New York Daily News Editorial Board Highlights Trump's War Against Twitter in Seven Tweets

The New York Daily News editorial board published a tweet-styled op-ed Wednesday that consisted of seven tweets on the subject of President Donald Trump's feud with Twitter.

"‪Furious that the private company that controls his prized social media platform grew a spine and called a lie a lie, President Trump flails about like a caught fish, threatening to shut the place down. We would like to see him try," the board wrote in a series of seven paragraphs made up of 280 characters each, the maximum limit allowed in a single Twitter post.

"Twitter has a right, in fact a responsibility, to combat the worst misinformation," the op-ed continued. "Trump spouted falsehoods about mail-in ballots. The company didn't censor him; it simply added facts, correcting the record: the least it could do."

On Tuesday, Trump tweeted his displeasure with the social media platform after Twitter decided to include a fact-check advisory link on the president's tweets that claimed mail-in ballots will be "substantially fraudulent" if widely implemented for the November elections. The president accused Twitter of preventing free speech.

"Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post. Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!" Trump wrote.

On Wednesday, Trump made further comments on Twitter in which he threatened social media platforms if they do not change their behavior.

"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices," he wrote. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016.

"We can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen again," the president continued. "Just like we can't let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!"

Shortly after Trump sent out this remarks, his son Eric retweeted recently resurfaced tweets by Twitter's head of site integrity, Yoel Roth. In the tweets, Roth said there are "actual Nazis in the White House" and likened Kellyanne Conway, a political consultant to the president, to Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister.

The New York City newspaper's editorial board concluded the op-ed by saying the president "should have faced sterner discipline long ago" for his mail-in ballots tweets, but it did not advocate removing him from the platform.

"‪Now Trump foes are goading Twitter to cancel the president's account. That would be a huge mistake, adding fuel to complaints of bias and supercharging the very voice they rightly aim to asterisk" the op-ed stated.

‪"As for Trump's threats against the company, he's blustered like this before, only to wilt when brighter bulbs tell him the limits of his power. We would welcome a showdown in court. It would clarify that a tyrant cannot bend private actors to his will," the op-ed said.

Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment but did not hear back before publication.