Donald Trump ‘often regrets’ his tweets and retweets

US President Donald Trump has admitted, he “often” regrets his tweets and retweets. “Too often,” he added, in an interview that was released on Friday.

In a conversation with Barstool Sports’ founder Dave Portnoy, Trump said, “It used to be in the old days before this, you’d write a letter and you’d say, ‘this letter is really bad,’ you put it on your desk and you go back tomorrow and you say, ‘Oh, I’m glad I didn’t send it.'”

“But we don’t do that with Twitter”, Trump added. On Twitter “we put it out instantaneously, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls, ‘Did you really say this?’ I say, ‘What’s wrong with that?’ And you find a lot of things”.

According to Trump, it’s not the tweets, but the retweets which get him in trouble, adding that he often doesn’t look at tweets closely before retweeting. 

He also said that he uses the micro-blogging platform extensively as it helps in countering the “fake news”, a term he uses to describe the critical coverage of his administration.

He has come under fire for a number of his tweets and retweets. Recently, he retweeted a video of a Trump supporter, yelling “white power” in response to Black Lives Matter protesters. He later deleted the tweet. 

In May, he tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,”
in response to the protests sparked by the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The phrase was used by the Miami police during the Civil Rights era. Trump, later said, he was unaware of the racist undertone the phrase carried.

Twitter has often flagged his tweets for violating the company’s policies.