I wish we, as a society, could all just agree that tweets aren't news

[Bucky]

[elleng]

1. and sure as hell aren't LAWS!

I hope future presidents won't use them AT ALL.

[defacto7]

2. I totally agree.

[Codeine]

3. Well, when policy decisions

and Administration positions are announced via tweet then those tweets are, by definition, news. We don’t have to like it, but there it is.

[Bucky]

7. We'll be putting up "Miss me yet?" Trump memes when President Nugent governs thru Snapchats

[Ms. Toad]

8. Not to mention when people are fired by tweets, as well. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

5. I wish Twitter would shut down his account permanently.

Give us all some peace.

[VOX]

6. Running the country via social media is unnecessarily corrosive, and it cheapens the presidency.

It's just a ripplingly bad idea to do it.

[FakeNoose]

9. Absolutely

Tweets aren't news and they don't (shouldn't) replace Presidential policy either.

Anyone who couldn't see it before the orange asshole can certainly see it now. I wish we could somehow ban the reporting of tweets here on DU. But I guess that isn't gonna happen. All we're doing is making the whole thing worse than it already is.