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Commander-In-Tweet Trump Poses A Dangerous Risk To National Security [Opinion]

By Tito Ojo-Medubi
Published on: 23:04 PST, Dec 17, 2016

As Donald Trump prepares to take the highest office in the land, there are fears that his unpredictable tweets could consist of an unprecedented national security crisis.

According to Politico, intelligence experts believe that the 70-year-old’s use of Twitter is already being scrutinized by foreign powers to decipher his personality, follow his habits and unearth clues of what to expect from the Trump administration once it takes off in January 2017.

P.W. Singer author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar” and a defense expert said it was worrisome for the most powerful leader of the free world to be an open book.

“We’ve never had a president that’s shared so much of themselves, not just what they’re saying, but their psychological tics in such an overt manner, and you can be sure that foreign actors are studying that too. We’re beginning to see what excites him, what angers him, what sets him off. We’ve never had this ability to read so much on what a president is thinking.”

There is also the vulnerability that the 45th president of the United States’ phone and digital accounts could be compromised. The Manhattan billionaire is highly attached to his Twitter account and accesses it always through his Android mobile phone. During his first interview as president-elect on 60 Minutes, he had revealed that he would be “very restrained” while in office. He attacked the New York Times on the same day.

In August, 50 of the nation’s senior Republican national security officials signed a letter warning that Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history.” According to USA Today, they said the Manhattan billionaire was lacking the values, character and experience to make a good president. They added that he would put the well-being and national security of America at grave risk as well.

“He has demonstrated that he has little understanding of the nation’s vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances and the democratic values on which American policy should be based…Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself.”

Trump’s Twitter followers currently stand at more than 17 million, a number that will astronomically shoot up once he takes office. His animosity for mainstream media and penchant for reaching out to the public directly through the 140-character platform will only continue to reflect his intent and present his opponents with the Trump card of how to understand or deal with him.

For the most part, the president-elect has used his Twitter account to comment on issues and people as well as defend himself from criticisms. His tweets have been directed at Alec Baldwin’s impersonations of him on Saturday Night Live, a scathing review of his restaurant in Vanity Fair, protesters who challenged his election victory and a misleading tweet about the 747 Air Force One program.

Internationally, Trump broke U.S. protocol to speak with the president of Taiwan over the phone. Amid Chinese anger he tweeted, “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency, heavily tax our products going into their country or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!”

When an underwater drone was seized by China and later promised to be released, the “blue-collar billionaire” had tweeted that the U.S. refuse to take the drone back. The president-elect in a Twitter typo had called the seizure, “unpresidented” instead of “unprecedented.”

In the same week, he had said that claims about him still serving as executive producer on Celebrity Apprentice, were “rediculous.” Earlier this year, he also tweeted that Ted Cruz would “loose” to Hillary Clinton and attack ads against him, were “payed” for by wealthy donors to the Democratic Party.

It is an embarrassment to the exalted office of the White House for a president to be struggling with Twitter typos. It goes ahead to highlight the fact why Donald Trump is infatuated with tweeting himself, instead of allowing staffers do it for him.

The outgoing president, Barack Obama, has always been measured when it comes to using any social media platform. His own official Twitter account, @POTUS was only launched in 2015. The account is not run by him, but by the Organizing for Action group.

https://twitter.com/SinfulCleopatra/status/800029735862566912

https://twitter.com/des_ireeee/status/757782739466674176

https://twitter.com/ThatColoredKid/status/717725696139730944

Twitter provides a raw illumination of the type of person Mr. Trump is. Despite the 140-character communication, it is not difficult to see that the Republican president-in-waiting is thin skinned, has a short attention span and has a penchant for staccato-type conversations.

Foreign analysts can use tools to uncover patterns in his tweets and over time come to predict his intentions. We can be rest assured that they have arrived at a slew of conclusions after dissecting Trump’s over 34,000 tweets.

[Featured Image by Matt Rourke/AP Images]

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