Overview
#AskTrump was a live hashtag-based Q&A event hosted on Twitter by American businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on September 21st, 2015.
Background
On the morning of September 21st, 2015, Donald Trump announced that he would be participating in a live Q&A session on camera from Twitter’s New York City office. In the following hours, thousands of people tweeted their questions to the front-runner of the Republican presidential primaries using the hashtag #AskTrump.
Developments
That afternoon, Trump answered a dozen of pre-selected questions via a series of short video responses, most of which were tamed and predictable in nature, including his thoughts on gun control, poverty and student debt crisis.
However, measuring up to his widely established reputation as the most controversial Republican presidential candidate, most Twitter users jumped on the hashtag as an opportunity to take a jab at Trump’s most highly publicized statements and policy promises, from his rocky relations with the Mexicans and Islamophobic attitudes to his Slovenia-born wife Melania Trump, and of course, the iconic hair-do. According to Topsy Analytics, the hashtag was used more than 110,000 times on the day of the Q&A event.
Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1]Twitter – Donald Trump’s Tweet
[2]Twitter – Hashtag Results for #AskTrump
[3]Twitter – Donald Trump’s Tweet
[4]TIME– Donald Trump Invites Twitter to Ask #Trump
[5]Daily Mail – ‘When you “deport all immigrants” where will your Slovenian wife be going?’ The Donald’s Twitter Q&A backfires as he gets hit with a barrage of insults and ridiculous questions
[6]Salon – Is the #AskTrump Twitter interview the worst idea of the 2016 campaign season?
[7]The Huffington Post – Trump Posts #AskTrump Twitter Callout And It Totally Backfires
[8]The Washington Post – #AskTrump: Donald Trump hosts Twitter chat
[9]USA Today – This is how #AskTrump backfired on The Donald
[10]The Daily Dot – The 11 best (and worst) questions from #AskTrump
[11]Wired – Yeup, #AskTrump Backfired
[12]Storify – Some of the most entertaining questions from #asktrump
[13]Topsy – Tweets per day for #asktrump
[14]Twitter – Patrick’s Tweet
[15]Twitter – Joe Heenan’s Tweet
[16]Uproxx – The Most Hilarious Responses To Donald Trump’s #AskTrump Twitter Q&A
[17]Thought Catalog – 28 Tweets That Prove AskTrump Was the Hilarious Miracle We All Needed Today
[18]Mediaite – Donald Trump Wants You to #AskTrump Questions on Twitter -- Probably a Bad Idea
[19]Telegraph – Donald Trump’s Twitter Q&A backfires