Some things are not to be believed.
Then again, in this highly fractured political and cultural environment right now, maybe this isn’t surprising at all.
Singer, actress and left-wing activist Bette Midler — fearing another victory for President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election — this weekend called for a shutdown of Trump’s Twitter feed until after the presidential election is over.
Midler declared to Twitter’s CEO and co-founder — billionaire Jack Dorsey — on Sunday that he would “help your country and the planet” if he were to “[kick] Trump off Twitter.”
But if Dorsey couldn’t do that, she went on, maybe he could have Trump “[shut] down [on Twitter] until the next election.”
She added a few other choice comments as well.
Here’s her tweet on the subject:
Dear #JackDorsey, why don’t you help your country & the planet, by kicking #Trump off #Twitter? Or shutting down until the next election? You’ve made more than enough money & Trump is strangling the free world w/his racist bile. Be strong! You can improve the course of history!
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 21, 2019
Immediate question: Is she also calling for a “Twitter shutdown” of the country’s most prominent Democrat politicians and/or 2020 candidates?
(Hmm. Why not?)
And this question: Is she also calling for a shutdown of her own Twitter feed?
And this one: How about a Twitter shutdown for other liberal Hollywood celebs — is she calling for that, too?
Of course not.
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And that wouldn’t be the answer to her “problems,” anyway.
Clearly this Hollywood celebrity thinks it’s somehow acceptable to try to snuff out a key way that the president — an American citizen and social media user, after all, just like everyone else — communicates with others. It’s utter fantasy.
She just doesn’t like his messages.
On Twitter, the president shares information, thoughts, insights and more directly with the American people — since, as he’s said so many times in the past, the “fake news” media cannot be trusted to represent his or others’ actions, activities, and statements accurately.
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