Dan

This is madness, folks.

majorjoe23

Dan

Perfectly reasonable. Obama would have done the same thing. /s

cungar

Surprised he doesn't type it on a manual typewriter and send the carbon copies.

JasonF

Of all the crazy shit Trump does, that's not at all weird. Imagine you wrote something in 2010 and a few weeks later got a handwritten note from Barack Obama saying "I saw that thing you wrote and I really liked it." You'd be pleased and proud. This isn't "needless complication" or "technophobe doesn't know how to use like button." This is "egomaniac with cult following strokes the ego of his fans."

Bacon

he'll cook up some BS excuse to be a no show

brayzie

He's a celebrity/president who's giving people autographs based on their tweets. I think that this news organizations is making a mountain out of a molehill.

If he doesn't use a computer, and "likely never downloaded an app" (based on...?) how does he use Twitter? The article and the tweet gives you the impression that he doesn't know about the "like" button, and instead does this elaborate process. And yet, he's liked tweets made by his family and VP.

dex14

Red Hood

Thanks to Donnie, assholes like Rand Paul feel justified in being publicly racist. Could we do a gofundme for Paul's neighbor so he can beat the shit out of Rand again and we can pay his legal fees?

majorjoe23

brayzie

That's possible. But if someone uses Twitter as much as he does, I'd say it's more likely that he has downloaded the app, then claim he the opposite. NY Mag is playing the agist angle and trying to portray him as some senior citizen resorting to Rube Goldberg-like inventions to do simple things when in reality, it's like JasonF said, a way for Trump the celebrity to stroke the ego of his fans by giving them his autograph.

Red Hood

Repercussions of Trump's rally in NC and his attacks on the congrewomen

GoldenJCJ

JTH182

My dad watches Youtube all the time, and he never downloaded the app. I did. I think it's likely a man in his 70s didn't actually download anything.

stingermck

GoldenJCJ

Dan

Sure, but... celebrity autographs are usually requested by the person receiving them, whether that's standing in front of the celebrity with a pen and paper (or cleavage!), or mailing a letter to them, or approaching them at a convention or whatever. Those are solicited, but what he's doing is unsolicited autographs, which is very strange behavior. It's like when Apple put U2 on everyone's iTunes accounts. Sure, it was no big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it was pretty fucking presumptuous of both Apple and U2 to assume everyone wanted that shit* album on their accounts.

How many molehills do you need to make a mountain?


I think you're misunderstanding what folks have been saying. He's probably got the app on there, but he's probably NOT the one who installed it and set up his own account.
They're not saying he doesn't know what the "like" button does; they're saying he has a whole process set up where, if he presses that little heart (or indicates that he "likes" a tweet some other way), some lackey at the white house has to print off a copy of the tweet, bring it to him, have him sign it, then send it off to whoever wrote it.
It's fuckin' weird, my dude. That's it.



*I listened to it once. I didn't like it, but maybe it gets better with repeat listens.

wendersfan

Unemployment rate in MD-07 (Cummings' district) - 6.2%
Unemployment rate in KY-05 (96% white, went 80% for Trump) - 8.4%

(Data are from the 2017 ACS)

Red Hood

What the fuck does this even mean? Is he trying to crack jokes like Huckabee?

slop101

I know it's already been said many times, many ways, but holy shit our president is a fucking idiot...

cungar

Well he got the "I know nothing" part spot on

slop101

And, I swear, his hyperbole is giving me cancer!
He can't just be "not racist", he has to be the LEAST racist person ANYWHERE.

stingermck

What like the back of a Volkswagen?

story

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slop101

“The African American people” are burning up the phone lines of the White House.
This is definitely a true thing that is happening.



"Mr. President, the African American Community is on line 1."