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Comment by megaman22 | Hacker News Reader

Trump has multiple twitter accounts. His primary one is @realDonaldTrump, which he's been using since 2009, long before he was a government figure. This is his private citizen Twitter account, as far as I'm concerned, and he can do whatever he damn well pleases there.

If he were to block people from his @POTUS President Donald Trump account, then I might take issue with that.

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Has he ever used the POTUS account? From its recent activity it appears to be run by a PR team and only retweets things.

As far as Twitter is concerned, his "personal account" is an official government account, exempt from being banned for posting content that otherwise would violate Twitter's ToS.

The President of the United States actively chooses to use @realDonaldTrump as in the same manner as a government official would in any other public forum, as such he must comply with the rules governing them as enshrined in the Constitution, features of that forum notwithstanding. The moment he began using it in a official capacity, was the moment it stopped being personal. Imagine if he was in a physical town hall, the placard in front of him doesn't change the fact that he's a government official.

>This is his private citizen Twitter account, as far as I'm concerned, and he can do whatever he damn well pleases there.

@realDonaldTrump is his official account, as per whitehouse.gov [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20180523194453/https://www.whiteh...

No. @realDonaldTrump ceased being a personal account when he started using it for official business.

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