University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga Professor Offers Extra Credit To Any Student Who Can Get Him Blocked By Trump On Twitter

Socrates Johnson8 years ago

Compact and nimbly, Donald Trump’s fingers are meant for one thing and one thing only: firing off weapons-grade tweets. You step into the Twittergon with Don, ya best bring your A game, because he’s sniffing out lightweights and dishing out KOs in 280 characters or less.

Earlier this week, one lowly University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor dared to enter the Twitterdome to do battle with the Commander-in-tweet. Alone, his fate would surely be sealed, but the UTC prof decided to enlist the help of his students. Their mission, should they choose to accept it: craft a tweet that would get the professor blocked by the President of the United States.

Here’s hoping this professor is teaching a class where an assignment like this would even remotely make sense. “Politics in the Social Media Age” or something like that.

Even still, as someone who considers himself something of a Twitter expert (those hot takes aren’t going to tweet themselves), I guess I don’t yet fully grasp the power behind the Twitter block. Does it win you a prize? Surely, it can’t win you a prize. I’m the biggest fan of prizes that I know, so I’m positive I would have heard of this. Upon further contemplation, getting Twitter blocked by the President must earn you negative prizes.

I’m all in on drafting useless tweets that won’t see the light of day though, so I’ll give this little exercise a shot. No profanity or personal threats? Ok, those are my go-tos, but here goes nothing.

Hey @realDonaldTrump, you’re not as good at golf as you think you are.

Yeah, I’m thinking I pretty much nailed that one. Hey, UTC professor, if you’re reading this, you can go ahead and add those five extra credit points to my freshmen year English class, please and thank you. 19-year-old me would very much appreciate it..

[via Twitter/@_Ecary]

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