Portland Stabbing: Donald Trump Finally Responds Amid Public Outcry

[demmiblue]

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump acknowledged the deadly stabbing in Portland on Monday after journalists and the American public urged him to speak out about the incident.

“The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/them,” Trump tweeted. However, he sent the message from the official presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, which has 18 million followers, rather than his personal Twitter account, @RealDonaldTrump, which has nearly 40 million followers.

http://www.newsweek.com/portland-stabbing-trump-responds-public-outcry-617076

[kimbutgar]

1. Obviously he didn't write it

Some flakey in his office did.

[luvMIdog]

3. I was typing the same thing as you were while yours was posting lol

[luvMIdog]

2. and he couldn't be bothered to say that on camera. Someone else probably tweeted it for him

[leftstreet]

4. 'unacceptable?'

Good God

[justiceischeap]

5. Notice it's on the @POTUS account

which doesn't have near as many followers.

[CakeGrrl]

6. Well, since a good chunk of those 40 million @RealDonaldTrump followers are

probably either white nationalists or Russian bots, you don't want to play this message to the wrong audience.

[demmiblue]

7. Exactly. n/t

[dalton99a]

8. Bingo.

[demmiblue]

9. Just an FYI, Newsweek made an error regarding the number of followers...

of the @RealDonaldTrump account (it is 30.9 million followers).