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Politico: John Kelly's losing battle with Trump's Twitter feed
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/29/trump-twitter-fringe-websites-270490Twitter has allowed the president to continue accessing fringe websites and viewing racist videos simply by scanning his “mentions,” according to two former aides who have observed how he uses the site. Trump doesn’t use the direct-message function on the website, which would allow people he follows to privately share links with him — but he often looks at tweets that mention his handle, and picks up links and videos there.
The conversation on Twitter then often dictates his thinking. “Everybody’s talking about this,” he will tell his top aides in the West Wing, referring to a clip or an article he saw circulating among the small group of Twitter users he follows.
On Wednesday morning, the failure of Kelly's attempt at information control was on the fullest display since he accepted the job. Trump retweeted three inflammatory videos that claimed to portray Muslims performing violent acts. None of the videos were independently verified, but they claimed to depict Muslims destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, pushing a teen off a roof and beating him to death, as well as one video with the headline, “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" The clips were retweeted from the feed of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of a British ultranationalist party.
People close to Trump said that while his longtime aide and social media director Dan Scavino and his eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., in the past have been responsible for sharing with the president more inflammatory content and articles from alt-right websites, Wednesday’s tweets were posted before 7 a.m. — earlier in the morning that Scavino typically interacts with the president. It appeared the videos came across the president’s feed via conservative activist Ann Coulter, one of the 45 individuals whom Trump follows on Twitter, who had retweeted one of the videos herself the day before.
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The conversation on Twitter then often dictates his thinking. “Everybody’s talking about this,” he will tell his top aides in the West Wing, referring to a clip or an article he saw circulating among the small group of Twitter users he follows.
On Wednesday morning, the failure of Kelly's attempt at information control was on the fullest display since he accepted the job. Trump retweeted three inflammatory videos that claimed to portray Muslims performing violent acts. None of the videos were independently verified, but they claimed to depict Muslims destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, pushing a teen off a roof and beating him to death, as well as one video with the headline, “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" The clips were retweeted from the feed of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of a British ultranationalist party.
People close to Trump said that while his longtime aide and social media director Dan Scavino and his eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., in the past have been responsible for sharing with the president more inflammatory content and articles from alt-right websites, Wednesday’s tweets were posted before 7 a.m. — earlier in the morning that Scavino typically interacts with the president. It appeared the videos came across the president’s feed via conservative activist Ann Coulter, one of the 45 individuals whom Trump follows on Twitter, who had retweeted one of the videos herself the day before.
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Was never winning a battle vs fatso in the first place. He's just like tRump. Only more sneaky with his S.H.I.T 
and defiling the memory of his own son again. That seemed to help last time.
