{"id":33472,"date":"2017-07-01T05:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33472"},"modified":"2017-07-01T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:36:28","slug":"like-his-father-donald-trump-jr-uses-twitter-to-target-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/like-his-father-donald-trump-jr-uses-twitter-to-target-the-media.html","title":{"rendered":"Like His Father, Donald Trump Jr. Uses Twitter to Target the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like His Father, Donald Trump Jr. Uses Twitter to Target the Media<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Like His Father, Donald Trump Jr. Uses Twitter to Target the Media:- Donald Trump Jr., the president\u2019s eldest son, doesn\u2019t always take after his father. He finds little joy in wandering gilded rooms. He would rather go hunting than play a round of golf. He has little interest in becoming a politician.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has, however, inherited his father\u2019s affection for Twitter as a weapon against political foes. But even here, their styles are different.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump tends to fire a digital bazooka when met with a perceived slight, often hitting below the belt and leaving himself open to bipartisan criticism, as he did this week by insulting the hosts of the MSNBC program \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d The younger Mr. Trump uses the platform more frequently to harshly call out what he sees as a bias against the Trump White House that is shared by journalists, Democrats and celebrities \u2014 all suspects, he feels, in a plot to undermine and threaten his father\u2019s embattled presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the president\u2019s supporters privately say Mr. Trump is doing a more forceful job defending his father from outside the White House than some people inside it, and some see a widening opportunity for him to be an effective and high-profile torchbearer for their grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s social media presence can be a strange stew of family, politics and simmering anger. Like his father, the younger Mr. Trump sees social media as a way to circumvent the media that he thinks is not properly serving readers and viewers. \u201cBy so flagrantly picking sides,\u201d Mr. Trump said in an interview this week, \u201cthey\u2019re forcing people to go to other places to watch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, 39, is used to doing battle on his father\u2019s behalf. He was the one who carried out the firing of Mr. Trump\u2019s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he was still frustrated by some of his father\u2019s aides: \u201cI think he\u2019s being served well by some people.\u201d Other people, less so, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since assuming management of the Trump Organization with his brother Eric, Mr. Trump has been an infrequent presence in the White House, attending events like the Easter Egg Roll and his father\u2019s birthday. But the Trumps are still able to close ranks from afar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both father and son use Twitter as a digital flogging machine when they sense that someone has treated them unfairly. The family resemblance was on display this week after CNN \u2014 a perennial news nemesis \u2014 quickly retracted a story about a Trump campaign aide\u2019s business ties to Russia and accepted the resignations of three journalists. The network was also forced to defend the actions of a producer who criticized the network\u2019s news coverage \u2014 the producer had been speaking to someone wearing a hidden camera.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trumps pounced.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWow, CNN had to retract big story on \u201cRussia,\u201d with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!\u201d the president wrote at 6:30 in the morning on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHey mainstream media, which one of you will actually report on this @CNN story this morning? Be balanced and fair!!!\u201d his eldest son chimed in a few hours later.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some cases, conservatives have been reaching out directly to the younger Mr. Trump, asking him to jump in and fight. Political violence has been a preoccupation of Mr. Trump\u2019s. The episode in which the comedian Kathy Griffin held up what looked like the president\u2019s severed head was a particular source of outrage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter allowed me to call her out immediately for her vile, sick, disgusting actions,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cIt brought attention to a serious issue that would have been glossed over otherwise. Social media, if used properly, is a fantastic tool to redefine the conversation in our terms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, who divides his time between Manhattan and a property upstate, seems to speak the language of conservatives most naturally. He is an avid hunter whose closest friends are not considered New York elite, but are people who enjoy the outdoors and are gun enthusiasts. This makes him as much his father\u2019s ambassador to Middle America \u2014 and a broader swath of conservatives \u2014 as anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs of late I\u2019ve probably taken more of a role in it of my own volition,\u201d Mr. Trump said of confronting critics, noting he is not working in concert with the White House. \u201cI\u2019m watching from the outside.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During sensitive times, the Republican National Committee has asked Mr. Trump to step in as a pinch-hitter when his father has been advised not to tweet. When James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, testified before the Senate in early June, the younger Mr. Trump coordinated with the national committee to push back against Mr. Comey\u2019s testimony. When Mr. Comey testified that the president had mentioned closing the federal investigation into contact between Russian officials and Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, Mr. Trump took to Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHoping and telling are two very different things,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote, \u201cyou would think that a guy like Comey would know that. #givemeabreak\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lindsay Jancek, the deputy communications director for the national committee, said in an interview that there was frequent communication between the organization and Mr. Trump. The committee sends him messaging materials, including thoughts for posts, for him to consider sharing to his 1.7 million Twitter followers. That following has grown from about 700,000 since the presidential campaign began in earnest. Ms. Jancek called the work done during the Comey hearing \u201cvery successful in driving a narrative and pushing back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has said he gets the national committee talking points or sometimes his friends share tweets, but that his own posts are not made at anyone\u2019s behest. He has his own way of leaping into action: On Thursday, when his father drew swift backlash for using Twitter to crudely attack Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of the MSNBC show \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d Mr. Trump did not issue a defense but used the episode as another opportunity to attack CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n

The message is working with millennials, according to Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, an activist group for young conservatives. Mr. Kirk, who interacts frequently with Mr. Trump on Twitter, said that members across the group\u2019s 1,100 college and high school campuses were avid followers of Mr. Trump\u2019s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, which tend to showcase his hunting prowess and dedication to his wife and five children.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs we work to grow the party and attract younger voters,\u201d Mr. Kirk, 23, wrote in an email, \u201chaving strong, confident, funny, and respected voices like Donald Trump Jr. is a tremendous asset.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also frequently interacts with prominent conservatives, and acknowledged that there are some people he has retweeted or praised who have flagged conspiracy theories. In April, he suggested that Mike Cernovich, a writer known for promoting false claims that Hillary Clinton was part of a pedophile ring located in the basement of a pizzeria, deserved a Pulitzer Prize for using shaky anonymous sourcing to report on the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump said that a tweet of support for people who promote conspiracy theories was not \u201can endorsement of everything that that person has ever said or done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that one individual thought, though, is any less right or shouldn\u2019t be an issue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite raising his public profile as a pugilistic defender of the president, Mr. Trump said he had no plans to follow his father\u2019s path into politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the time being,\u201d he said, \u201cI think I\u2019m much more effective doing what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/30\/us\/politics\/like-his-father-donald-trump-jr-uses-twitter-to-target-the-media.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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