Twitter appears to have manually removed Donald Trump's Twitter account from searches for offensive terms such as "racist" and "bigot", having previously featured the US President as the top result.

Several news outlets reported overnight that searching Twitter for certain insulting phrases would see President Trump's famous account - a favourite outlet of the new US leader - appear as the top search result.

Other phrases that surfaced the leader of the free world included "a**hole", "tiny hands" and "#snowflakeinchief"