Opinion: Donald Trump’s ugly breakup

This month marks 11 years since Donald Trump published his first tweet, touting his appearance to present the Top 10 list on that night’s David Letterman show. As P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking wrote in 2018 in TIME, it took Trump a couple of years to realize how he could leverage the evolving Twitter platform to reach and stir millions with his inflammatory takedowns of celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell and eventually political figures like President Barack Obama.

This month marks 11 years since Donald Trump published his first tweet, touting his appearance to present the Top 10 list on that night’s David Letterman show. As P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking wrote in 2018 in TIME, it took Trump a couple of years to realize how he could leverage the evolving Twitter platform to reach and stir millions with his inflammatory takedowns of celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell and eventually political figures like President Barack Obama.