On November 11th, President-elect Trump tweeted: "Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!"
I hope Trump can be persuaded to close his Twitter account. His tweets demonstrate visceral reactions that are not well-thought-out and will undermine his goals.
He has said that he wants to be the President of everyone. These protests gave him an opportunity to demonstrate his intent. His second tweet would have been OK if it had been his only tweet. It would have been even better had he left out the words "small groups of".
These protesters and passionate and in some cases idealistic. They have reason to be very concerned. They have been almost entirely peaceful. Unfortunately, many have chosen wrong messages. (Let's see... who might be their model in that regard??) It would be much better to stay focused on issues (such as "Don't Deport My Relatives") than to say "He's Not My President", profanities or other such messages.
Hopefully we can encourage protests to be short, peaceful and on-topic. And hopefully we can all be sensitive to their concerns.
If President Trump does not abandon tweeting, I'm afraid he'll alienate a lot of people.
As I recall from the 60's, the protesters will grow up to be politicians. And they are upset because we don't like politicians.
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