Online Presence
Donald Trump is all over the place. On top
of becoming the new President of the United States, he won this election
in one of the most polarizing ways we have ever experienced. Donald
Trump went from being a real estate tycoon in New York and TV star in LA
to becoming the face of our nation. He won the election. He might have
lost the popular vote, but he won the election. To get 304 votes from
the Electoral College you have to be well-known. You not only have to be well known,
you need lots and lots of money and you need to make yourself a
household name. Donald has a fully operational website, he also is on
every single social media platform I can find on the internet other than
a Tumblr and that place is OVER RUN with Trump content. He uses all the big ones we all instantly think of, Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter and YouTube.
He’s is probably the most viral on Facebook and
Twitter, you can see one of his more talked about tweets above. He has countless ads on YouTube with some varying from 100,000
views to some Ads by his campaign with over 1+ million views. Strangely
enough, his page on YouTube “The Trump Organization” only has about
85,000 subscribers. I think Donald did a good job at making his online presence what it needed to be for him to win the election. I do not think Trump’s current online presence is very good for the country as a whole or for morale
but it sure as hell got him into the White House. I think he should
have made his whole platform and online rhetoric much more sensitive to
people of other nationalities, races and creeds. The posts Trump would
make on Twitter that would target any person or company were the most
viewed or controversial. I will post a few of the more popular ones here
on this blog.
He has historically low approval ratings right now
and I am not shocked in the slightest because the way he conducted his
social media campaign. He was THE protest vote. People who usually voted
third-party either were loyal to Clinton from the get go; or got their
views swayed away to voting for Trump because he “wasn’t a politician”
as all of America would like to use as an excuse. His Twitter does have
26.4 million followers which is impressive, yet his predecessor Barack
Obama has 85.7 million. Instagram is probably Donald’s weakest form of social media sitting at a whopping 6.2 million followers, yet it seems Mr.Trump likes to instagram photos of his old tweets! Somewhat odd in my opinion but
hey, with Donald Trump’s presidency being so new and Obama’s approval
rating being so low at points, I don’t think real Trump supporters need
to worry much. Although the majority of the country doesn’t want Donald
in office, the way he conducted himself through out his campaign was
enough or people to accept him for who he is. The man either knows how
to use internet magic and won’t admit it to us, or he has enough money
to buy internet magic. Regardless, I doubt we’ll know anytime soon. I know I didn't talk about snapchat or his use of it but I couldn't get myself to bring it up without going off on a tangent about the NSA so pardon me for omitting it.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/donald-trump-controversial-tweets/
https://www.youtube.com/user/trump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/BarackObama
First this is a very well written blog. You did a great job with the content it is clear and precise. I loved your beginning sentence. I thought the way he polarized us was unique to any presidential candidate. I agree with your point that Trump’s activity online is not helping America’s agenda in any way, it has even caused diplomacy problems. I think the general public needs to look its self in the mirror and ask why did we vote for a man like this? I don’t think his low approval ratings are due to his online activity, but due to the fact he has not fulfilled any promises he made via social media.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that Trump's use of social media was an advantage to him during the election. It did get him in some hot water from time to time, but in his case it seemed like no publicity was bad publicity. He really in my opinion changed how future campaigns will be run, the way people are campaigning and trying to get the younger votes are changing and Donald Trump was at the forefront.
ReplyDeleteI like the term "viral" you used. As if he were just a fad with his tweets and posts. I never thought to think of Trump on instagram but i guess thats only because i never heard of it i guess or his posts werent as controversial as his tweets.
ReplyDeleteGreat point about how Trump's social media one of the causes of his historically low approval ratings. During the election process social media kept him in the spotlight, but now he already has the spotlight. All of his whiny posts at this point are just making people question him as a leader.
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