You can now read Trump's tweets repackaged as 'official' White House statements

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A new Twitter bot posting under the handle @RealPressSecBot envisions the perhaps inevitable future in which perpetually embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer retreats to the shrubbery for good and lets President Trump's iPhone have his job.

The bot's creator, Russel Neiss, programmed it to query Trump's Twitter account every 5 minutes and, when it finds a new tweet, format it to look like an official White House press release:

@RealPressSecBot is less than 24 hours old. It has nine tweets and more than 47,000 followers as of this writing.

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.