Trump Goes on Wild Tweetstorm Promoting Infowars Video, a QAnon Account, and More

After tweeting Friday night about “the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms,” President Donald Trump followed up with a tweetstorm this morning that culminated in another swipe at the “FAKE NEWS.”

Trump began with a lot of RTing, including of InfoWars’ Paul Joseph Watson, one of the people banned by Facebook this week, an InfoWars video, and a Qanon Twitter account:

And POTUS’ wild tweetstorm did not go unnoticed:

In a series of RTs, President Trump amplified the audience of far right personalities like Paul Joseph Watson who has helped promote conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Lauren Southern who claims that immigrants and Islam “screwed” her generation. Watson was banned by Facebook.

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 4, 2019

The president of the United States is spending his morning retweeting InfoWars personality Paul Joseph Watson — someone who has built a career pushing conspiracy theories about things like Seth Rich, 9/11, chemtrails, etc.

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 4, 2019

The president this morning retweeted:
– An overt Qanon account tweeting a conspiracy between Islam and “the elites”

– A white nationalist who once shot road flares out of a boat toward immigrants trying to enter Europe

– An InfoWars video; two tweets from an InfoWars reporter

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 4, 2019

(If this is the first you’re hearing of that bizarre story about boats and flares, you can read up here.)

This morning, the president of the United States retweeted Laura Southern and Paul Joseph Watson, two unhinged alt-right bigots who traffic in anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

As I’ve said before, you don’t even need the Mueller report to impeach this president.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 4, 2019

Trump out here this morning retweeting Islamophobic propaganda from QAnon accounts pic.twitter.com/4kNysJAdUL

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 4, 2019

POTUS followed up by asking when the media will apologize to him, as well as asking why outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post are allowed on social media sites when “much of what they do is FAKE NEWS”:

When will the Radical Left Wing Media apologize to me for knowingly getting the Russia Collusion Delusion story so wrong? The real story is about to happen! Why is @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @CNN, @MSNBC allowed to be on Twitter & Facebook. Much of what they do is FAKE NEWS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 4, 2019

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