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<p>On Tuesday morning, <a href="https://www.someecards.com/topic/donald-trump/">President Donald Trump</a> yawned, stretched his Twitter fingers, and released three tweets: two about the stock market and one about the number of his social media followers.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stock Market could hit all-time high (again) 22,000 today. Was 18,000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/892366646542782464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now.&quot; Thank you Stuart Varney <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> Jobs are starting to roar,watch!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/892370324616089600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/892383242535481344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>At least the stock and jobs tweets were concerning the American economy (even though some attribute<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-trumps-highest-stock-market-ever-economic-claim-644222" target="_blank"> that growth to work done by President Obama</a>) and that&#39;s a subject with which a POTUS should concern himself.</p><p>The latter, about his number of followers, is pretty obviously a distraction. And, of course, a bit of a lie.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/simonhedlin/status/892383710892482560</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/no-donald-trump-doesnt-have-110-million-people-following-him-on-social-media/?utm_term=.7a7b678d563d" target="_blank"><em>Washington Post</em></a> calculated Trump&#39;s number of followers across social media:</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="The Washington Post" data-attribution-url="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/no-donald-trump-doesnt-have-110-million-people-following-him-on-social-media/?utm_term=.7a7b678d563d" height="438" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/followers-xbku28.jpg" width="700" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/no-donald-trump-doesnt-have-110-million-people-following-him-on-social-media/?utm_term=.7a7b678d563d">The Washington Post</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Add up that generous list&mdash;which includes accounts like the White House on Instagram, which no one has ever, ever suggested Trump stop using&mdash;and the number comes to about 93.1 million.</p><p>The <em>Post </em>also suggests that Trump could be counting the Reddit communities dedicated to him, which is a huge stretch, and still doesn&#39;t bring Trump up to 110 million.</p><p>Unless Trump has 20 million Snapchat followers (info that&#39;s not public), Trump&#39;s estimate seems to be rounding up pretty generously. Then there&#39;s the bots. Oh, the bots.</p><p>Via the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/06/no-donald-trump-doesnt-have-110-million-people-following-him-on-social-media/?utm_term=.7a7b678d563d" target="_blank"><em>Washington Post</em></a>:</p><blockquote> <p>But even if we manage to cobble together some number that gets close to 110 million, there are two very good reasons that Trump&#39;s not followed by 110 million people. First, a lot of those people follow multiple accounts across those networks and, second, some followers are robots.</p> <p>...</p> <p>That said, there are certainly thousands or millions of followers of the @realdonaldtrump account who are actually automated accounts. There are also any number of followers that are tied to businesses or tied back to the same individual.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Meanwhile, this is all a big distraction from <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story" target="_blank">a lawsuit that alleges</a> that &quot;the Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump&quot; worked with the White House to come up with a conspiracy theory about DNC aide Seth Rich. Then there&#39;s the news that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/world/europe/russia-sanctions-us-diplomats-expelled.html" target="_blank">Russia expelled U.S. diplomats</a>, the latest <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/anthony-scaramucci-fired-twitter/">meltdown over White House staff</a>, and, of course, enough <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-team-could-not-collude-itself-let-alone-putin-says-kushner-report-644776" target="_blank">collusion for everybody</a>.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Funny you are calling out the MSM as &quot;Fake&quot; when the White House was involved in crafting a legitimately fake story about Seth Rich</p>&mdash; Dani Bostick (@danibostick) <a href="https://twitter.com/danibostick/status/892384298980052992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/danibostick/status/892385307835772929</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And if the number of tweets isn&#39;t enough of a lie for you, the idea that Trump&#39;s &quot;enemies&quot; want him to stop his most self-destructive habit certainly is.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No please do continue. I love watching you make an ass of yourself online and in person.</p>&mdash; danielle (@daniellesandler) <a href="https://twitter.com/daniellesandler/status/892383483607351296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/kim/status/892383810100187136</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/danibostick/status/892384099301638146</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Not to mention, this morning&#39;s tweet is almost a word-for-word rehash of an old one from June.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872059997429022722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Is the Commander in Tweets running out of inspiration? Apparently the bots don&#39;t value originality.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Donald Trump woke up and bragged about his number of followers. No one's impressed.

On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump yawned, stretched his Twitter fingers, and released three tweets: two about the stock market and one about the number of his social media followers.Stock Market could hit all-time high (again) 22,000 today. Was 18,000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2017 &quot;Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now.&quot; Thank you Stuart Varney @foxandfriends Jobs are starting to roar,watch!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2017 Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2017 At least the stock and jobs tweets were concerning the American economy (even though some attribute that growth to work done by President Obama) and that&#39;s a subject with which a POTUS should concern himself.The latter, about his number of followers, is pretty obviously a distraction. And, of course, a bit of a lie.https://twitter.com/simonhedlin/status/892383710892482560The Washington Post calculated Trump&#39;s number of followers across social media:The Washington PostAdd up that generous list&mdash;which includes accounts like the White House on Instagram, which no one has ever, ever suggested Trump stop using&mdash;and the number comes to about 93.1 million.The Post also suggests that Trump could be counting the Reddit communities dedicated to him, which is a huge stretch, and still doesn&#39;t bring Trump up to 110 million.Unless Trump has 20 million Snapchat followers (info that&#39;s not public), Trump&#39;s estimate seems to be rounding up pretty generously. Then there&#39;s the bots. Oh, the bots.Via the Washington Post: But even if we manage to cobble together some number that gets close to 110 million, there are two very good reasons that Trump&#39;s not followed by 110 million people. First, a lot of those people follow multiple accounts across those networks and, second, some followers are robots. ... That said, there are certainly thousands or millions of followers of the @realdonaldtrump account who are actually automated accounts. There are also any number of followers that are tied to businesses or tied back to the same individual. Meanwhile, this is all a big distraction from a lawsuit that alleges that &quot;the Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump&quot; worked with the White House to come up with a conspiracy theory about DNC aide Seth Rich. Then there&#39;s the news that Russia expelled U.S. diplomats, the latest meltdown over White House staff, and, of course, enough collusion for everybody.Funny you are calling out the MSM as &quot;Fake&quot; when the White House was involved in crafting a legitimately fake story about Seth Rich&mdash; Dani Bostick (@danibostick) August 1, 2017 https://twitter.com/danibostick/status/892385307835772929And if the number of tweets isn&#39;t enough of a lie for you, the idea that Trump&#39;s &quot;enemies&quot; want him to stop his most self-destructive habit certainly is.No please do continue. I love watching you make an ass of yourself online and in person.&mdash; danielle (@daniellesandler) August 1, 2017 https://twitter.com/kim/status/892383810100187136https://twitter.com/danibostick/status/892384099301638146Not to mention, this morning&#39;s tweet is almost a word-for-word rehash of an old one from June.The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017 Is the Commander in Tweets running out of inspiration? Apparently the bots don&#39;t value originality.

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump yawned, stretched his Twitter fingers, and bragged about the number of followers he has.