Mr. Trump has always been hooked on recognition. Scroll through the list of accounts Mr. Trump follows and you’ll find a tightly curated crew of Trump relatives (like Ivanka), Trump-branded properties (Trump Waikiki), Trump-adjacent celebrities (Roma Downey, wife to “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett) and reliably Trump-friendly outlets (“Fox & Friends,” naturally). Part of the peculiarity of Mr. Trump’s tweets is that he tweets like a celebrity, not a politician or a businessman. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAll of this works because one group is as intoxicated by Twitter as Mr. Trump is: journalists. Mr. Trump may not follow a deliberate distraction strategy, but he doesn’t need one.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2017 20:28 UTC