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Creating The Monster That Is @RealDonaldTrump

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Peter Costanzo, the man who got Donald Trump on Twitter. Trumpcast is brought to you by Texture. Get access to your favorite magazines all in one place. Learn more about Texture and start your free trial today by going to Texture.com/TRUMPCAST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8

You know she's got this goofy friend named Elizabeth Warrant. She goes,

0:38.1

and Donald Trump is a terrible person. She gets nothing done, nothing passed. She's got a big mouth.

0:45.2

That's the best you could come up with. Calling on Donald Trump for help is like,

0:50.3

if your house is on fire calling an arsonist.

1:00.1

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. The show about the man who reads the Bible more than anyone else.

1:05.9

Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Weisberg. So here are some social media stats. At Real Donald Trump,

1:13.0

Donald Trump's Twitter account has 10.95 million Twitter followers. As of this morning,

1:19.0

he had sent 32,927 tweets. You can round that up to 33,000. Here's one I like from 2013.

1:28.0

Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest, and you all know it. Please don't feel

1:33.7

so stupid or insecure. It's not your fault. If you've been listening to this show, you've heard a

1:39.1

lot of other tweets and will have the latest for you in a second. Donald Trump is the first candidate

1:44.0

to run for president on social media and to see it as a substitute for conventional advertising

1:50.4

and a political ground game. So how did this get started? I was having dinner with a friend of mine

1:55.2

recently and he told me he knew a guy who actually got Trump started on social media in 2009.

2:01.3

I track that guy down. His name is Peter Costanzo and he's here in our Brooklyn studio with me.

2:07.4

I'll be back with that interview about Trump's tweets right after we do the tweets.

2:14.9

Ratings challenged CNN reports so seriously that I called president Obama and Clinton the founder

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