POTUS is now under fire for deleting a couple of past tweets openly backing Alabama State Attorney-General Luther Strange to win the republican primary for the state of Alabama. But Mr Strange lost. And so were Trump's supportive tweets when he deleted them.
The Presidential Records Act 1978 forbids any Presidential correspondence from being destroyed or deleted. The law also means that any tweets by the president are owned by The United States. There are a couple of avenues available if a President really wants to delete/destroy some kind of correspondence but it's A long and involved process hardly worth the bother.
My question is, do you think Trump should've deleted the tweets? I'll be honest and say that I think sometimes the media make mountains out of molehills where POTUS is concerned but I think he stepped over a line deleting those tweets. Of course there are screenshots of them all over the internet but that's not the point. They are missing from the record of the rest of his political tweets.
Wow. People would rather talk about the direction of toilet paper than politics? I should've known lol.
No place for the pres. Just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions
Your system seems to put the President on more of a pedestal that our PM enjoys.\
Part of that is being a constitutional monarchy. The PM is not, in fact, the highest executive. Her Majesty is, even if she mostly acts through her representatives (the Governor General federally and the Lieutenant Governors in the provinces). I'm not a fan of the monarchy (I'm more or less republican in the sense of wanting to get rid of the monarchy) but this is a benefit I'm willing to acknowledge.
I think we are also a bit more suspicious of politicians putting on airs. A PM who is too aloof and too remote tends to get critiqued for that. Even our present PM's father had a reputation for aloofness that son has kind of avoided, though that didn't stop him from becoming one of our longest serving leaders. Stephen Harper, our previous PM to this one, had a reputation for coldness that accompanied him throughout his decade or so as Conservative leader. Comedians hammered him mercilessly for it. However, it was more his public demeanour and rather authoritarian approach to leadership that created that. At the same time as our comedians were portraying him as a personality-less robot, he was fostering kittens from the Ottawa animal shelter in the PM's residence so there was clearly a heart beating in there somewhere.
It's. trap. I'm not falling for it
I'm not an attorney nor will I pretend to be one. Therefore I don't know the legalities of him deleting tweets which he has done on numerous occasions.
What I do know is that the 'fake media' aka 'enemy of the people' as he calls it, has a record of everything he's sent out. Also anything he tweets on his @RealDonaldTrump account, the white house states that they are 'official statements'.
Even though it seems most Americans want him to stop or curtail the tweets, I think he should continue because it gives us the opportunity to see what is really going on in his mind. Examples, an early Saturday morning tweet in which he accuses Obama of wire-tapping his office before the election. Or the out of the blue tweet saying transgenders will not be allowed to serve in the military, which caught everyone off-guard.
Let him tweet away so we know what he is really thinking. To quote Donald J. Trump, 'sad'.
seems mighty .petty question when there is division in this country . where young children are stolen to be made .slaves . where childhood hungry is rampant. .The press saved every one of his tweets so there is a record of them .
At this point, Trump has broken so many laws, it's getting hard to keep track of them. Since the Republicans refuse to do anything about it, he seems to be above the law, which is exactly how he thinks of himself.
Will someone please take away his twitter account....ughhhhhhh!!
Trump removed his tweets supporting the loser in the Alabama primary because he hates losing and wanted the record erased. He hates losing.
He tweets for many reasons. To vent. To undermine reporting that is critical of him by calling it fake news. To gloat. To burnish his ego. To leapfrog over legitimate media outlets and communicate directly with his supporters (often with information that is a blatant lie). To distract from issues and stories that he doesn't like and replace them with other stories. He uses the tweets to insult and demean, to belittle anyone who opposes him or his action.
Trump thrives on chaos and deception. He is an ultimate con man and knows how to manipulate his followers to believe him implicitly despite evidence to the contrary that they can read and see for themselves. This is like two children's stories: "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass". It is like the former in that a segment of the population will not accept what is in front of their eyes and ears and accepts what he tells them with no cognitive dissonance. One day they will see he is naked. It is like the latter in that down is up and up is down. Truth is fake news and lies are alternate facts (Kellyanne Conway).
Trump's tweets will be part of the historical record of his presidency and there is nothing he can do to stop that. With hindsight I have no doubt that they will see him as an entitled, petulant ignoramus.
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It would be seriously doubtful that deleting Tweets would ever lead to the impeachment of a president. But if it were just something to include showing a pattern along with much more serious issues then it could be a small factor.
Most likely future presidents will leave Twitter accounts under the control of their public relations staff to influence their agenda in a non-aggressive positive way.