Social
media and political participation
Finally, many reports indicate also
that president Trump replied instantly on most of the tweets
that mentioned his name. The instant reactions brought about
a lot of comments from the public, media as well as the competitors
. There is no doubt that most of the peoples are always in love with the gossips on social media. Hillary Clinton once accused Trump during las vegas campaigns citing his rhetoric on groups like Muslims and Mexican-Americans (CNBC, 2016). She suggested that it was so dangerious at the actions would bring more dangers to the nations compared to the benefits. Trump replied by saying, ““We’ve got to be nice and cool, nice and cool. Alright, stay on point, Donald, stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald, nice and easy” (CNBC, 2016). Such attacks raised a lot of reaction on the twitter account as many people participated in the attack. It is suggested that the tweet had more than two million comments from different people across the nation. Additionally, the tweet was also broadcasted in the media companies like CNBC, NBC News, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today among others.
Many reports indicate that Trump tweets increased the participation of youths in the 2016 elections. In previous years, most of the youths have not been involved in the elections that much. However, increase in the Trump’s social media involvements during his campaigns motivated most of the youths to participate on the internet campaigns – most of the youths commented on the Trump’s tweets as well as the allegations associated to him. the current statistics indicates that youths are the most active persons on the social media (). Therefore, increase in Trump participations in the social media during 2016 general election targeted the right group. Additionally, reports from Statistics and Public Policy suggested that the more than 16% increased their subscription to the social media during the 2016 campaigns (Marija et al., 2019). There is no doubt that this was promoted by the political heat in the nations which made most of the individuals sign up for the twitter and Facebook account to follow political stories from the competing candidates. Therefore, social media campaigns by the Donald Trump in 2016 elections increased political participation in the nations which favored his side.