Green light
I’m seeing people say never mind what he tweets, focus on what he does – but what he says is what he does, and it’s far from mere fluff or distraction. His open shameless angry racism gives the green light to millions of other angry shameless racists, and they do things, from Charlottesville-type riots to not hiring or promoting or renting to people of Other Races to harassment and violence. The proud noisy ragey racism of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES encourages and incites racists everywhere. This shit matters.
And if there are any that wish to dismiss his tweets as ‘mere tweets,’ there is also the fact that his administration has stated that twitter is an official channel for Trump, i.e. that a tweet from him is an official communique of his administration.