President Trump's (Anti-)Social Media

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The President's Twitter feed has become the White House's primary mechanism for communicating with the world. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR Politics took a deep dive into Trump's combative social media universe and found that he does not go after all of the objects of his ire in the same way.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Code Switch from NPR, I'm Shireen Madisoul Miraji.
0:03.6	And I'm Jean Dempsey.
0:04.6	Okay, so way back on July 14th.
0:07.0	That was like a few months ago.
0:08.1	Yeah, open summer song.
0:09.4	Okay.
0:09.9	Probably very hot out.
0:10.9	President Trump tweeted the following.
0:13.2	So interesting to see progressive Democrat Congresswoman
0:16.4	who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.
0:20.5	The worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world.
0:23.5	If they even have a functioning government at all.
0:25.8	Now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States
0:30.1	the greatest and most powerful nation on earth.
0:32.9	How our government is to be run.
0:35.5	Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came?
0:44.1	Dramatic Trump tweet readings by our super talented producers.
0:47.6	So not President Trump.
0:49.6	Just to clear that up, that was not President Trump.
0:51.7	And the Democrats, Congresswomen, he was talking about.
0:55.3	They're the squad.
0:56.3	And for those of you who don't know who the squad are.
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