Donald Trump is currently arguing with an automated Twitter bot – and he’s losing
Donald Trump, who’s still hiding from the public behind a giant fence and perhaps still in an underground bunker, has spent all day and all night using Twitter to attack General Colin Powell because he endorsed Joe Biden. But right around midnight, Trump turned his ire in a different direction when he began feuding with what is clearly an automated Twitter bot.
It started when Trump posted a tweet attacking NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for daring to strike a conciliatory racial tone with his players. At that point an automated account called “Amazon warehouse robot” – which at the time only had 64 followers – posted this complete non-sequitur of a reply: “Please, Paperbacks are so 2019.” The bot also included a link to a book called “Inside Trump’s White House.”
Someone clearly set up that bot to auto-respond to Donald Trump with gibberish messages and related book recommendations, perhaps in an attempt at getting affiliate royalties from any resulting book sales. But Trump incredibly took the bait and responded to the bot, saying “Actually, a great book by a great and highly respected historian, Doug Wead!”
That’s right, Donald Trump is now arguing with an automated Twitter bot. Considering that it’s giving attention to the bot account and thus driving followers and perhaps affiliate royalties, the bot is definitely winning. That’s before getting to the part where the so-called President of the United States just made himself look like a complete idiot for arguing with an account that everyone knows was a bot designed to taunt him.
