Washington (AFP)
Sobriquets, insults, video-montages ... Donald Trump, had made Twitter, from which he was suspended on Friday, his favorite communication channel with his @realDonaldTrump account.
Back to his most significant tweets.
- "Fake News!"
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In power for a few months, the Republican billionaire published in July 2017 a video montage showing him slaying a man, his face replaced by the logo of the CNN channel.
The post is shared hundreds of thousands of times.
Through tweets, the president will denounce throughout his mandate the "Fake News!"
which he accuses of leading a "witch hunt".
- "Bigger button" than Kim -
Second year of the Trump presidency.
Kim Jong Un warns in his 2018 New Year's speech that he has a "nuclear button" on his desk.
However, he also expresses an interest in dialogue.
Furious, Donald Trump then cracked a tweet against the one he nicknamed "Little Rocket Man" ("little rocket man"):
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just said that he + has a nuclear button on his desk at all times. + Inform him that I have a nuclear button too, but it's much bigger and more powerful than his, and it works! ".
- "Sleeping Joe" -
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has used Twitter to ridicule his opponents and develop the most mocking nicknames for them:
The future president, Joe Biden?
"Sleepy Joe" (Sleepy Joe).
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi?
"Crazy Nancy" (Nancy la Folle).
Adam Schiff, chief prosecutor for his impeachment proceedings?
"Shifty Schiff" (Schiff the Trickster)
Elizabeth Warren, the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, is given the nickname "Pocahontas", in reference to her Native American origins long claimed but in fact very diluted.
On the contrary, to speak for himself, Donald Trump calls himself an "extremely stable genius".
- The most viral -
One month before the November 2020 presidential election: the campaign between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is in full swing.
At 1:00 a.m., the tenant of the White House, in his seventies, announced that he had contracted the coronavirus.
“Tonight, the First Lady and I have tested positive for Covid-19,” tweeted the president of the world's leading power.
"We will begin our quarantine and the recovery process immediately. We will be doing it TOGETHER!"
The tweet is "liked" nearly two million times, his personal best.
Donald Trump will remain hospitalized for three days.
- The last -
Probably without knowing it, Donald Trump bowed out on Twitter on January 8 by announcing to ignore the swearing-in of his successor, Joe Biden.
"To all who have asked, I will not be attending the investiture ceremony on January 20".
This message, heavy with symbol will remain the last of its account, and its approximately 88 million subscribers at the time of its suspension.
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