On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
President Obama has just pushed his first tweet. This is how it happened. The president and his wife were visiting the American Red Cross to promote aid to Haiti. He pushed the button on a tweet. Making him the first commander-in-chief to tweet. History was made at the push of a button. Located at @RedCross
CNN has this to say
Aides to former President George W. Bush told CNN that he never published a tweet, and they were happy to crown Obama as the first tweeting President - with a catch.
These are the tweets found on the Red Cross twitter feed
President Obama and the First Lady are here visiting our disaster operation center right now.
President Obama pushed the button on the last tweet. It was his first ever tweet!
There was more good news on the website as well: "Donation Update: Over $21 Million in $10 donations raised for the people of #Haiti through the @RedCross text HAITI to 90999"reads another tweet. Americans have really responded and have given aid.
There was more good news announced on their twitter feed with this post
Donation Update: Over $21 Million in $10 donations raised for the people of #Haiti through the @RedCross text HAITI to 90999 campaign.
President Barack Obama, center, greets employees at the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP)
CNN has this to say
Aides to former President George W. Bush told CNN that he never published a tweet, and they were happy to crown Obama as the first tweeting President - with a catch.
These are the tweets found on the Red Cross twitter feed
President Obama and the First Lady are here visiting our disaster operation center right now.
President Obama pushed the button on the last tweet. It was his first ever tweet!
There was more good news on the website as well: "Donation Update: Over $21 Million in $10 donations raised for the people of #Haiti through the @RedCross text HAITI to 90999"reads another tweet. Americans have really responded and have given aid.
There was more good news announced on their twitter feed with this post
Donation Update: Over $21 Million in $10 donations raised for the people of #Haiti through the @RedCross text HAITI to 90999 campaign.
President Barack Obama, center, greets employees at the Red Cross Disaster Operation Center in Washington, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP)
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