Donald Trump likes to tweet.
Okay, he really likes to Tweet.
He's also the president.
"I'm President! Can you believe it?!" - President Donald Trump
A new Twitter bot, @RealPressSecBot, fuses these two passions by publishing Trump's tweets in the official White House statement format:
A statement by the President:
Take a look at the bot in action. Here's a @realDonaldTrump tweet about the London attacks:
Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
And here it is in White House release format:
A statement by the President:
That's some contrast, right?
Start following @RealPressSecBot, who treats President Trump's tweets as we all should: Official statements from the White House.
And calling them "tweets" minimizes them. They're statements from the president made on Twitter. https://t.co/oZcwrx1cQ6
Russel Neiss, the coder who built the bot, told BuzzFeed News it only took him 40 minutes to create it. Here's the tweet that inspired him:
For context - because he's President - all of Trump's Tweets should be mocked up in the correct Presidential statem… https://t.co/p1T7fqjAfz