Trump's Tweets (Even The Deleted Ones) Are Being Saved

President Trump is now under Twitter surveillance.

The National Archives and Records Administration has asked the White House to keep each of Trump's tweets, including those that are deleted or corrected. The White House has agreed to do just that. 

Trump's daily use of his official White House and separate, private Twitter accounts have been heavily scrutinized by the media and political friends and foes since his November election.

Three minutes before he took the oath of office in January, Trump tweeted from his private account that he was "honered to serve you, the great American people, as your 45th President of the United States." The misspelled word in the tweet was later altered to "honored" and then the tweet was deleted entirely.

However, unlike the archives' clear guidance on saving the president's tweets, the agency has not provided any guidance about preserving communications to and from Trump's smartphones.

This comes after two senators raised concerns with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis about whether communications from Trump's old smartphone were being preserved. 

Trump reportedly replaced his old unsecured Android smartphone with a secured iPhone but continued using the unsecured phone for tweeting through late March.

The senators had also questioned the Trump Administration's use of private email accounts. Newsweek had reported in January that senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, chief strategist Steve Bannon, counselor Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer all were using private email accounts on a Republican National Committee system.

Trump repeatedly criticized Democratic president opponent Hillary Clinton for her extensive use of private emails when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.

In honor of the news that social media posts by the president are now being archived, let's archive some of his biggest head-smacking Twitter comments: 


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