Donald Trump, Secret Redditor - The Atlantic
'Riiight.) And though the Trump tweet was sent from an iPhone—another possible sign that a staffer sent it, versus tweets sent by Trump’s own Android phone—it’s conceivable Trump would delight in Reddit’s vibe. '
'Questions about what, exactly, the president of the United States is up to have officially reached fever pitch. '
'In defending the move, which has created a firestorm of criticism, Trump has been reminding people that Democrats asked for him to fire Comey. '
'The idea that the president of the United States is checking Reddit is maybe perplexing—doesn’t he have better things to do?—but not outlandish. '
'But this is not about me: It’s about Donald Trump and it’s about his tweet to O’Donnell at 3:55 p.m. “We finally agree on something Rosie,” says the tweet, published via Trump’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump. '
[–] PizzaClinton [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Trump is actively managing Reddit, Voat, & 4 Chan, he used them to win the election, and he's still using them.
Questions like: Is Donald Trump reading Reddit?
As Brandon Wall, a reporter for BuzzFeed pointed out, Trump’s tweet to O’Donnell came shortly after O’Donnell’s December tweet was published to the Reddit forum r/ The_Donald. A screenshot from Reddit’s The_Donald forum, where the Rosie O’Donnell tweet was posted shortly before Donald Trump retweeted it.
The idea that the president of the United States is checking Reddit is maybe perplexing—doesn’t he have better things to do?—but not outlandish. After all, Trump won the meme wars before he won the presidency, as Ben Schreckinger wrote for Politico:
By the fall, a team in the war room at Trump Tower was monitoring social media trends, including The_Donald subreddit—a message board that acted as a conduit between 4Chan and the mainstream Web...” Schreckinger wrote “and privately communicating with the most active users to seed new trends, according to two former Trump campaign officials. The team would bump up anything particularly catchy to social media director Dan Scavino.