AIBU or does Donald Trump need to stay off Twitter?

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Just what is going on in the world?

Many people want Nigel Farage as Britain's ambassador to the USA???

On what planet?

He has a very limited vocabulary.

It may be limited, but it's a great vocabulary. Because he knows the best words. Fantastic words.

Apologise!

I'd be very worried if I was American. He doesn't take criticism very well. A society should be able to criticise their President without worrying about repercussions.

Twitter shows that he doesn't take criticism well.

I'm Iinterested to know how that comedian taking the piss out of his wife is deemed racist.

We now also see that tbe trumpeteers love to dish it but really can't take it and are too stupid to counter any criticism beyond 'I know I am but what are you? SHUT UPPPP!!!!!!!!!'

Lweji

Trump is so un-presidential that it’s almost comedic.

I can see Trump and Farridge having a major fallout at some point. Farridge will be lashing into the brandies at lunch time and will make a wisecrack about Trump’s hair. Teetotal Trump will then huff and puff and tell him he’s a jackass. A bigly jackass.

Check out the latest 'presidential' tweets. Four years of this!

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"Great meetings"
quickly turns to
"Not nice"

Oh dear.

The fact that he's tweeting his disdain for anyone who dares to disagree with him or poke fun at him,his family or his advisers is extremely worrying. What will he do when he gets into office - have people publicly flogged. He thinks he's king of the USA.

It's embarrassing. But it's also quite clever in diversionary tactics. Announce you've settled your Trump University law suit? Tweet shit about Hamilton! News leaks that security for the Trump family is costing NYC $1 million PER DAY?! Tweet about Farage and manage to wind the British Govt up at the same time! Win win. He's a bloody tool.

America is really having a low point. The Trump effect is spreading. North Carolina's Republican senator is refusing to concede that he lost his seat and is making lots of unfounded claims of fraud.

Democracy is so 2012.

I think it's good: he's way more likely to be impeached this way. For example, I read somewhere if he deletes any of his tweets after inauguration then he's breaking the law. Is that true? ( I HOPE IT IS TRUE)

I'm more concerned with how the BBC have appeared to have turned into Farage's personal PR team. The man is unelected and is the interim leader of a one issue party which is no longer of use now they have achieved their aim.

Why then does he appear on their news channels every hour? He gets an unprecedented level of exposure on the BBC. They can't say it's in the interests of balance because nobody with an opposing view ever gets anywhere near as much airtime as him. What on earth is going on?

He's a dangerous lunatic. I rather hope he retains control of his Twitter account so everyone can see his terrifying ideas in black and white. God help us all.

He's doing it to distract from his lawsuits.

From Twotter...

Just when you think this year can't get any worse every day there's a new tweet from Trump to brighten your day

I waver between being very amused by the whole fiasco and being terrific WW3 breaking out over an offhand comment about a didgy hair transplant/gerbil/comb over/whatever the hell that weird thing is on his weird head is.

Four years of this! Except in one of those tweets DT says he's
getting together the team who will be running the country for 'the next 8 years'.

So he's totally counting on a second term. He really is delusional confident, isn't he?

I'd rather he made a twat of himself on Twitter than made a twat of himself as president. The former is not going to lead to nuclear war, for example.

Really though, most politicians and "celebrities" would do well to consider what they post before doing it. Because it's so easy to be a twat, and so hard to undo the damage.

I think even the most well-meaning of people would manage to stitch themselves up in the character-restrictive world of Twitter. So what chance have the likes of Trump, Farage, Corbyn or Sturgeon (et al) got?

So he's totally counting on a second term. He really is delusional confident, isn't he?"

I don't think him getting a second term is as far-fetched as him getting elected the first time though. What makes you think that the people who voted for him now (knowing full well what sort of person he is!) will have changed their tune in four years? "Better the devil you know" they might say, especially if the Democrats try a "risky" candidate like Michelle Obama. ("Risky" in that the people who didn't think a woman was fit for office are unlikely to think a (god forbid) BLACK WOMAN is!)

(Side issue: would it be better for the Democrats to go for a "safe" (ie white male) candidate next time, bearing in mind a certain section of the public would hate to see a woman in power? Would it be better to again try to have a woman such as Obama elected and accept that a large swathe of voters will reject them on a sexist and/or racist basis, or go all out with a "traditional" candidate to ensure Trump is removed?)

Don't get me wrong, if Trump does the sort of things we expect him to, and if the anti-Trump movement maintains their momentum, a second term is more than avoidable.

But I said the same about "Dubya".

Lincoln said " Better to say nothing, and be thought a fool, than speak, and remove all doubt" I don't think trump has heard this. As pp said its better we can see what goes on in his head ( I think)

I tend to think the importance of NF (quelle coincidence) has been overstated. Whenever he tried to get elected as an mp the constituents have had more sense and the contention that it was he (as distinct from backing from more serious politicians) who persuaded the country to vote brexit is at best unproven.

Agree Capricorn, the tweet has been headlong news all day long on the radio. Why?
How insulting for the current ambassador too (suppose he is the wrong kind of elite)

Farage as US ambassador - I think it's a brilliant idea.
Selecting important diplomatic staff on grounds of intelligence, negotiation skills and allegiance to their own country is so 2015.

In fact, let's ask all Heads of State to pick their own ambassador.

I'm thinking Putin would quite like Bear Grylls.