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Donald Trump Twitter latest: I am going to leave my... great business, President-elect announces over two tweets
Donald Trump Twitter latest: 'Cancel order!' tweet wipes $1bn off Boeing value
(7 days later)
Donald Trump's Twitter account has been a source of laughter, shock and derision ever since he started tweeting in 2009.
Donald Trump's Twitter account has been a source of laughter, shock and derision ever since he started tweeting in 2009.
Now the billionaire businessman has been elected leader of the free world however, his often bizarre tweets have taken on a whole new dimension.
Now the billionaire businessman has been elected leader of the free world however, his often bizarre tweets have taken on a whole new dimension.
Despite efforts by his team to stop him tweeting during his campaign, the President-elect has continued much in the same vein since winning the US election (see below). Shortly after his victory he attacked the New York Times, called protests against him "unfair", and claimed he could have won the popular vote if he wanted to.
Despite efforts by his team to stop him tweeting during his campaign, the President-elect has continued much in the same vein since winning the US election (see below). Shortly after his victory he attacked the New York Times, called protests against him "unfair", and claimed he could have won the popular vote if he wanted to.
Trump has most recently announced that he'll be "leaving" his "great business" to focus on running the coutnry. This follows a long period of speculation over his potential conflicts on interest as inauguration day nears.
Trump's latest tweet has attacked Boeing's plan to replace Air Force One with a new 747; specifically the "$4bn" he says it will cost.
Instead of releasing a statement, Trump made the interesting decision to stagger this news over two tweets, with a excrutiating "..." at the end of his first post leaving his followers on tenterhooks.
This tweet has caused Boeing's shares to slide, and reportedly wiped more than $1bn off the company's stock market value.
Trump has also addressed the attempted terrorist attack at Ohio State University on Monday. "Isis is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University, by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country," he tweeted on Wednesday morning, at 6.20 am.
His statement on the cost of replacing Air Force one also seems to be inaccurate. The Air Force has earmarked $1.65bn for two Presidential planes, each a four-engine Boeing 747-8.
While Trump is correct to begin with – Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack – Abdul Razak Ali Artan was in fact a lawful permanent resident in the US.
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TUESDAY 29/11/16
Trump has announecd a big new policy, floating the idea of jailing anyone who burns the American flag, or stripping them of their citizenship.
The idea isn't entirely new – in fact, Hillary Clinton co-sponsored a bill in 2005 that would have made flag burning a criminal act punishable by one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
But the loss of citizenship is certainly a new one. There are a number of ways you can lose it if you're a naturalised citizen, although they very rarely happen. The big question for Trump is what happens if you were born in the US and burn a flag? If you lose your citizenship, where will you be deported?
Before throwing out his flag burning law idea, Trump's tweets were focusing a lot on the popular vote and, in particular, him losing it by more than two million to Clinton. Although Trump doesn't seem to buy this.
Instead, the President-elect has been claiming election fraud, and that the system was against him in states where Hillary Clinton won by a comfortable margin.
That's right – even though Trump won the election, he still thinks it was rigged.
To support his claims, Trump manually retweeted a 16-year-old with the username "Seth", who wrote "Pathetic - you have no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter fraud, shame!".
Speaking to Gizmodo, Seth said it felt "incredible" to get such attention from the President-elect, and that if he wasn't so young he would consider a place in his cabinet.
