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| DATE | 2016-11-06 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Guess who's being carefully kept away from his
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Obama:
“Now, you may have heard that — this was just announced, I just read
it, so I can’t confirm it’s true, but — this campaign has taken away his
Twitter. In the last two days, they had so little confidence in his
self-control, they said ‘We’re just gonna take away your Twitter.’ Now,
if somebody can’t handle a Twitter account, they can’t handle the
nuclear codes. If somebody starts tweeting at 3 in the morning because
SNL made fun of you, you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”
Obama’s joking, but he’s barely departing from the truth. Donald Trump’s
aides have, in fact, taken away the candidate’s Twitter access in the
final days of the campaign as a last-ditch attempt to keep him from
sticking his foot in his mouth; Donald Trump is, in fact, susceptible to
3am tweetstorms (one of which famously tried to discredit former Miss
Universe Alicia Machado by instructing America to “check out sex tape”).
And Donald Trump does, in fact, have a tendency to lash out at Saturday
Night Live’s portrayal of him by Alec Baldwin (he liked the earlier,
much less savage portrayal by Darrell Hammond better).
[...]
Above is from
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/6/13546000/trump-twitter-obama
Chasing down the story source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html
has:
[...]
Of course, a few days of good behavior cannot erase 16 months of
erratic conduct, and aides acknowledge that their efforts to steer a
straight course may falter.
[...]
For the next week, his staff deployed a series of creative tricks to
protect its boss from his most self-destructive impulses.
Several advisers warned him that he risked becoming like a wild animal
chasing its prey so zealously that it raced over a cliff — a reminder
that he could pursue his grievances and his eagerness to fling insults,
but that the cost would be a plunge into an electoral abyss.
Taking away Twitter turned out to be an essential move by his press
team, which deprived him of a previously unfiltered channel for his
aggressions.
[...]
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