many of Twitter’s policies because of his status as a world leader. Come January, he could lose his favorite toy and most powerful weapon.
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The president’s bad tweets are the stuff of slideshows and masterposts. They’ve inspired memes and cultural catchphrases, and some are so artfully inane that they could even be called poetry: “The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!” Donald Trump tweeted, memorably, on Cinco de Mayo in 2016.

Others are scarier. There was the time he could “serve as notification” that the United States would counter any military attack from Iran, “perhaps in a disproportionate manner.” There was the time he that the Clintons had ordered Jeffrey Epstein murdered. There were the Obama , one after another, throughout Trump’s and well . There was the grotesque that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Trump’s “worst tweet ever,” according columnist, was the one he posted as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after being treated for COVID-19 in October: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” Now, just a few weeks later, he has outdone himself, with that the election has been stolen from him. “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” he less than an hour before every major network would declare the four days later, undeterred.

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