Bill O’Reilly to Donald Trump: “You Shouldn’t Tweet, Ever”

Trump appeared Monday night on The O’Reilly Factor, where Bill O’Reilly challenged him for tweeting out fraudulent statistics that alleged white people were getting murdered in large numbers by African-Americans. But taking the “statistics” at face value and proliferating them dangerously betrays all too well Trump’s demagogic desire to confirm his own racist beliefs and those of his would-be electorate.

O’Reilly couches his questions in conservative rhetoric: “The liberal media and the Democratic Party in general are trying to paint you as a racist”.

As is clear from the tweet Trump sent, the person whom he retweeted was @SeanSean252. Please don’t follow me as I will not Follow you back ever!

The retweet came two days after a half-dozen white attendees at a Trump rally shoved, tackled, punched and kicked a black protester who disrupted the business mogul’s speech.

“Oh, come on, radio shows?”

O’Reilly noted that if that’s the case – which it certainly isn’t – then tweeting an “infographic” that was first popularized by a neo-Nazi and contains statistics cut wholly from a racist cloth probably wasn’t the best idea.

“Bill I didn’t tweet”.

“You shouldn’t be tweeting!” Because it makes the other side, it gives them stuff to tell the ill-informed voter that you are a racist.

Trump quickly distanced himself from the Sunday tweet, which he has yet to delete from his account.

Trump’s social-media strategy involves the retweeting of unsavory things from his followers, including false statistics and insults toward Megyn Kelly, indicating that the 69-year-old billionaire seems to believe that retweeting is actually a form of subtweeting.

“And that’s totally wrong”, the host continued. In truth, 82 percent of murders involving white victims were committed by white people, according to the FBI’s 2014 crime data. “You’re just handing them the platter”, advised O’Reilly.

“Give it up for lent”, O’Reilly said.