Jimmy Kimmel recaps Trump’s summit with Twitter ‘trolls’ and ‘wingnuts’

Jimmy Kimmel covered President Donald Trump’s social media summit at the White House that featured some of his biggest Twitter supporters.

Nobody could have accurately predicted how big Twitter would become when it started in 2006. And certainly nobody could have known how big Twitter would be the administration of a U.S. president. But then again, nobody really saw “President” Donald Trump coming.

Trump’s love of Twitter has been well documented. His tweets used to result in breaking news but as the public as become numb to his outbursts, they have instead become material for late night shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Daily Show,  and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

So when President Trump announced a “social media summit,” fans knew that Jimmy Kimmel would be all over it. Kimmel didn’t hold back in describing the attendees who were almost all fringe conservatives known for pushing conspiracies and President Trump’s policies on Twitter.

Even in a room full of “trolls” and “wingnuts” President Trump managed to separate himself from the pack. Kimmel starts off with a clip of Trump rattling off random numbers while trying to ask why the number of “likes” on his tweets varies so much. It is a bizarre topic for anyone to worry about, let alone the president of the United States.

Kimmel then points out the flaw in Trump’s plan to hit back against Twitter’s conspiracy against him by…tweeting 20 times in a day. It is clear that Trump’s definition of “bias” or “fake news” is anything negative about him while “free speech” is anything that praises him. He can find plenty of both on Twitter.

Kimmel then covers the related topic of election interference. He already mentioned that Trump’s hatred for Facebook and Google seems weird considering those platforms were used to spread pro-Trump news that influenced how some voters approached the 2016 election. Kimmel doesn’t sound to optimistic that Trump and the Republicans have a plan, or want a plan, for preventing it in 2020.

It is very unlikely that President Donald Trump’s “social media summit” will change anything about Twitter or social media. For Jimmy Kimmel, it was just another chance for the Trump to surround himself with supporters, encourage them to keep tweeting, and watch the likes go up and down and up and down.