Donald Trump is a prolific Twitter user (Tweeter? Twitterer?), with his 140-character musings having landed him in hot water on various occasions since the start of his presidential campaign. But despite the headaches Trump’s tiny tweeting fingers have caused his representatives, he’s still being as carefree as ever with expressing his opinions, even though he’s only a month away from becoming the most powerful person in the modern world.
Trump’s bláse attitude towards the newfound importance his tweets carry has inspired a myriad of think pieces, with many suggesting that his seemingly off-the-cuff ramblings are actually a way to distract the general public from his more concerning behavior as president-elect, or that it’s simply evidence of his sizable ego. But while Trump’s Twitter habits may inspire confusion and anger in equal measure, one user has devised a way to see the site from the president-elect’s perspective, creating a list that only features the accounts he follows on the social media site.
The list, compiled by writer Robert Mackey, only features tweets from the 400 accounts that Trump follows. After creating the list Mackey said that he felt “dumber already.”
As you’d imagine, the small selection of accounts that Trump follows largely consists of his extensive family (Ivanka Trump was the first account he followed — sorry, other Trump kids!), conservative news outlets such as FOX and The Drudge Report and, er, Piers Morgan. As you’d imagine from Morgan’s nigh-on obsessive level of tweeting, he appears on The Donald’s feed more often that not, painting a pretty bleak picture of what Trump sees when he logs onto the site.
Trump is known for regularly expressing his frustration with pretty much anything and everything using his Twitter account, but scrolling through this re-creation of his timeline partially explains why the president-elect is so frequently pissed off. If you were forced to read Piers Morgan’s opinions multiple times daily, wouldn’t you be a little cantankerous, too?
