For the past few years, President Donald Trump's preferred means of communicating with the public has been via Twitter — something he now acknowledges probably helped him win the presidency.

During an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, the president discussed the power of social media throughout his 2016 campaign and beyond, adding his belief that he might not have won the election without Twitter. However, rather than discuss Twitter's power as a platform, Trump instead said that he viewed it as an effective way to fight back against "fake news." (As previously reported, Americans still trust this supposedly "fake news" more than they do the president.)

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"I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn’t for Twitter because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press," he claimed. "When I say things, the press doesn't cover it accurately. There's a lot of fake news."

"So if I'm not going to, if they're not going to do me the honor and the public the honor of spreading my word accurately as it was meant, and you know exactly what I'm talking about, because there's been nobody in history that got more dishonest media than I’ve gotten," he continued.



Trump also referred to his social media accounts as a way for him to produce his "own form of media." (Yikes.)

"When I can reach, whether it’s 90 million or 100 million or 80 million, however many people it may turn out to be," Trump said. "When you add everything up — and then, of course, it gets disseminated from there — when I can reach that many people, Twitter is a wonderful thing for me, because I get the word out."



"I might not be here talking to you right now as president if I didn't have an honest way of getting the word out," he concluded.

[h/t Us Weekly]



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