Mr. Trump, 69, is an improbable virtuoso of the tweet. He has no computer in his office (a staff member brings in a laptop to show him videos) and asks aides to print his emails for consumption the old-fashioned way. But around 2011, his staff turned him on to the possibilities of@realdonaldtrump, a sleepy account started in 2009 that largely quoted from Mr. Trumpâ„¢s books.
He quickly adapted to Twitter™s stock in trade: endless feuds, ego stroking and casual cruelty. He usually dictates messages to his assistant during the day and types them himself at home or on the golf course, from which he has sent more than 100, according to geographic data embedded in his tweets. The most frequently used words in his tweets: great (more than 700 times), winner or winners (43), and loser or losers (34). In all, he has sent more than 28,000 tweets †the rough equivalent of 12 a day.
Mr. Trump has called Arianna Huffington, the liberal website publisher, unattractive both inside and outÂ; described Bette Midler as extremely unattractiveÂ; and declared that President Obama had guaranteed you wonâ„¢t see another black president for generations.Â
Is there anything incorrect about what the Donald said? No.