I think House Democratic Speaker Pelosi might be responsible for this off the fucking wall thinking by Donald Trump….
First she reveals she’s worried the guy wouldn’t give up the office if he doesn’t like the vote/electoral college total’s next November….
Now we the fool mumbling about wanting a extra two years on his first term because he was and is being investigated?
Is he kidding us?
I sure hope so…
Because if he ain’t?
President Donald Trump on Sunday floated the idea of extending his constitutionally limited time in office, complaining online that two years of his first White House term were “stollen” as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“I now support reparations — Trump should have 2 yrs added to his 1st term as pay back for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup,” Jerry Falwell Jr., a conservative religious leader and Trump ally, tweeted in a message reposted by the president.
Trump echoed Falwell’s sentiment in a pair of tweets an hour later, writing online: “Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stollen two years of my (our) Presidency (Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back.”
He added: “The Witch Hunt is over but we will never forget. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The president’s retweets regarding an extended stay in the Oval Office follow a New York Times report on Saturday in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was concerned that Trump would refuse to give up power in 2020 if he lost reelection by a narrow margin…..
image….Vanity Fair….
Trump Hauls Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to the Oval Office, Wants to Know Why He Doesn’t Have More Twitter Followers
By ELLIOT HANNON (Slate)
Tuesday, APRIL 23, 2019 10:22 PM
President Trump met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in the Oval Office Tuesday because the president has successfully concocted a narrative that he and his far right Twitter buds are somehow getting unfairly censored on the platform. There are number of covert methods of online crowd control with creative names, like shadow banning, that conservatives believe they are unfairly the victim of. The practice, like all of the digital boogeymen they see, surreptitiously buries their messages, tweets, posts, and the like with an invisible digital anchor of sorts, making it hard to get their message of love and unity out to the world. You don’t have to know much more than that to know that sounds like a conspiracy theory Donald J. Trump might like a crack at. Unsurprisingly, Trump has really run with the idea that he’s the real victim here, despite practically owing his presidency to the platform.
Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have “hatred… for a certain group of people that happen to be in power, that happen to have won the election,” President Trump said. https://t.co/QjBSDjF2XG pic.twitter.com/ZgMJ577pKr
— CNBC (@CNBC) March 19, 2019
There are a lot of serious issues facing social media and its role in our body politic, economy, and society writ large. Plenty for a president to chew over with the head of one of the most influential social media companies in the world. Here’s a preview of what Trump had on the brain going into the meeting:
“The best thing ever to happen to Twitter is Donald Trump.” @MariaBartiromo So true, but they don’t treat me well as a Republican. Very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on. Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people. Different names-over 100 M…..
…..But should be much higher than that if Twitter wasn’t playing their political games. No wonder Congress wants to get involved – and they should. Must be more, and fairer, companies to get out the WORD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019
Flash forward to Tuesday: “A significant portion of the meeting focused on Trump’s concerns that Twitter quietly, and deliberately, has limited or removed some of his followers,” a person with direct knowledge of the conversation told the Washington Post. “Trump said he had heard from fellow conservatives who had lost followers for unclear reasons as well.”
Donald Trump, a non-user of email, has noticed a glitch in the Twitter matrix. So what accounts for Trump’s drop in followers? One thought would be the Russian bots that disappeared into dust following the 2016 election. In fact, Twitter has made a concerted effort to clean up fake accounts, which likely accounts for the decline. Obama lost millions of followers in the Twitter bot purge.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/trump-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-white-house-oval-office-meeting-bots-followers.html