If you thought the 2019 Twitter feud between Trump and Chrissy Teigen was wild, the aftermath is even wilder. John Legend appeared on“The Breakfast Club”and revealed that Trump reportedly tried to get Twitter to remove Chrissy’s viral insult after their very public back-and-forth. The whole thing started when Trump went after Legend as a“boring musician”following his MSNBC special on criminal justice reform. Chrissy, never one to hold back, fired off a response that lit up the internet. And according to Legend, that response bothered the White House enough that they actually reached out to Twitter about it.
That’s not just hearsay either. A former Twitter content moderation official testified before Congress in 2023 that the White House had contacted the platform regarding the tweet. Twitter, to its credit, never pulled it down. The post is still out there, immortalized in screenshots, memes, and now congressional testimony. Legend said Trump“already knows we hate him”and that the Legend-Teigen household has been on the opposite side since the first term.
This story is a perfect collision of celebrity culture, social media power, and politics. It raises real questions about whether the government should have any say in what stays online. What do you think? Should platforms ever listen when a politician asks them to remove a post?
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