Trump: A Year in Tweets

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🗓️ 21 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In January it will be 12 months of tweets from Donald Trump since his inauguration last January – a year of tweeting dangerously for his opponents, and potentially for himself. The president has posted about stopping North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’ leader from acquiring nuclear missiles. At home he has rallied his supporters and lashed out at his critics – as well as his own intelligence services. Some suggest that forthright remarks on Twitter could cause the President legal problems from on-going investigations into Russia’s involvement in last year’s election. The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher reviews a year of the president’s tweets and asks what has been the impact of the way Donald Trump has used Twitter during his first year as president. What can the tweets tell us about the Trump presidency, America and its relationship with the world?

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary podcast.
0:06.0	Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters across the world.
0:11.0	Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a
0:14.8	comment. Let us know what you think.
0:18.6	I'm Anthony Zerker and this is Trump a year in tweets on the BBC World Service.
0:28.0	In this documentary we'll be discussing what President Trump's tweets tell us about the first year of his presidency.
0:34.5	He's celebrated the growth of the economy and turned Twitter on his opponents in politics
0:39.9	and the media.
0:40.9	And he's had things to say that could prove dangerous to his own presidency
0:45.0	depending on the outcome of investigations into Russian involvement in the 2016
0:49.9	election. We've assembled two separate panels, one conservative and the other
0:54.0	liberal, to discuss the same tweets from different perspectives. On the right I
0:58.8	spoke in the BBC studio here in Washington DC with Saunders, White House Correspondent for the Las Vegas
1:04.7	Review Journal, and commentator Liam Donovan, a politics writer and former Republican
1:09.2	staffer who's currently a principal at the law firm Bracewell,
1:12.5	and via Skype from Pennsylvania with Adam Gingrich
1:15.5	of the Make America Great Coalition.
1:17.9	On the left I was joined at the BBC studio
1:20.1	by Elaine Kmart, a senior fellow
1:22.3	in the Governance Studies program at Brookings Institution, and
1:25.4	Rob SlaSlinger, managing editor of Opinion for US News and World Report, and via Skype
1:30.4	from North Carolina by David Graham, a staff writer for the Atlantic magazine.
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