Twitter Censors Trump's Tweet On Mobilizing National Guard to Stop Riots For 'Glorifying Violence'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 29, 2020

Twitter censored President Trump's tweet on mobilizing the National Guard to stop the riots in Minneapolis for "glorying violence" because he said that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

A message was put up at around 3am on Friday morning blocking the tweet that states: "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible."

Users have to manually click "view" to see the tweet.

Twitter is now censoring @RealDonaldTrump's tweet on mobilizing the National Guard to stop the riots in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/A3vLZBb8M6
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) May 29, 2020

For the time being, it's able to be viewed when embedded on other pages.

....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020

Though they censored Trump's tweet on authorizing the National Guard to use violence to protect people in Minneapolis, these tweets explicitly calling for violence in support of the riots were allowed to go mega viral with no similar warning label.

Unpopular opinion: Violence IS the answer.
— 👏🏾Karenavirus 👏🏾Vaccine 💪🏾 (@QueenOfGeele) May 27, 2020

Black people have every right to burn down a country they built for free
— Solomon Georgio (@solomongeorgio) May 28, 2020

This should tell you a lot about how seriously Twitter is taking President Trump's toothless executive order against social media censorship that he signed just hours ago.

UPDATE:

“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” https://t.co/GDwAydcAOw
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 29, 2020

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