Trump Boasts About "Very Powerful" Social Media, Inflates Numbers

President Trump decided to puff himself up a bit this morning by boasting about the number of his social media followers.

"The Fake News Media hates when I use what has turned out to be my very powerful Social Media - over 100 million people! I can go around them."

The Fake News Media hates when I use what has turned out to be my very powerful Social Media - over 100 million people! I can go around them

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2017

Unless he is counting the fake accounts that troll for him, Trump is being less than truthful about his social media followers.

Adding up his followers from his two Twitter accounts (@realDonaldTrump and @potus) and two Facebook accounts, his social media totals about 75 million followers.

Twitter:
realdonaldtrump: 32.4 million
POTUS: 18.8 million

Facebook:
Donald Trump: 22.4 million
POTUS: 1.7 million

Total: about 75.3 million, not 100 million.

The citizens of Twitter Land were more than happy to weigh in:

The Circuit Courts love your Tweets. When they ban your policies, you literally help write their opinions for them. Keep up the good work!

— Rob Szczerba (@RJSzczerba) June 16, 2017

Safe to say the "fake news" loves your tweeting. It's your staff, your lawyers and your allies in Congress who would like to see it end

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) June 16, 2017

The more @realDonaldTrump tweets, the less executive privilege the White House will be able to assert, if any by now. https://t.co/h7DyPNqXTJ

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 16, 2017

No, we really do love it. I'm sure the lawyers do, too. https://t.co/6Lmv2kO3az

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 16, 2017

You have 32.3 million followers. Katy Perry has 100 million followers. You're not even 1/3 as popular as Katy Perry. For perspective.

— Rob Tannenbaum (@tannenbaumr) June 16, 2017

No, we don’t hate it — it’s your staff that hate it. Please keep tweeting & blowing yourself up. https://t.co/QZuSHBJoRS

— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) June 16, 2017

(via NCRM)