U.S. President
Donald Trump mentioned in an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave
Portnoy taped this Thursday, that he often regrets his tweets and retweets. He has also been a subject of criticism over the way he uses his Twitter account, the
concern of which he expressed in the interview as well. The President is known
for tweeting and retweeting controversial messages on Twitter.
“We
put it [the tweet] out
instantaneously, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls, ‘Did
you really say this?’ I say, ‘What’s wrong with that?’ And you find a lot of
things.”, the President
went on to say in the interview. Then he continued, saying that the tweets are
not really the problem, but the retweets.
Trump had also mentioned similar things in an interview last year, where he said that some of his tweets caused trouble for the White House.
Among his
controversial retweets was a recent tweet that he had shared, consisting of a video
showing a Trump supporter yelling “white power” in response to protestors. Trump
later on deleted the tweet which was followed by an explanation from the White House
that the president had not “heard” the phrase when he shared the video.
Another tweet by
the president that caused him trouble was about criticism against the Minneapolis
protestors. The message in the Tweet said “when the looting starts, the
shooting starts”. The phrase was actually used by a Miami police chief while
cracking down on protests, which Trump denied having the knowledge of.
Earlier this month,
Trump shared yet another controversial tweet showing a game show host that
allegedly said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others were
lying about the coronavirus in order to harm Trump’s chances of reelection.
Trump also added in
the interview that he believed that Twitter is a powerful tool for messaging
and that he personally uses it to cut against “fake news”.
