![]() ![]() If Trump started to tweet more typical responses, the bot would reflect that. Trump’s tweets look haphazard, even a little absurd, when dressed up as official statements-but apply Neiss’ algorithm to any other government official, and the results would be similarly terse (if more benign). Some of that, to be fair, is the medium more than the message. "The act of seeing it mocked up in that way gave more gravitas to what it actually is." "It hit me that this is actually very accurate," says Neiss. Rather than illustrating Trump's erraticness through absurdity, does it with deadpan, taking his pronouncements as seriously as they ought to be taken. By framing Trump's tweets in the same standardized letterhead used by the White House Press Office, Neiss' bot amplifies the disparity between his words and their power. There’s no shortage of bots or parody accounts mocking POTUS's online behavior, but Neiss' feed is alone among them in highlighting the dissonance between Trump's tweets and the fact that he's, you know, president. Neiss tucked in his three kids for a nap, sat down at his desk in in St. After Cunnane tweeted the image, a friend tagged Neiss, who has created dozens of bots, asking if he could create one to automatically replicate the effect. ![]() The concept for the bot was inspired by President Obama's former deputy director of messaging, Pat Cunnane, who on Sunday posted an image of Trump's latest tweet about the London Bridge attack reformatted as an official statement from the White House. "The only buffoonery is from the content of the tweets itself." "It's just doing the obvious thing, giving the president's tweets the honorable treatment they deserve," says Russel Neiss, the software engineer who created the bot. The Twitter bot automatically reposts the text from messages in the format of a press release from the White House. Sorry America, You Have to Pay Attention to Trump’s Tweets makes them official. ![]()
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