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Trump Was ‘Frantic’ When He Lost His Twitter Page – Forced White House Staff To Stop Work To ‘Try And Fix It’

By Paula Mooney

From the archive: published Nov 3, 2017, 9 years ago. Details may have changed since.

President Donald Trump lost his Twitter account for 11 minutes on Thursday, November 2. It was long enough for many people on Twitter to grab screenshots of Twitter proclaiming that the @RealDonaldTrump Twitter account no longer existed, as reported by the Inquisitr. Initially, Twitter reported that it was human error that brought Trump’s Twitter account to a halt. Later, Twitter followed up with the news that blamed a customer support worker for taking down Trump’s Twitter account on the person’s last day.

“Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review.”

While Twitter is conducting a full review of the incident, people on Twitter are calling that person a hero for taking down Trump’s Twitter account – at least for 11 minutes. In the meantime, Twitter users are also getting a peek into how President Trump may have reacted to the news of his Twitter account going down. According to the below tweet from the Rogue White House Senior Advisor Twitter account – a page followed by more than 137,000 people claiming to have news directly from the West Wing – Trump was “frantic” upon losing his Twitter account.

Perhaps believing that Twitter had finally put the kibosh on Trump’s means of communicating directly with millions of people each day, Trump reportedly ordered all White House staffers to immediately cease what they were working on to “try and fix” his Twitter problem. However, Trump didn’t have to panic for a long period of time. After 11 minutes, Trump’s Twitter page was restored.

Trump addressed the situation in a tweet, after his Twitter account was restored. Trump blamed the rogue employee for taking down his account and claimed that “the word must finally be getting out” – without specifying what “word” or message he meant – that is purportedly having an impact, according to Trump.

By Friday, November 3, Trump was back to his usual Twitter routine, calling the New York City attacker a “Degenerate Animal” related to ISIS. Trump railed against the notion that ISIS claimed responsibility for “their solider” taking lives. Trump claimed via Twitter that ISIS will pay for each attack on U.S. citizens.

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