The channel’s been verified, so I gotta assume it was set up by someone from the President’s actual team. (I’ll keep saying “he’s streaming,” even though I’m pretty sure Trump is not handling the tech himself.) As yet, all he’s streamed is a rally in Minneapolis. His channel had only 135 followers last night, according to The Verge, but at the time of this writing it’s got almost 50,000. I gotta admit, that piques my curiosity. It’d be like your most graceless family member entering a ballet competition — you have no idea what they’re doing there, and you feel like you need to keep an eye on them. So yeah, I followed the President on Twitch because I gotta see what he does with this. I dare not surmise what political purpose a Twitch channel plays. Maybe it’s an attempt to harness the youthful demographic who’ve replaced most other forms of entertainment with game streaming? Good luck tearing those kids away from Fortnite streams long enough to pay attention. So basically, it’s the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids meme. I’m cool with that. That said, if you do go to Trump’s channel, I highly recommend keeping the chat turned off. I dipped in when the channel was offline and was treated to a cavalcade of spam — most of it not even relevant to the President’s politics. If there’s one thing more annoying than chat spam, it’s off-topic chat spam. I can only guess it’ll get worse once he’s online again. If nothing else, it’s going to be incredibly bizarre to read the notification “DonaldTrump has started streaming.”
