A Trump tweet complimenting his own tweets is on display at the White House social media summit


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Irony is dead, and the culprit is the White House's social media summit.
Trump on Thursday brought a slew of right-wing internet personalities, QAnon believers, and disinformation spreaders at the White House for his summit, notably not inviting the biggest companies in the social media sphere. And scattered around what one attendee described to CNN as "a bunch of people in a room talking about social media," there were, yes, Trump's tweets printed on giant posterboard.
Trump seems to have borrowed the same printer as congressmembers who break out floor charts in their respective chambers, using it to produce a downright meta display. One Trump tweet from 2012 notably read "Thanks- many are saying I'm the best 140 character writer in the world. It's easy when it's fun."
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Also around the room were definitions of some of the internet right's favorite terms, including "doxing" and "shadow banning." And just like the information you find on social media, those definitions weren't exactly accurate. Kathryn Krawczyk
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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