![]() “I think Twitter,” one White House official told POLITICO, “is his diary.” From his brain to his phone to the world, the “ unfiltered” stream of 140-character blurts makes up the written record with which Trump is most identified. Trump’s Twitter timeline is the realest real-time expression of what he thinks, and how he thinks. They often are appalled by the content of the tweets, just plain weary like everybody else of the volume and pace of the eruptions and deeply worried about their consequences as well-but still, they say, the more Trump tweets, the better. The people, though, who want Trump to keep tweeting are the people who rely on his words to do their jobs-reporters, biographers, political scientists and strategists, and presidential historians. His tweeting, they all believe, is unseemly and incendiary, legally risky and chaotic, undiplomatic, demoralizing, destructive, and distracting, too-for everybody, but especially for Trump. A majority of business leaders want him to stop, and a majority of millennials, and a majority of voters, period. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and other Republican members of Congress and some Democrats in Congress and Jeb Bush and many of Trump’s advisers and attorneys and even some of his supporters (although not all of his supporters) want him to stop tweeting. ![]() ![]() Carly Fiorina wants him to stop tweeting. Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting. Lots of people want President Donald Trump to stop tweeting. Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for Politico.
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