The Haters
Christoph Rehage, 35, is one of the very Twitter users who annoy @ TylerDoor. “Be honest, your mental template on Trump is no matter what he does, it’s wrong,” @ TylerDoor t weeted to @ crehage earlier this week. “If you think he a villain [ sic], you’ll see fault everywhere.”
Rehage, a writer who splits his time between Germany and Central Asia, claims the distinction of having been banned from Chinese social media for his satirical posts about politics there. Now he’s engaging with @ realDonaldTrump, whom he disdains.
“I don’t have much to do during the day,” he said. “I’ve kind of figured out the time he gets online to do his t weet thing.” Rehage i s t ypically quick on the trigger when @ realDonaldTrump pops up with a new message, and he threads his replies together to form a longer string of messages.” I try not to use any profanity, not insult anybody,” Rehage said. “I try to expose a little bit of Donald Trump’s rhetoric and his way of thinking, the logical fallacies.”
Since he began tweeting at Trump about a month ago, Rehage has gained about 25,000 followers. He views his social media output as fulfilling a moral obligation. “I think being apolitical and not making yourself heard is wrong now,” he says. “When Donald Trump turned into the president, I figured this is something I cannot ignore anymore.”
Jordan Uhl, 29, posts more than a dozen tweets in a day — almost every one about Trump. “He repeatedly said he wants to use Twitter to communicate with the people,” Uhl says. “I’m one of those people. If he wants to talk to Americans via Twitter, Americans are going to talk back.” 2000 people, and her tweets are full of bright blue hashtags that signify the causes she cares about. The 62- yearold has tweeted at Trump about 500 times under the name @ Santis1De since late February.
Most of her output originates at her kitchen table, where she works for a few hours on Twitter and Facebook as a volunteer on the “social media sharing team” for Revolution Truth, a nonprofit activist organisation concerned with democratic governance. DeSantis identifies as an independent, and is relatively new to Twitter, with only a handful of followers. Still, SocialRank metrics put her among the elite at interacting with @ realDonaldTrump.
“Quite honestly, I had done a few tweets, I didn’t even really know that much about it,” she said of her status. “This has been one of my first adventures as far as tweeting goes.”
Her life in a relatively isolated, rural place makes Twitter one of the only ways DeSantis can feel she’s participating in the marches she sees happen elsewhere. “It’s easier for me, from my vantage point, to do it