Natasha Rothwell Would've Tweeted at Trump for Years If She Had To

From Harper's BAZAAR

If you follow Insecure actress Natasha Rothwell on Twitter, you’ve most likely observed one hysterical constant in her tweets over the last four years: a daily, direct reminder to former president Donald Trump that he is, how Rothwell succinctly puts it, trash.

“It started off as a way to blow off post-election steam, but I quickly realized it was serving a very different and important purpose for me,” Rothwell tells BAZAAR.com. “It was a daily reminder that Trump being in office was not normal or okay. Every day, it was a call to action and a way to stay focused.”

Spend enough time on the social media site and you’ll see that it was rare she went a day without addressing Trump. And when the election was finally called in favor of now president Joe Biden, she switched her tweets to daily, direct reminders to the former president that trash day was coming. It was time for the Trumps to pack it up. He and his family would finally be leaving the oval office, making way for a new administration.

On Inauguration Day, we caught up with Rothwell to chat about how she’s feeling now that Trump is out of office, why she wanted to tweet at Trump every day, and what the response has been like from both her and Trump’s supporters.

Now that Donald Trump is out of office, how do you feel now that you’ll no longer have to tweet him every day?

Honestly, I haven’t even processed it. I’ve been too overwhelmed with relief and joy that a white nationalist domestic terrorist is no longer president of the United States.

What made you want to tweet Trump every day?

It started off as a way to blow off post-election steam. But I quickly realized it was serving a very different and important purpose for me—it was a daily reminder that Trump being in office was not normal or okay. Every day, it was a call to action and a way to stay focused.

Did you know you were going to tweet every day going into it, or did it sort of snowball?

It wasn’t at all premeditated. At first, I kept doing it because it felt good to speak truth to power, but it turned into a kind of daily meditative protest. Slacktivism at its finest, to be sure, but it did wonders for my mental health and seemed to bring joy to folx.

How did you remember to tweet every day?

Trump was president. I didn’t have to set reminders, because he’s trash—just unmitigated garbage, and every day he would inevitably do, say, or tweet something to remind all of us of that fact.

Did you miss any days?

Oh, I’m sure I did! But not many, it just organically became a part of my resistance regiment.

What was the response from your fans?

The response has been really overwhelming! I had no idea the daily drags were a source of joy for so many people or that folx were getting so much out of it. It makes my heart happy that something so small was able to do some good.

Did you ever get a response from the president? Or his supporters tweeting back in defense of him?

There were a ton of MAGA supporters and trolls that came for me in defense of him. So, while he never responded … I know he heard me. Hahaha!

If Trump had won … were you prepared to tweet for four more years?

I planned to tweet at him as long as he remained trash and president. One of those things is terminal, but if the other had remained true, I would have stayed the course.

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