TRUMP DEFENDS HIS USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN TWEET BLITZ
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, whose offensive posts on Twitter have troubled even family and supporters, has defended himself against fresh criticism over his use of social media being unpresidential and tweeted on Saturday he has been “modern day presidential”.
Trump also escalated his war with media, saying, “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I’m president and they’re not.”
“My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL,” he tweeted earlier, pushing back against criticism of his tweets about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, hosts of Morning Joe programme on MSNBC network.
Referring to a meeting with the two anchors at Mar-a-Lago in December 2016, Trump posted a tweeted in which he called them “psycho Joe” and “low IQ crazy Mika”, and then, wrote that Brzezinski “was bleeding badly from a face-lift”.
Outrage was swift and brutal, even from Republican lawmakers. “It’s unworthy of the office of President of the United States,” Senator Susan Collins said. And Adam Kinzinger of the House of Representatives, said “that’s a tweet that’s not even becoming of a city councilman”.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted a video — bizarre even by his standards — showing him knocking down and beating a professional wrestling “villain” whose face had been replaced by a CNN logo.
A statement by CNN read, “Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is instead involved in juvenile behaviour far below the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his.”