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EDITORIAL: Snapshots from the nation’s press

Within 24 hours of President Donald Trump’s disgusting Twitter outburst targeting MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, two stories making the rounds on social media provided a very different take on life in America in 2017.

That got us thinking: What if Trump used Twitter as a tool to hold up acts of kindness and generosity instead of as a vehicle to attack those who have in some way offended his delicate sensitivities? What if he used Twitter to highlight what’s already great about this country?

Sure, it’s naive to think a Trump social media transformation will begin anytime soon, if ever. But let’s just ponder those two aforementioned stories for a minute and consider the impact they might have had on the president’s nearly 40 million Twitter followers.

There’s motorist Andy Mitchell, who could have ignored Justin Korva, the young man in a fast-food uniform he recently noticed walking along a road on a 95-degree day in Rockwall, Texas. Instead, he offered Korva a ride and learned that the 20-year-old made the 3-mile walk to and from work each day. Mitchell recounted the experience on Facebook, prompting strangers to donate more than $5,000 to buy Korva a new car.

Read more at the Boulder Daily Camera.

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