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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/media/comcast-president-trump-abuse-of-power/index.htmlNew York (CNN)President Trump on Saturday told his Twitter and Facebook followers to drop Comcast -- an egregious use of his presidential platform to hurt an American business.
For the most part, people just shrugged. Comcast executives barely batted any eyelashes. The company didn't bother to comment. And Google searches for "Comcast customer service" trended lower than in recent days.
Still, the president's missive was yet another example of his yearslong effort to punish media companies for news coverage he doesn't like.
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Saturday's anti-Comcast post received fewer than 10,000 retweets in 10 hours. On Facebook, where it was reposted, it received fewer than 7,500 comments. One of the comments with the most reactions said, "You spend way too much time on social media."
Strangely, his post was a reaction to a three-year-old tweet by former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee, who wrote in 2017 that the mafia has "better service than Comcast."
"Sure they shoot you, but it's over with and they don't charge you for the bullet," Huckabee riffed.
It was unclear how the old tweet suddenly grabbed the president's attention. But he wrote in response, "Concast is known for its terrible service. On top of that they provide FAKE NEWS on MSDNC & @NBCNews. Drop them and go to a good provider!"
at140
(6,110 posts)and take advantage of specials.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)to try to harm a private company's business - as he's also been trying to do to Amazon. Comcast doesn't even control the content of the channels it carries, but I suppose he'd want them to dump everything but Fox and OANN.
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)GusFring
(756 posts)kentuck
(111,051 posts)Whomever he dislikes today may have to suffer the consequences?
Runningdawg
(4,509 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Comcast is the only game in town here, and in many other places.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)Comcast. Internet service is too expensive.
Glamrock
(11,787 posts)1) Ive had Comcast for probably close to 20 years. Are they expensive? Yeah, Im down to internet only. But they are reliable as shit. I lose connection less than once a month and usually for no more than 15 minutes. And usually between 2-4 am....when they are upgrading equipment.
2) I hope Comcast sues the shit out of him.
malaise
(268,664 posts)That is all
nakocal
(544 posts)Russian controlled bots form a large part of Trump's twitter followers and retweeters.