Honor: Trump invited Lynnette Hardaway (center) and Rochelle Richardson (right), known online as ‘Diamond and Silk,’ to the podium in the East Room and (right) White House counselor Kellyanne Conway I was picking them up 100,000 people every very short period of time,’ he said.Įast Room audience: The president’s guests at the summit included (from left) Lila Rose, of anti-abortion group Live Action YouTube vloggers Diamond and Silk Kimberly Guilfoyle and her boyfriend Donald Trump Jr. ‘It used to take me a short number of days to pick up 100,000 people.
I was picking up unbelievable amounts of people, and I’m hotter now than I was then. ‘And it was so different than it was, even six, seven months ago. I have people, they come up to me: “Sir, we want to follow you. In the course of the speech he claimed to be a victim of censorship himself. She turns up at showbusiness red carpets in pro-Trump dresses Roped in: Former bondage model turned Trump fan Joy Villa was praised for her outfits by the president. and girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle were in the front of the East Room summitĬontroversial figure: Ali Alexander, whose tweet questioning whether Kamala Harris is Afrin-American was retweeted then deleted by Don Jr. He invited bloggers Diamond and Silk up on stage to speak, hailed the work of Project Veritas director James O’Keefe who has caught Google executives on undercover camera appearing to confirm claims of anti-conservative bias – something disputed by Google – and was starting to take a question from a former adviser turned broadcaster Sebastian Gorka when the livestream was cut.įreewheeling: Trump delivered a rally-style speech to an invited audience of conservative social media figuresįirst son: Donald Trump Jr. In a free-wheeling speech akin to his performances at campaign rallies, Trump praised conservative social media figures for ‘the c**p you come up with,’ got applause for calling the mainstream media ‘fake news,’ and bemoaned his own apparent difficulties with Twitter.
White House reporters were thrown out and the live stream cut when Trump started to take questions. The summit was billed as an attempt to promote transparency and fairness. Ironically, Twitter went out worldwide on Thursday as attendees gathered for the social media summit in the White House East Room – but came back up before remarks in which he accused the tech brand of making it intentionally difficult for people to follow him. Trump complained at the event that his Twitter count isn’t rising as fast as it used to and bemoaned fake newsĭonald Trump railed against social media in a freewheeling speech at a summit of conservative figures at the White House Thursday, accusing Silicon Valley giants of suppressing right-of-center views.White House event overshadowed earlier in the week by a decision to invite, and then disinvite, a political cartoonist accused of using an anti-Semitic trope.Representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Google were not invited to attend.Reporters were prohibited from attending the event, prior to Trump’s remarks, when Diamond and Silk, Kevin McCarthy and Dan Crenshaw were talking.He accused the tech brand of making it intentionally difficult for people to follow him and suppressing his message.Twitter went out worldwide on Thursday during the president’s social media summit – but came back up right before his remarks.
Trump rails against ‘censorship’ of conservatives at social media summit – then labels Democrats ‘Communists’ and White House cuts live feed to take questions about ‘transparency’
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