Sliding into his DMs like…
Celebrities haven’t been shy about publicly expressing their opinions on America’s new president since Donald Trump took office, but actor Seth Rogen discovered a more direct way of communicating his concerns on Thursday.
Literally.
After realising that the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was one of his 5.22 million followers on Twitter, Rogen decided to contact him directly to talk about his Dad, initially through a regular tweet, later followed by a series of direct messages.
A direct message usually means a private correspondence, of course, but Rogen decided to let everyone in on the fun by posting screenshots of the messages he sent to Trump Jr. on his Twitter feed.
Those messages followed
a frankly astonishing press conference held by Trump on Thursday in which he coined the phrase “very fake news,” and was contradicted by a reporter when falsely claiming he had the biggest electoral margin since President Ronald Reagan.
Rogen first asked Donald Trump Jr. to ask his Dad “to resign before he destroys the planet”.
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/832259211639808000
He then addressed more specific concerns in direct messages, such as the resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn earlier this week following contradictory statements delivered to vice president Mike Pence about a discussion Flynn had had with the Russian ambassador to the US.
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/832260626546380806
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/832284826380201985
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/832356055896170496
If we were Seth Rogen, we wouldn’t be expecting a reply anytime soon.
