Trump's Tweets Distract the World From Real Issues

       In the early hours of the morning, rather than waking up to symbolic bells of liberty, America is greeted with a reminder of the ignorance and hate that dwells in its society in the form of a Twitter notification; with lies and irrelevant Twitter beef with other celebrities, Trump avoids his presidential duties.

       Over the course of his presidency and before he was elected, Donald Trump has been notorious for his untruthful and often insensitive tweets regarding almost any subject aside from issues of extreme relevance, national or international.  Rather than addressing the desperate need for help in Puerto Rico, a part of the United States of America he so diligently promised to "make great again," he focused his efforts on attacking sports stars, including Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry.  

       Is social media responsible for such aversions of obligation, acting as a way for the President to

evade what needs to be done?  Or is it simply a means of communication, allowing him to reach out to his people, letting them interpret his tweets and decide whether they are problematic or the truth?  Such questions are left unanswered in the face of Trump's endless stream of tweets, leaving little time for inflection and clarification.  Often, Trump's tweets come across as ignorant, irrelevant, and petty, acting as distractions from national crises affecting millions every day.  For example, on November 11, he tweeted, "Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,' when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?' Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!"  This tweet could easily have been the words of a middle schooler involved in some petty drama, when in reality it is the words of the President of the United States.  Meanwhile, three separate incidences of gun violence occurred in America alone on November 11, with a total of three victims and thirteen injured.  Trump's tweets seem to be like shiny objects to the people of America, holding them like a thin mask in a poor attempt to conceal the true horrors seen in our country every day.  If he continues to tweet such interesting yet appallingly trivial messages and people choose to pay attention to them as a result of their ability to entertain, the real issues concerning America and the rest of the world go ignored and unresolved.  While social media is not responsible for the content of Trump's tweets, it provides him with an outlet to project his uncensored ideas to the public and avoid his presidential duties like a teenager avoiding his homework.  Puerto Rico is drowning in both water and $70 billion of debt, and Trump tweets of "Fake News."  Hundreds of people were killed in the infamous Las Vegas shooting, and he tweets of "disrespectful" NFL players.  Twitter perpetuates the idea that the pen is mightier than sword; Trump's tweets are destroying the fair, honest values that are believed to make up American society, one distraction at a time.