Analysing President Trump’s first year of tweets. What can the tweets tell us about the Trump Presidency, America, and its relationship with the world?
In January it will be twelve months since Donald Trump’s Inauguration as the President of the United States of America. It’s a year of tweeting dangerously for his opponents and, potentially, for himself. In foreign affairs, the President has posted about stopping North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’ leader from acquiring nuclear missiles. At home, he’s rallied his supporters, and lashed out at his critics and at his own President legal problems with the on-going investigations into Russia’s involvement in last year’s election.
The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher reviews the first year of the President’s tweets and asks: what has been the impact of the way Donald Trump has used Twitter since he became President? Anthony Zurcher is a BBC News North America reporter and presenter of Trumped, a regular series on the BBC World Service since January 2017. In Trump: A Year of Tweets, Anthony asks experts, commentators, supporters and opponents, to consider the impact of Donald Trump’s tweets on a wide range of subjects, from ‘fake news’ to foreign leaders; from The Wall to the NFL; tax cuts to terrorism; Democrats, ‘Hillary’, and Republicans.