CBS News host John Dickerson asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an interview aired Sunday if he thought his Twitter wars were presidential.
Trump has engaged in multiple Twitter spats throughout the course of his campaign, calling people names and retweeting self-described white supremacists.
“There’s a lot of drama around your campaign. Is that presidential?” Dickerson asked Trump, before the candidate cut him off. “Do you think, these Twitter back and forth fights..”
“Well, I’m in Twitter wars before, really, I was a politician. And now I’m carrying it out,” Trump said. “But I was being barraged from all different sides. Having Twitter is great. And between Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, I have 12 million people, more than 12 million people. So it is a great way of getting
the word out.”
Trump went on to explain that he can slow down Twitter.
“I’m very capable of slowing down Twitter or doing whatever I want to do,” Trump said. “But Twitter is actually I’ve found it to be, and Facebook, is a
wonderful, modern way of communicating.”
Takes 65 million votes to win an election Donald…plus…this just in from Gallup…
Most political and media commentators have at this point installed Donald Trump as the GOP front-runner on the eve of the first actual voting set to begin on Monday in Iowa. But this narrative tends to obscure the fact that Trump is the most unpopular candidate of either party when the entire U.S. population is taken into account – and that he has a higher unfavorable rating than any nominated candidate from either of the two major parties going back to the 1992 election when we began to track favorability using the current format.
A Twitter Twat
Front page of the conservative Sunday Telegraph today:
“Donald Trump is the Mussolini of America with double the vulgarity”
He’s right. This is the modern media which “official” journalists like Dickerson don’t like. Like it or not, this is the way the modern world is.
Every time I read a quote from Trump I begin to feel that there might be something to be said for declaring English our official language after all. Then people like Trump & Palin might be forced to learn it. Interviewing Trump must be a truly terrible experience.