WASHINGTON — Just this week, President-elect Donald Trump has tackled not only Russian hacking but House ethics, Guantanamo, Obamacare, crime and the auto industry through tweets.
On Monday, he had this this message about North Korea for China:
China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U. S. in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!
That prompted a response from China\u2019s state news agency: \u201cTwitter shouldn\u2019t become an instrument of foreign policy. Foreign policy isn\u2019t child\u2019s play,\u201d it said.
But Twitter has proven to be an important tool for Trump; A modern way of talking directly to the people.
Trump says his social media power key to victory
Like Franklin Roosevelt did through radio and John F. Kennedy with television, in today\u2019s social media era, Trump\u2019s tweets can dominate a news cycle.
Lesley Stahl of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d asked him after the election if he would keep it up as president.
\u201cI\u2019m not saying I love it, but it does get the word out. When you give me a bad story or when you give me an inaccurate story or when somebody other than you and another network, or whatever, because of course, CBS would never do a thing like that right? I have a method of fighting back,\u201d he said.
As part of the transition, incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus met last month with the men who have done the job for other presidents, includi…
Two former presidential chiefs of staff, Democrat Bill Daley and Republican Andy Card, told \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d they don\u2019t expect him to walk away from the medium he\u2019s made his own.
\u201cI think the tweet world is going to be our world for a long time,\u201d Card said.
\u201cThink before you tweet or speak. Before, it was before you speak. Now it is before you tweet,\u201d Daley added.
Beyond foreign capitals, Trump\u2019s tweets also are rattling corporate boardrooms. They \u00a0have even affected the stock price of specific companies.\u00a0
As a result, some corporations are making plans for how to respond if Trump tweets about them.<\/p>\n