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The Political Orphanage

Ep 79 | Donald Trump's Social Media Sledgehammer | Guest: Dr. Brian Ott

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, News, Politics

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Twitter nabbed Trump an eager pool of followers in 2016, and millions of unearned media attention from his detractors. How is Twitter uniquely suited to his temperament, and how does a 280-character limit shape discourse? Dr. Brian L. Ott is the author of "The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage." He joins Heaton to discuss.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host, most of the time

0:17.2

Andrew Heaton and it made Thursday we're going to do Thinky Fun Time, where I bring on a author, a mentat, a thought leader,

0:26.7

a particularly eloquent warlord, someone that will be interesting to talk to about

0:29.8

something substantive and we'll get into it.

0:32.0

Today we're going to talk about Trump and tweets.

0:34.8

If you regularly listen to the show,

0:36.9

you know that I don't generally talk about Donald Trump.

0:39.7

I don't like him being the kind of black hold of the entire media universe circles around.

0:45.4

However, if we're going to talk about him, why not talk about him academically?

0:48.5

So I've brought on a professor.

0:49.8

We're going to talk about his book, The Twitter presidency.

0:52.1

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