This report from the Boston Globe is kinda devastating. Word has it President Trump doesn’t always write his own tweets.
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN A LIE.
Word has it he has ghostwriters who carefully craft his tweets in ways that SOUND like him. In other words, they’re not actually written BY him. He’s not waking up early in the morning and tweeting the first thing that comes to his brain every single day.
But before you TOTALLY freak out, please note that the report didn’t definitively say that this is ALWAYS the case. Trump might craft some tweets on this own. Sometimes. Maybe.
But it’s not always Trump tapping out a Tweet, even when it sounds like his voice. West Wing employees who draft proposed tweets intentionally employ suspect grammar and staccato syntax in order to mimic the president’s style, according to two people familiar with the process.
They overuse the exclamation point! They Capitalize random words for emphasis. Fragments. Loosely connected ideas. All part of a process that is not as spontaneous as Trump’s Twitter feed often appears.
Presidential speechwriters have always sought to channel their bosses’ style and cadence, but Trump’s team is blazing new ground with its approach to his favorite means of instant communication. Some staff members even relish the scoldings Trump gets from elites shocked by the Trumpian language they strive to imitate, believing that debates over presidential typos fortify the belief within his base that he has the common touch.
Wait…so the typos are purposeful? I refuse to believe that covfefe was purposeful.
ANYWHO. Here’s how the process supposedly goes down. It’s pretty simple. Staffers compose a few tweets and Trump chooses the best one. The end.
Trump then picks the one he likes best, according to the two people, neither of whom wanted to be named because they’re not authorized to talk about the operations. Sometimes Trump will edit the wording and sometimes he’ll just pick his favorite for blasting out to his 52 million Twitter followers.
While staff members do consciously use poor grammar, they do not intentionally misspell words or names, one person familiar with the process explained.
“Tweets that are proposed are in his voice,” said one of the people. “You want to do it in a way that fits his style.”
I guess there’s no way to confirm this entire report. If you want to believe that Trump composes ALL of his tweets, go for it. I still tend to believe he crafts SOME of them. And at the end of the day, he’s not approving tweets he disagrees with, so it’s still his voice and his opinion. Right?
h/t The Boston Globe
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