Trump's Social Media Executive Order Is a Confession of His Ignorance

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

With more than 100,000 Americans now dead from the coronavirus, President Trump has spent this week doing what he does best — ignoring the crisis and instead railing against invented demons. This week’s demon is Twitter, the social media platform that the president normally uses to his great advantage, peddling falsehoods and conspiracy theories to stoke right-wing rage.

But on Tuesday, Twitter meagerly pushed back. After the president claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to rampant fraud, Twitter labeled two of his tweets with “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.” Following that link sent readers to a CNN article that tells the truth about mail-in voting — that election fraud is vanishingly rare. (And on Friday morning, just as this piece was being finished, Twitter added a third disclaimer to a Trump tweet, this time about glorifying violence.)

Of course, this most modest form of fact-checking from Twitter enraged the president. On Wednesday, he railed against censorship, threatened to shut down social media platforms, and said that Twitter was stifling free speech. And Thursday, the president followed through on one of his Wednesday threats, signing an executive order that he claims will “fight online censorship by tech corporations, including social media platforms.”

How to make sense of all of this, the president of the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths and cases (by many multitudes) ignoring the tragedy and instead using his resources to pick a fight with the social media platform that he himself uses as an essential part of rallying his followers? Well, it’s hard to do so without understanding this central facet of the Trump presidency: His bluster usually does nothing other than show that he doesn’t understand how law or the Constitution works. Here, he has managed a rare triple-axel of idiocy.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-twitter-fact-check-free-speech-executive-order-consitution-1007123/

Oh please diaper Don. I received two Twitter suspensions for stuff less offensive than the crap you spew.

[The Wizard]

1. A reflection of his weakness.

[BComplex]

2. Trump is a loser. In every way. He's repulsive in every way.

His cult is so friggin' FUBAR.

[soothsayer]

3. Actually it's just his bratty playbook in action

1) Try to make life miserable or cause trouble for something or someone he doesn’t like

2) Distract you from looking at other horrible stuff he’s up to

[Brainfodder]

4. He's been confessing his ignorance every day since at least 1/20/17?

I want pain and suffering payments for everyone not in the richest 400 families!

Cargills have 14 billionaires in the family, ENOUGH!