Last night, for 11 magical minutes, Donald Trump didn’t have a Twitter account. It was shut down, and if you tried to read @realDonaldTrump’s tweets, you couldn’t find them. Political reporters were freaking out. Deplorables were freaking out. It felt, for a brief, shining moment, like the nightmare was over and that we don’t have to live in fear of our Deplorable emperor any longer. But then his Twitter came back online and The Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue continued unabated. So, what happened? As it turns out, a Twitter employee decided to do the MOST on his or her last day.
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
This is why people should go to work for Twitter. Don’t do it for the salary or the stock options or the memes or the Russian bots – do it so that one day, you can quit that job and deactivate several Deplorable accounts on your way out the door. The only problem is that Twitter corporate still reactivated Trump’s account, and now he’s smug about it:
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
“I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact…” WTF? Why does his every tweet read like some kind of deranged, immature threat? Trump then went on to suggest that the (OF COURSE) the real investigation should be about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, for reasons. Whatever, douche.
Just gonna say it, the employee at Twitter who shut off Trump's account for 11 mins could become a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) November 3, 2017
Dear Twitter employee who shut down Trump's Twitter: You made America feel better for 11 minutes. DM me & I will buy you a Pizza Hut pizza. https://t.co/ruzaVBcQp1
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 3, 2017
Whomever deactivated President Trump's Twitter for a good 11 minutes pic.twitter.com/ysUBH58Iri
— DKT (@darleneturner53) November 3, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
He did humanity a good service.
#Hero.
Not all heroes wear capes
👍🏻👏🏻 + infinity!
Why haven’t they banned him from Twitter permanently? He breaks all of the rules and puts our lives in danger every time his tiny hands hold the phone and his stubby fingers press “send”
For the same reason that the GOP does nothing. They’re all scared of him.
He should be suspended today. He called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.”
He’s a complete dildo brain and so are his supporters.
that’s the name he always calls her. twitter is spineless on this and won’t take action.
Cause in the end FB/Twitter/tumblr owners are only liberal until it hits their pockets. Did you see the article about them selling ad space to Russia during the election? or attempting to? They are complete sell outs as well
Apparently (CKNW) they identified the Russian contributions to twitter, facebook and instagram well BEFORE your election, and did NOTHING to stop. Surely that is a treasonus action, right there?
Why is it treasonous? They operated entirely within the law. The web is a global commodity and they are multi-national corporations. Why should they pick and chose who advertises as long as the ads meet their very limited criteria?
Facebook and Twitter are public companies and the hearings this week have made it very clear they are beholden only to their shareholders.
I have been reporting his racist and bullying tweets since he entered the race. For one glorious moment I thought Twitter finally did the right thing, but then I remembered they are entirely beholden to their shareholders and knew it was too good to be true.
thank you for reporting them. by doing that i know you’re making the sacrifice of not blocking him, so you’re probably seeing his tweets a lot.
i’ve had him blocked since the obama birther stuff and i just hate when people screenshot his tweets and then share the screenshots – stop getting around my block!
I ju$t can’t think of a $ingle rea$on. I really $orry that I don’t have a $ingle an$wer for you, but that’$ ju$t the way it i$.
$o $unny.
The hero we need but not one we deserved.
Give this employee all the awards.
Best tweet ever
https://twitter.com/winterjessica/status/926270231605055488
I’m so tired. Just tired. This man baby is exhausting. And he’s getting away with everything. I’m so angry and sad and worried. All the time. I need a vacation. From Trump, Trumpsters, and the GOP. Excuse the bit-hfest. But I had to vent.
No excuses necessary, we all feel the same.
@Rapunzel: I know. Please don’t feel like you need to apologize. We all feel that way and you articulated it well. We need to hang in there. This goddamn nightmare can’t last forever.
Just what we needed, more drama. People were speculating that since his reactivated account has fewer followers that they were purging all the bot accounts.
As unhinged and idiotic his tweets are, I prefer having his account active. Better to have his shenanigans out in the open than in the shadows. I also love reading the comebacks the resisters fire at his bigly ass.
On the one hand, I LOVE this Twitter employee and I did laugh my head off this morning.
On the other hand, the Orange One is running a Reality TV Presidency as it is, and we don’t need the Twatter helping it with another “plot twist”. It’s not healthy, this way of doing politics divorced from the real world (regardless of political affiliation).
I have to say I wish I could have been the one to do that. The employee showed the restraint that I am not sure I would have and stopped at only 45’s account.
The comebacks on his tweets are pure comedy. Every single time someone makes me laugh so hard I cackle out loud.
Agree, would rather have him on so that we know what’s truly going on in his mind as unhinged as it is.
The thing is, if he said half of his Tweets in private meetings, it would invite investigation or become even more massive international incidents. Because it’s Twitter we don’t take them seriously. Because it’s social media and it has a funny name. But the threats and false accusations and bigotry are real.
But the White House has said his tweets are official statements. Therefore we should take them seriously. NK as stated that Trump has declared war because of his tweets.
11 minutes of blessed silence. Thank you, anonymous Twitter employee who deserves a big, fat raise.
the best ‘this is my last day at this job’ Eff you
It really was a glorious last day gesture. I’d like to send her/him a thank you note and a box of chocolates.
I’m surprised Bigly hasn’t demanded that this person be investigated and locked up.
🙂
George Takei said it best –
“Trump’s Twitter deactivated for 11 min, and I suddenly thought I’d jumped back into the real timeline where things aren’t so damned absurd.”
So say all of us, George.
Best 11 minutes of the past year.
I find this both hilarious and thought-provoking. I mean, hasn’t he been yammering on and on about Clinton using personal, unsecured emails to conduct business. I’m just thinking if a private, disgruntled citizen can deactivate his account, well doesn’t it put it out there for a private, non-Twitter-employed citizen to hack Twitter/his account? 🤔I’m thinking Twitter has now been proven unsecure/unsafe for this presidents to use….. just like they feel about the email accounts Clinton used. I’m light of that, perhaps we shouldn’t hear one more word from his side about Clinton’s emails until he puts his money where his mouth is and ceases to use Twitter. What if every time he brings it up someone points out this Twitter incident where his personal account while president was attacked? I mean it’s very personal and now seems very unsecure…..😏. I SO wish this will be recommended to and put into action by him!🤞🏾
There’s a good read on Business Insider about why it’s terrifying what this employee did.
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-whats-terrifying-about-the-twitter-employee-who-temporarily-disabled-trumps-account-2017-11
I wake up every day thinking , “FFS, would someone take his Twitter away.” Truly think we’re going to have Nuclear Holocaust started via Twitter.
@Ripley
I just read the article ““ Perhaps the staffer might have had Trump say something idiotic or embarrassing.”🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😳Wait, were they serious?
LOL (sigh).
It is well known that his account could be hacked easily, especially as he insists on using a phone that cannot be secured. Also, Ivanka is using a personal email account for government work, including exchanges with the Treasury Department and computers at home that her nannies can access.
Like that thing hasn’t been hot-mic’d by foreign intel for over year.
And let’s not forget he freakin let the Russians into the Oval Office, so god only knows what kind of bug they have in there now.
Does everyone remember when Obama got elected and everyone freaked because he LOVED his Blackberry and didn’t want to get rid of it? The pearl-clutching that went on because OMG the president would have email and cell phone!
And now, we have THIS.
My thing is this far, nothing seems to have been breached so I can see us coasting carefree on that. But now the possibility has become reality and it’s really rich in light of all of T rump’s (🤔 typo and it STAYS!) incessant yapping about Hilary and unsecured, personal email. So his biggest soapbox might (and I think wisely should) become his new leash.
now, the government pretty much exclusively uses blackberries in an era where iphone and android are kings.
I would happily contribute to a fund for this former employee if she or he has any legal ramifications from this. Best 11 minutes since November, 2016.
Deleted, discovered and restored all in 11 minutes? ?? Hmmm…
This is why he should deactivate his account. The fact that some crazy person at Twitter could so easily manipulate it and tweet out something dangerous is horrifying.
Rather than the crazy person in the White House?
And how would we tell?!?
The Deplorables seem to think that having a twitter account is a human right or maybe they think that it’s written in your constitution. Twitter is a private company and can do whatever it wants, they could delete his account if they wanted to. If they needed to present a reason for it, then not wanting world war 3 is a pretty good one.
And for 11 minutes the collective blood pressure of America dropped
I learned about it the same time Senator Warren opened her stupid ass mouth and restarted the 2016 election drama, so sadly my numbers stayed steadily high.
Usually Warren is pretty sensible, but I’m baffled by this one. It sounds as though the poverty-stricken DNC cut a deal to share Hillary’s overflowing coffers (she apparently was doing a lot of successful separate fundraising) and in return for sharing the loot, she got control or maybe review rights for a lot of things. That’s not the same as rigging an election (which really means manipulating the vote), actually primaries are harder to manipulate because each state does them on a different schedule and in their own way. By sharing the funds, she would be funding her own opponents, including Bernie who (as much as I love him) was only a temporary Democrat. What she negotiated makes some sense when viewed that way.
In any case, it doesn’t sound like rigging anything, although I can see why Warren wouldn’t want it to become standard practice. Bernie did very well in the primaries, and if he had just done better then he would have been the nominee (although I think he would have been eaten alive in the general election). I don’t think the vote was affected by the unusual negotiation.
Ah yes, the never-ending drama of that ridiculous election. I always looked forward to getting to vote. I didnt vote last year. First election I could. Everyday it becomes clearer that we would have set ourselves on fire with any candidate 😩
Let me get this straight: You could have voted, you looked forward to voting, and yet you did not vote, because you found both candidates equally bad. Are you young? You have time to educate yourself.
http://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/political-science-prof-to-student-read-a-book-for-gods-sake/
Exactly, jwoolman. It’s only “rigging” an election if you’re a f*cking moron who doesn’t understand how candidate funding works or because you don’t understand COMMON SENSE POLITICS. If you want your candidate to be able to move forward legislative goals, you have to be able to prop them up with a Congress who will pass it. From what I estimate, at least half if not more of what she raised went into state Democrat races given the election totals reported. The reason she held on to it long enough is because she wasn’t allowed to release the funds until she was the official primary winner, and hey, guess what candidate delayed that disbursement by stubbornly refusing the drop out of the race until late in the game? Not that you’ll see the papers actually report that properly because it’s more fun to turn Hillary Clinton into the scapegoat for the party’s failure.
In a year where we have one of the most corrupt and dangerous administrations in our history in power, the last f*cking thing anybody on the Democratic side should be doing is alienating their voting base more than they should. And now we go into 2018 with Warren telling people the elections are rigged. At this point, if documents came out saying Warren was being paid under the table by the Republican party to sabotage her own, I would not be surprised because you couldn’t say anything more effectively dumb.
Edit: AND NOW THEY’RE REPORTING THAT BRAZILE IS A F*CKING MORON WHO CONFUSED TWO DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN JOINT FUNDING PROGRAMS. The one she actually meant to talk about was the August 2015, which was ALSO SIGNED BY BERNIE SANDERS. Oh my God, I just can’t with the media anymore. I just can’t.
Making twitter great again for 11 minutes. #thankyou
If twitter is against bullying, why does the Dotard still have his twitter account? Twitter banned Roger Stone for attacking Don Lemon and Ana C, why not ban the Dotard?
This story makes twitter look even worse. They restored his twitter account, will all it’s bullying posts? I’m not buying it. I think that the Dotard and WH were cleaning up his twitter account(there was something on his twitter account that was very incriminating), just like George P tried to clean up his FB account by deleting it and then replacing it with one that had less references to Russians.
What you say makes more sense than his account being stopped, discovered and repaired all in 11 minutes. Unless someone at Twitter is watching his account like a hawk, how oh how did it get fixed so fast? How many of us here would know who to call or how to contact Twitter with a problem, nevermind get instant service?
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.-The Dotard
So Stephen Miller and the Dotard were cleaning up the Dotard’s twitter account last night.
Ok, while funny let’s not get carried away with ourselves and call this nameless employee a hero. It was petty af, though certainly entertaining. Let’s hold off on the capes and Nobel Peace Prize nominations for the person (last day or not) who shuts his account down during the almost inevitable event of Trump tweeting us into a Nuclear War.
For 11 minutes, America was great again…
The last two words “Whatever, douche.” LMAO. That pretty much sums up this deranged nutcase.
Can’t he shut his pie hole for one freaking day?
No.
What with all those Hollywood stars who claimed to have been hacked after their nude photos showed up all over the place, I was surprised it took this long for someone to mess with Trump’s twitter account. And I too find it to be suspicious that it took only 11 minutes for his account to be restored.
Trump is exhibiting multiple symptoms of dementia. And yes, stress increases some symptoms. For anyone who has never experienced dementia first hand and up close, Trump’s behaviors are what it looks like. Not all of them, mind you. He surely started out disordered, even as a younger man. But he is obviously deteriorating before us.
Here is an interesting take on Trump, measuring dementia by studying speech patterns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CFwkoqxIs
I think Trump is doing his very best to not show that he is having “lapses”. It is not working and he is quite angry that it isn’t. Some of his utterances are almost pathetic – and I did say almost. The “I’m intelligent” and “I went to an Ivy League college” type of statements come off almost as pleas. At other times he is literally just babbling – inability to complete a sentence, snatches of thoughts, use of incorrect words, inability to find words, etc.
I dearly hope that his loved ones will urge him to resign soon. It cannot be good for Trump to be under the continuing pressure of the presidency, let alone the Russia investigation which as we know is only going to get worse. It’s a “real shyte show” as someone said.
After all, it is not as if a president has never resigned before.
I keep wondering what Trump and his cohorts are doing while the media chases Trump’s Tweets.
What is happening while the media focuses on the shiny object. Should I worry about what isn’t being covered while the media dissects Trumps latest Tweet ad infinitum?
The media focus on the shiny objects only when there is nothing better to report on. Many of them are openly scornful of the “shiny object stories”. But, hey, they need to talk about something to fill 24 hours on a 24 hour news channel.
We know what Trump is doing. At this point those directly around him will be scurrying about, attempting to keep him from putting his feet into his mouth like he usually does on his foreign trips. You know, things like pushing other heads of state aside, making inappropriate statements to a leader’s wife, etc.
I expect to see some major screw ups, due to the length of this trip and the reports that aides were having to feed information to Trump in small doses because he kept losing focus.
Trump looked terrible in the photos of them leaving this morning. He looks fat and tired and old. Melania looked lovely.
Usually the breaking news happens on Friday, but not today.
The press is reporting that Mueller has enough evidence to charge Flynn and his son.
The Prince of Saudi Arabia(who is a big Dotard supporter) is taking action against his political opponents and rivals. He had 11 princes arrested under the pretense that he was cracking down on corruption. One of the men he had arrested openly criticized the Dotard.
The Dotard asked why Japan’s Samurai warriors didn’t shoot down NK missiles.