Buried Treasure: The Donald J. Trump Twitter Library

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Roy Wood Jr., correspondent from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, joins Skullduggery's Buried Treasure live from SXSW and the site of The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman fill you in on the museum-like experience as they recall the first time the President ever tweeted and how it has changed politics forever.

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0:00.0	May 4, 2009, a milestone in American politics, although completely unnoticed at the time.
0:08.3	Donald Trump is about to be a guest on Late Night with David Letterman.
0:12.6	To promote his appearance, Trump turns to what was for him a new medium, Twitter.
0:18.4	Be sure to tune in and watch Donald Trump on Late Night with David Letterman as he presents
0:23.0	the top 10 lists tonight, exclamation point.
0:27.1	Yes, that was Donald Trump's first tweet.
0:30.4	Written, you might have noticed, in the third person.
0:33.4	It was the start of a long love affair with Twitter that has continued, and in many ways has come to define his presidency.
0:41.4	To mark the phenomenon, County Central's Daily Show has put together a note-worthy exhibit,
0:47.2	the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library, a history of Trump's relationship with Twitter,
0:53.5	and one that historians will be studying for years into the future.
0:57.5	That's our subject on this episode of Buried Treasure.
1:24.0	The license for that one.
1:25.0	There will be no lies.
1:27.8	We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:38.7	I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:41.9	And I'm Dan Clyde, an Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
1:44.2	You know, what an ingenious idea to mark the Trump era,
1:50.0	then to turn it into a Twitter library.
1:52.6	We've got a president who really doesn't read very much, doesn't write very much.
1:58.2	And, you know, he uses one principle form of expression to communicate with the world Twitter.
2:06.6	Well, one of the things is brilliant about it is,
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