For a glorious 11 minutes on Thursday, Donald Trump was unable to send a Tweet.
At 6:35 p.m. EST, the possible-unstable President shared a video of him formally nominating Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Then, from about 6:50 p.m to 7:00 p.m., we didn’t just hear nothing from the controversial Commander-in-Chief…
… anyone trying to access his account was greeted by an “Error” message.
Many users thought that perhaps Twitter had finally heeded the requests of critics around the globe and kicked President Trump off the service.
These folks believe he continually violates Twitter’s terms of service by bullying various individuals and, at times, teasing a nuclear war with North Korea.
The President had most recently drawn score for his message about the Manhattan terror attack.
He wrote on Wednesday that Sayfullo Saipov – the man charged with driving his truck into a bike path in New York City and killing eight people in the process – “should get the death penalty.”
Legal experts have said this demand could make it harder for prosecutors in the case against Saipov.
So… was this the final straw for Twitter?
Did it cut Trump off as a result?
Tragically, no.
We learned later in the evening that an employee on his or her final day of work at the company took it upon his or herself to take Trump’s page down.
Read a message from Twitter itself once it arrived at this conclusion:
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee.
The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored.
We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
What can we say? That’s just amazing and hilarious.
Trump has 41 million followers.
He likes to basically live-Tweet Fox & Friends each morning, while he’s been railing against charges of collusion with Russia of late, along with calling for an investigation of Hillary Clinton by the Department of Justice.
As you might expect, Democrats and Republicans alike celebrated the work of this rogue Twitter employee.
Those on both sides of the aisle seem to agree that the President Tweets too much, especially when most of his messages involve bragging or lying (or, often, both) about something self-serving.
It would be possible to use this massive platform for good.
But not for Donald Trump.
