National Public Radio (NPR) tweeted the Declaration of Independence line by line for the 4 July holiday and Donald Trump's supporters were not impressed.

NPR meant the series of more than a 100 tweets as a celebration of the founding document of the country and did it to honour of a 29-year tradition of reading the Declaration on air.

Some saw the tweets as particularly relevant to the state of current affairs and praised the action as a reminder of why federal funding for the public broadcaster should not be cut, as the Trump administration has proposed.

However, the tweets drew the ire of several more people; some tweeting that NPR was inciting violence and revolution against Mr Trump.

Some were short and to the point, though misspelt:

And some were deleted after people realised their mistake, but were still documented by writer and Twitter user Parker Molloy:

More than a few people thought the tweets were justification for the broadcaster to lose funding and called the tweets "trash".