Trump was the first terminally online president. So did anyone actually tweet their way into his inner circle and power?
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he was not terminally online, he was terminally watching tv and tweeting about tv
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Hmm interesting distinction 🤔 . Still feels like he was on here all the time, whatever the initial source.
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iirc he also consumed all the paper print newspapers... he was good at online manipulation but he is fundamentally an offline person, obsessed with seeing himself in old media, and with people he deals with in person
his main audience is also tv watchers who then find him online
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Hmm you're prob right, which makes this a missed oppty. Not even a pranay pathole, or an ambassador to france, much less a poaster secretary of state.
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I think we'll have to wait a few decades for a truly very online person to be a head of state

