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| 'I will be leaving my …': Trump tweet triggers fill-in-the-blank challenge 'I will be leaving my …': Trump tweet triggers fill-in-the-blank challenge | |
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| When Donald Trump announced he would be leaving his business interests “in total” via a series of tweets on Wednesday morning, he initially seemed to leave some of the key words hanging. In response, Twitter users offered their own suggestions to finish his sentence. | When Donald Trump announced he would be leaving his business interests “in total” via a series of tweets on Wednesday morning, he initially seemed to leave some of the key words hanging. In response, Twitter users offered their own suggestions to finish his sentence. |
| In the first tweet in the series, sent at 6.39am on 30 November, the president-elect teased a “major news conference” with his children to be held in New York City on 15 December “to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my …” | In the first tweet in the series, sent at 6.39am on 30 November, the president-elect teased a “major news conference” with his children to be held in New York City on 15 December “to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my …” |
| As Twitter has a character limit, Trump was using an ellipsis to indicate a connection between his separate tweets and followed up with three others. But many took his punctuation as an invitation to speculate over what the president-elect would be leaving. | As Twitter has a character limit, Trump was using an ellipsis to indicate a connection between his separate tweets and followed up with three others. But many took his punctuation as an invitation to speculate over what the president-elect would be leaving. |
| @realDonaldTrump position as president? Do it! | @realDonaldTrump position as president? Do it! |
| @realDonaldTrump wife? | @realDonaldTrump wife? |
| @realDonaldTrump wife for the arms of Mike Pence? | @realDonaldTrump wife for the arms of Mike Pence? |
| @realDonaldTrump ... Liver to charity? | @realDonaldTrump ... Liver to charity? |
| @realDonaldTrump brain in the bathroom... | @realDonaldTrump brain in the bathroom... |
| @realDonaldTrump hair to science? | @realDonaldTrump hair to science? |
| @realDonaldTrump Twitter account? | @realDonaldTrump Twitter account? |
| @realDonaldTrump ... country? | @realDonaldTrump ... country? |
| @realDonaldTrump ...planet. | @realDonaldTrump ...planet. |
| @realDonaldTrump ...Universe? | @realDonaldTrump ...Universe? |