This is what Donald Trump’s family thinks about his Twitter presence
Donald Trump has tweeted hundreds of insults at people and places, and even gone after a Neil Young song. He’s retweeted comments by neo-Nazis and a supporter who shared an unflattering photo of Ted Cruz’s wife. But ask his family what they think about his social media presence, and they just laugh it off.
During a Tuesday night town hall conversation with Trump, his wife, Melania, and his children Ivanka, Tiffany, Eric and Donald Jr., CNN host Anderson Cooper took a moment reflect on the reality TV star’s infamous tweets.
“Are there some days you wake up and you look at Twitter and you think, really?,” Cooper asked the family, provoking a round of laughter.
“It kind of makes him the person he is, honestly,” Donald Trump Jr. said. “It’s so great to not see the traditional politician sound bites that you read too often. He’s so authentic. He writes the tweets himself. He doesn’t have a team of hundreds of hundreds of people behind him, and I think that’s actually what makes him the great candidate that he is.”
“Melania, do you ever want to say to him, put the mobile device down?” Cooper asked.
“Anderson, if he would only listen,” she said. “I did many times. And I just say ‘OK, do whatever you want.’ He’s an adult, he knows the consequences.”
Trump, who said he’d likely tweet very little if elected president, also revealed the process behind his tweets.
“During the day I’m in the office,” he said. “I just shout it out to one of the young ladies who are tremendous office staff — Meredith, and some of the people that work for me — and I’ll just shout it out and they’ll do it. But during the evenings, after 7 o’clock or so, I will always do it by myself.”
Excuse us while we pour one out for Meredith, who officially has one of the least appealing jobs in New York.
