WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after Twitter Inc for the first time added a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact check the president’s claims.
Representatives for Twitter and Facebook could not be immediately reached for comment on Trump’s tweets. Shares of the companies were down in pre-market trading following his posts.
POTUS You want to preserve Free Speech by taking Freedom of Speech away from Americans who aren't your sycophants? That's not how it works.
Wow! Finally someone is checking his lies! Now he wants to shut down Twitter?! He is sounding more and more like the dictator he is striving for. 🤞he can’t do anything about it! What a 🤡! 😂
Twitter is so bias you can smell their liberal stink a mile away. Nobody should be fooled here about what they are attempting to do. The guy who is their integrity checker is a complete joke. All you have to do is read his prior statements.
Threatens? He wouldn't dare. What an ass.
And he's using facts and models to help USA citizens. coronavirus
New headline: Toddler Trump Throws Tantrum Threatens Twitter!!!
Man we need a censor on trump! Wants to take away freedom of speech. ! Dictator!
Trump is a fascist...
Twitter is at least not important as you as the President use the DOJ to end these senseless police shooting of Black Men. I was raised by a police officer and there is nothing in their code book to put a knee on someone's neck!
realDonaldTrump. It would be better to shut Twitter down. It's crawling with one eyed liberal fascists, intent on silencing voices that expose their lies and hypocrisy.
Twitter needs to continue to check the lies.
Threats to shut down social media but uses social media to send the threat. Hmmmmmmmmm?
Dumpster fire is getting hotter everyday and I love it. Keep burning hot until you’re done.
How about, YES. Please go right ahead and shut them down. Go for it. Do it. Sooner the better
If he shuts Twitter, how will the bot armies spread right-wing bullshit? When this plan of his fails, will the Nazis finally leave Twitter? Imagine a Twitter without Trump supporters....
The worst dictator is a childhood spoiled one.
So is he finally moving from Twitter to Tiktok?
FakeNews needs a fact check on every word the spew
Trump sure never ever runs out of BS to get media attention!
If he was a true politician he would risen above all this, but he's not. He comes across as a spoiled brat who throws his toys out of the pram if he doesn't get his own way.
IdiotInChief
Shaking in his boots.
Twitter from the Democratic Party 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Australia, can we NOW separate ourselves from America - here's our chance. I'm sure they won't notice!
All realDonaldTrump has to do is stop lying and making false accusation and Twitter won’t have to censure him. I know it’s hard for someone who has being deceitful, nefarious and untrustworthy his whole life. America deserves better
Wait, so twitter can add a fact checker to his tweets but they still can't figure out an edit button?
Just shut down all Trumps Accounts he won't know the difference. IDIOTS are arrogant, not smart.
You know why Trump will lose woefully against social media? His thought is premeditated in repulsive anger,and in exergerations of his revenge dinamism.
POTUS realDonaldTrump just wants to be a dictator and can not deal with real life. He must go
All social medias will take Trump to court in one umbrella. And Trump will loose with huge costs,probably Running into several billions of dollars as cost settlements.
You couldn't make it up!
I think Trump is a bot who lives on social medias
This is hilarious on more ways than one, especially coming from someone who conducts foreign policy on the very same platforms he threatens to limit.
Sounds like a move toward tyranny on Trump’s part
Liars hate to be called out. Trump is a consummate liar.
Old news,- Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping did this many years back!
Pretty sure Trump won’t shut down Twitter. What then would he do with all his time? 🤷♀️🤦🏼♀️
Even though Trump (the main fake news producer) doesn't use Twitter, he remained a twit forever.
Finally Twitter and jack do something responsible with all of the misinformation being spouted out by the president.
Trump: We will strongly regulate them and Shut them down' Wake up Republicans ! This is starting to sound like China !!!
Trump is by far, the most Dangerous POS to our Democracy and the Health of These United States of America. The POS wants to control the Media and Social Platforms that aren’t loyal to his narrative. Our founding fathers fought to get rid of Kings and Dictators in America.
Always fact check this compulsive liar. Wake up America
Old babyfingers had a tantrum and threw the toys out the crib, they say.
The land of the free was laughing at other countries' Presidents. Look what she now has a President. Walks back alot of things, doubling down is his modus operandi, misleading his followers, 'medical expert & scientist too', egotistical, etc
Why is Twitter adding commentary to POTUS tweets? They feel that some of us need to be pointed to what we should think.
So, he can do whatever, say whatever & when companies are trying to protect ppl from getting influenced by false information he wants to shut them. Last I heard US practices democracy.
He'll never shut it down. He'd have no platform to bitch on then!
DonTheCon fears facts.
First good idea he's had in months - he does know that the next president is going to use that power too? :) TwitterIsOverParty TwitterDown
then how he will campaign digitally during this pandemic and social distancing norms ? 😂😂😂
That's a lie. He didn't say that.
Bravo Twitter, what you did was right, he had it coming, long overdue!
Love to see him try. Cut off his own supporters from seeing his lies on FB, Twitter, etc. That's definitely gonna help him win. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Big bully. Setting a very bad example.
Um, he can't do that. That's what you should report.
TrAmp's ego needs social media. Good luck regulating social media you fascist.
They can always move to China, India or Europe...
He also said he was going to build a border wall. And that Mexico would pay for it. And that Covid would go away like a miracle. And that Obama wasn't born in the US. And that he was awarded Man of the Year in Michigan. And, and, and, and......
He is a hooligan
How will he do that
Trump wants to be able to lie with no accountability... sounds about right
He's going to shut down Twitter? Such a 🤡
Another example if how little he knows about what he can actually do.
Ooops account deleted. twittertrump blocktrump
You can not! Don’t lie!!
He’s not a freaking tyrant running some kind of kingdom.
Such a blowhard. If you think you have the power, go ahead and regulate.
lol, fight against faux censorship with actual censorship. we are definitely living in crazy time.
The guy is a shame to the office.
View from UK - Watch out your heading for a Police state
A lesson learned, from the Prince of SaudiArabia and the Sheik from UAE, 'our New friends in the Mideast'.
Again Trump tries to silence anyone who points out his lies.
And this is not abuse of powers?
Jajajaja....fakedonald
The Republican Party sees the people of our nation as nothing more than livestock... dirty animals to work until dead. Come November we change this! 100,299 dead Americans, remove these Grifters from office.
Your lying to deflect your heinous job as potus won’t work!!! You are a cheater and a thief and we know it!!
He ever so hates it when people prove him wrong by showing facts.
Totalitarianism
tyranny.
Twitter has taken its sweet time to implement this. Soany opportunities in the past 3 plus years squandered. Hope Twitter has the balls to resist and continue to expose this fraudulent lying bastard Trump.
Those who spew lies and nonsense hate facts.
He sounds more like a dictator every day.
Regulating private companies. That's so leftist. I'm guessing his cult members are furious at him... Lmao
Hummm
So he's upset about 'free speech' but wants to shut the platforms down that give people a voice What a fucking hypocrite. All b/c they called him out on being a liar in a passive aggressive way? He's passive aggressive - can dish it out but not take it, huh?
Twitter kann ohne Trump aber Trump ohne Twitter?😬 Ein Tw. verbot wäre Eigentor...
Sources for “fact checking” must be considered. I say allow ALL blue check marks to be fact checked by ALL media sources as well as citizen journos. Isn’t that what Twitter is for jack ?
Hey, sounds like Erdogan !
Fact Check: Trump is a compulsive liar! Trump is Not king of America!
Boy, if THEY had ONLY KNOWN about NET NEUTRALITY?!?
He just have to stop posting lies on twitter.
Lol!
NOT platforms. PLATFORMS do not fact check, edit, or ban. They are PUBLISHERS... full stop.
Good luck with that realDonaldTrump you already broke your Oath. Jail time trump
Finally his pure stupidity and lack of any moral compass has risen to the top
Because Facts hurts potus realDonaldTrump's feelings. What a pansy.
This about appealing to his base. They are triggered easily by him to conform to nonsense. They are not willing to review the facts and are purely driven by emotions.
yeah he can’t obviously do that
Baby potus
Trump is out of time.
This movie does not have a happy ending!!!!
That's the first bit of real good news this year if it takes him off of social media completely.
By his definition, correcting his followers' misspelling of 'they're' is 'silencing conservative voices.' It's an asterisk to a link correcting the error, not censorship, ya big dummy.
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😂imagine having to fact check the president 🤣
Children always test their boundaries and throw tantrums when you enforce the rules...🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Where else will I get my propaganda of Twitter is gone? Oh yeah, any tv station, corporate website or college campus.
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