The United States President-elect, Donald Trump has vowed to continue using the popular social media, Twitter to ‘fight’ the conventional media.
Given his history of tweets labeled offensive, newsworthy or simply shocking, one question that arose after he won the election on Tuesday was whether he would keep tweeting from the White House.
Defending the value of Twitter as a venue to get his message out directly, Trump said the answer is yes.
“It’s a great form of communication,” he told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview to air Sunday.
“I’m not saying I love it, but it does get the word out.”
Trump’s sometimes-erratic tweets — messages were sent in the middle of the night or to wage an ill-advised fight — contributed to Hillary Clinton’s accusations that he was too unstable to serve as president.
Trump, whose relationship with the media can be described as rocky at best, said he also views Twitter as a way to counter tough news reports about him.
“I have a method of fighting back,” he said.
It was an ominous warning from a president-elect who vowed to sue several news organizations that ran unflattering stories about him during his campaign and to reexamine libel laws should he win the presidency, though no federal libel law exists.
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