anti-muz lslim twitter account. what does it say about his view of reality? a president who spends most of his time watching tv or tapping out tweets on his phone is going to have a warped sense of reality. he s not in the every day existence that the rest of us share. reporter: the president touted his use of twitter as a way to circumvent media. go with our social media stuff which is quite powerful, i must say. reporter: and aides defend his practice of not reading thick briefings papers or relying solely on adviser saying twitter gives him an effective way of having two way communication with voerters. he s able to control the news cycle and it allows him to see that and react in realtime. historians are warning of the danger to inform so much of what
president trump fired off a dozen tweets today from the russia immigration to iran underscoring how much he relies on twitter. a short time ago he defended his use of social media. we have spoken to historians who say the immediacy of twitter is intoxicating for donald trump and are worried that the extent to which he s turning to the social media feed is getting unhealthy. for a president obsessed with polls there s nothing he loves more than that popularity barometer in his pocket, his twitter account. i guess we have almost 60 million on twitter. reporter: he s become so relients that politico says in a meeting earlier this year he
stopped a conversation with frustrated lawmakers about his decision to pull troops out of syria in order to look at his twitter account. trump s social media adviser walked in. trump instructed him to tell e him how popular my policy is. he took the congressman through the positive response trump had gotten to the syria decision on social kblemedia. i think the thing that matters the most is he be affirmed by the people who love him. the people who respond every time he says something. he uses twitter almost as a personal polling service. reporter: the president has relied on twitter to share his grievances and announce major decisions. those who study him say more and more he seems to be using twitter to gauge the reaction of his base over the advice of his administrati administration. a forcry historians say from president who is relied on