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| Donald Trump Twitter latest: US flag burners should... lose citizenship? President-elect freestyles new law | |
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| 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. 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. 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. |
| Mr Trump has most recently tweeted out a pretty big new policy idea – jailing anyone who burns the American flag, or stripping them of their citizenship, maybe? | |
| The idea isn't entirely new – in fact, Hillary Clinton co-sponsored a bill in 2005 that would have criminalised flag burning. But the loss of citizenship is certainly a novel 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 are you supposed to go then? | |
| Before throwing out his flag burning law idea, Trump's tweets have focused on the popular vote and, in particular, him losing it by more than two million. Although Trump doesn't seem to buy this. Instead, the President-elect has been claiming election fraud, and that the system was rigged against him in states where Hillary Clinton won by a comfortable margin. | |
| That's right – Trump won the election and, unless his latest string of erratic tweets is some sort of diversion tactic, he still thinks it was rigged. | That's right – Trump won the election and, unless his latest string of erratic tweets is some sort of diversion tactic, 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!". | 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. | 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. |
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