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#AskTrump

#AskTrump

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Overview

#AskTrump was a live hashtag-based Q&A event hosted on Twitter by American businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on September 21st, 2015.

Background

On the morning of September 21st, 2015, Donald Trump announced that he would be participating in a live Q&A session on camera from Twitter's New York City office. In the following hours, thousands of people tweeted their questions to the front-runner of the Republican presidential primaries using the hashtag #AskTrump.


Donald J. Trump? realDonaldTrump #AskTrump Send me your questions to answer live from TwitterNYC later this afternoon. RETWEETSFAVORITES 8:03 AM -21 Sep 2015

Developments

That afternoon, Trump answered a dozen of pre-selected questions via a series of short video responses, most of which were tamed and predictable in nature, including his thoughts on gun control, poverty and student debt crisis.



However, measuring up to his widely established reputation as the most controversial Republican presidential candidate, most Twitter users jumped on the hashtag as an opportunity to take a jab at Trump's most highly publicized statements and policy promises, from his rocky relations with the Mexicans and Islamophobic attitudes to his Slovenia-born wife Melania Trump, and of course, the iconic hair-do. According to Topsy Analytics, the hashtag was used more than 110,000 times on the day of the Q&A event.

Various Examples


Tyler Hansen ethansen #AskTrump If you had 1 shot, or 1 opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted. In one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip? RETWEETSFAVORITES 11:34 AM-21 Sep 2015 @ruinedbyreality Is it true that if you say Donald Trump 3 times in the bathroom mirror, the hair in the drain will rise up to shout racial slurs? #AskTrump RETWEETSFAVORITES 3,179 3,412 10:00 AM-21 Sep 2015 Eric Vale I'm having difficulty deciding who I should hate. Do | choose based on skin color, religion, gender, income, or a combo? #AskTrump RETWEETSFAVORITES 4:24 PM-21 Sep 2015

Jim Gabriel #AskTrump if you dig under your hair, down thru the scalp, underneath the skull, is there just a bunch of orange chicken from Panda Expres RETWEETSFAVORITES 10:57 AM-21 Sep 2015 Desus Nice Φ @desusnice @realDonaldTrump is there anything Meek Mill could do to come back & what advice do you have for him? #AskTrump RETWEETSFAVORITES 1,160 1,033 11:39 AM-21 Sep 2015 Taylor Crabtree @teaashlyn #AskTrump how do you feel about the fact that you're more of a meme than a presidential candidate 1,184 1,686 eia De 1:24 PM -21 Sep 2015 RETWEETS FAVORITES

dean winchester @philsadelphia what product do you use in your hair to make it look so much like corn #AskTrump RETWEETSFAVORITES ■ONE, IAR 2:56 PM -21 Sep 2015 First We Feast ESY Ofirstwefeast @realDonaldTrump is this you? Y/N #AskTrump RETWEETSFAVORITES 297 433 11:23 AM-21 Sep 2015 joe heenan @joeheenan #AskTrump Do you think this potato looks like you? RETWEETS FAVORITES 10:33 AM -21 Sep 2015


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External References

[1] Twitter – Donald Trump's Tweet

[2] Twitter – Hashtag Results for #AskTrump

[3] Twitter – Donald Trump's Tweet

[4] TIME – Donald Trump Invites Twitter to Ask #Trump

[5] Daily Mail – 'When you "deport all immigrants" where will your Slovenian wife be going?' The Donald's Twitter Q&A backfires as he gets hit with a barrage of insults and ridiculous questions

[6] Salon – Is the #AskTrump Twitter interview the worst idea of the 2016 campaign season?

[7] The Huffington Post – Trump Posts #AskTrump Twitter Callout And It Totally Backfires

[8] The Washington Post – #AskTrump: Donald Trump hosts Twitter chat

[9] USA Today – This is how #AskTrump backfired on The Donald

[10] The Daily Dot – The 11 best (and worst) questions from #AskTrump

[11] Wired – Yeup, #AskTrump Backfired

[12] Storify – Some of the most entertaining questions from #asktrump

[13] Topsy – Tweets per day for #asktrump

[14] Twitter – Patrick's Tweet

[15] Twitter – Joe Heenan's Tweet

[16] Uproxx – The Most Hilarious Responses To Donald Trump’s #AskTrump Twitter Q&A

[17] Thought Catalog – 28 Tweets That Prove AskTrump Was the Hilarious Miracle We All Needed Today

[18] Mediaite – Donald Trump Wants You to #AskTrump Questions on Twitter -- Probably a Bad Idea

[19] Telegraph – Donald Trump's Twitter Q&A backfires

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