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Comment by tim333 | Hacker News Reader

I've noticed there are a lot of rude replies under most of Trumps tweets. I'd think it would be normal to block that kind of thing but I guess it's an odd situation - Twitter wasn't really designed for the president of the US.

For example - just the most recent https://twitter.com/ronrobiins/status/999283009957318656 - presidential ain't what it used to be.

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To be fair, no president was this rude. at least, not in public.

LBJ was a well known asshole. Did you actually think about your statement before you wrote it, or just assume that it would be true?

Yay personal attacks! There is a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole on tv/radio/twitter. The only way LBJ was same as Trump would be, if LBJ went on TV everyday and yelled profanity and called people names. Because that is what Trump does when he rage-tweets every morning.

LBJ was a well known asshole on every medium that was available to him.

Does Trump use a lot of profanity? I've never really noticed. What I notice is that he makes fun of his opponents a lot, but I don't really see how that is considered rude, when his opponents are doing the same thing back to him.

he can still mute people if his feelings get hurt

also this is not the first president to whom people have said rude things. If the definition of "presidential" has changed it's not because of people calling Trump a "parasite".

> rude replies under most of Trumps tweets

He tweets many rude things, so I don't think they can cite any standard of behavior.

Go look at replies to any tweet from President Obama. I think you'd be hard pressed to say that there are not many equally as rude responses.

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