National Public Radio, just following a tradition it has done every July 4 for almost three decades, tweeted 140 characters at a time the entire Declaration of Independence
“Read line by line, the text appeared to reference more than once the current political climate in the country. “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” the 241-year-old Declaration of Independence read at one point, the most retweeted line of the NPR thread.”
Not everyone understood what NPR was doing.
Some supporters of President Donald Trump didn’t recognize one of the nation’s founding documents and accused the broadcaster of inciting violence and even revolution.
It caused a frenzy for lots of Trump supporters who thought the words, in the tweets, were created to use against Donald Trump.
Many of those comments have since been deleted and at least one user deleted an entire Twitter account.
But the tweets live on, some still posted online while others have been preserved in screen captures.
As the Huffington Post reports:
"They didn’t recognize the words and thought NPR was calling for revolution."
Here are some of those tweets and the reactions to them:
By Ed Mazza
