Melissa Blake is a freelance writer and blogger from Illinois. She covers disability rights and women's issues and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping and Glamour, among others. Read her blog, So About What I Said, and follow her on Twitter. The views expressed in this commentary are solely hers. View more opinion on CNN.

(CNN) In the nearly three years that Donald Trump has been in the White House, his outbursts have become all too predictable. Nowhere is this more evident than on Twitter, the space where he appears to feel most comfortable being outrageous and hateful. After tweeting racist attacks Saturday characterizing the city of Baltimore and the district of Rep. Elijah Cummings as "infested" with rats and crime, Trump the following Friday seemed to make fun of Cummings' house reportedly being burglarized.

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Some say that Trump should be banned from Twitter, and I wholeheartedly agree. But, sadly, that is unlikely, especially since Twitter views Trump differently than its millions of "regular" users."Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate," Twitter stated in a blog post last year.

But here's the thing: We don't have to read him. We don't have to endlessly scroll to see the latest disgusting and dangerous rhetoric he's spewing on any given day.

Imagine if we all unfollowed Trump on Twitter. What would happen? That's the call to action coming from Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy. His July 28 tweet reads as a very powerful "a-Ha!" moment.

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Indeed, Murphy's suggestion is something I wish I'd thought of sooner. Although I never technically followed Trump, I don't remember the last time I went more than one day without checking his feed.

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