It really fires those neurons to think that the current measuring stick used for determining how close we are to nuclear war is being pushed forward to the closest it has been because of Twitter shitposting from a meme candidate who barely won because the opposition weren't anywhere near substantive as he was when it came to mainstream perception.
I don't even blame Trump himself necessarily, I think he's a victim of the lack of the media honestly communicating about issues that actually matter. This is the man who said “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris” when discussing the Paris climate accord which clearly demonstrates he has absolutely zero idea to what in the living fuck is going on around him. Despite all of his lofty aspirations of being the outsider shaking up the system, he's become the most complacent yes man who just listens to the spin being told to him. He was a huge proponent of single payer health care for decades, why hasn't he implemented it? It's because of all the people in his office whispering half truths in his ear because he doesn't know any better.
That said though, I think restricting his Twitter usage would be kind of a moot point. Not only would that rile up those 'free speech' (yet also somehow "100% free and open market") advocates to put another layer of aluminum foil sheet on their head, but Trump doesn't seem like the kind of guy to be quite just because one medium of communication has been taken away. The man has enough money he could find a way to communicate anything he wants.
What I believe needs to be done is some kind of change in how the media reports on political topics. Despite being heavily left-wing myself, the majority of left-wing media annoys the shit out of me just for how irrelevant their content truly is. Australia recently just had a plebiscite on same sex marriage where there was an obnoxiously large campaign for the yes vote. For fucks sake, I got text messages at 11pm at night just telling me to vote yes in something I already had voted in a week prior. There was so much virtue signalling from media telling people to vote in this half billion dollar opinion poll just because same sex marriage is currently marketable yet when there was the chance to elect a government that a) not only would have enacted the same sex marriage change without going through all the hoops, but more importantly b) actually has an economic policy that makes some sense, everyone who works in media doesn't "want to seem biased" and instead talked about unimportant shit like "Should we become a republic? We asked some tradies outside our office for their thoughts".
The worst part of the media's negligence to actually inform people of the issues is that people who actually want to be informed have to find their own sources. Somehow for a lot of people that meant online communities like /pol/, reddit and YouTube where people misquote people misquoting someone misrepresenting a statistic that wasn't even gathered correctly in the first place. This is the current environment people are getting their information from and I believe Trump is no exception from this. He watches InfoWars people. Now THAT is truly terrifying. This is why anti-vaxxers are making a resurgence. This is why flat earthers are making a resurgence. This is (partially) why white nationalism is seeing an uptick. People are having to find their own news and most people don't want to be challenged in their viewpoint.
Let's be real though, if we are to have nuclear war, having it be instigated through Twitter shitposting from a real estate tycoon and a leader who has his captors so badly under Stockholm syndrome that they think he is a literal God would make for a funny chapter in a world history textbook. "Why did the reality TV star get a hold of the nukes anyway teacher?" "Because the opposition said 'Pokemon Go to the polls".
Oh god, I'm not sure if it's going to be funny in our history books or just plain sad. Guess I won't know until the rest of his presidency shakes out, but damn I hope that he doesn't pull more stupid shit. The amount of salt I will feel if I get blow shy high over twitter beef would be insurmountable.
There's a good point to be made that it's all the medias fault. Whether left or right leaning, none of them did any favours and honestly, even after a year, I'm still over here wishing that Bernie Sanders ran independently. I imagine that we would him as president right now had he done so. If he was running, the media would have naturally put him in a good light, because they would have been throwing so much dirt toward Trump and Hillary that none of them would have expected they were making Bernie come out looking like gold. Ahhh, what a good dream that is.
I totally agree with your statement about being mostly left wing, yet being annoyed with the content that they put out. Earlier today I was writing out a script for another video and I was thinking about doing something on Arya Mosallah but decided to check BuzzFeed first, hoping for something even more ridiculous and non-YouTube related to talk about. Instead, I ended up scripting a whole video about how stupid their news section was. It's a mess of biased and unrelated issues. Hell, I looked at their section for world news and found two articles mostly about the US. Throughout the whole thing, there were tons of LGBT+ articles breaking the stream of the few bits of actual news they had posted. Never mind the gossip rag that they called the health section.
Of course, that's just the most stupid example of left-wing media that can be found, but I'm still nursing a headache over the short look at the website.
I used to actually hold a minor bit of hope for the Trump presidency, as stupid as that seems now. When he started I actually gave a little bit of credit to the idea that he might shake things up. Instead, like you said, he lets his office members tell him what to do, and unless they directly go against his image, he doesn't do anything to put reasonable people at his side. I more pity him at this point than anything else. My last and greatest hope for the Trump presidency now is that he doesn't start the end of the world while in the oval office.