A twitterbot that turns Trump's tweets into official presidential statements is usefully jarring

Counterargument: twitter is saving america

Well, not entirely, but in the fight over the travel ban, Trump’s chronic inability to stay on message has been an enormous asset to the people fighting the ban. Twitter has been the primary conduit by which Trump has bypassed the message managers who are supposed to make his horrifying agenda presentable
I mean, he could also screw himself over in a television interview with Lester Holt, but twitter is still his primary way of defeating his own agenda

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