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conversations between people of similar or indeed identical political views. At the same time, conversations could be carried out in real time but on a much bigger geographical scale: the state or indeed the country. Finally, the quantity of information of all stripes exploded; the sheer volume was historically unprecedented. The creation of Facebook in 2004 in turn served to change the character of the world wide web by introducing the world to social media, which has become the most important means by which people connect to each other, including when it comes to matters of politics.

The Internet age has created an entirely new platform for presidential policy communications and has changed the relationship between the president and the American people. As I have sought to argue, early presidents sought to directly communicate with the American people. Using social media, “a President can communicate his thoughts at any time, on any subject, without the vetting process traditionally used by, to one degree or another, other modern Presidents” (McKechnie 3), a vetting process that served to mediate the relationship between the president and the public in an effort to maximize potential support for the president. Social media allows the president to become a personal figure that people can view in a different, more immediate way than was the case prior to its development. The fact that social media allows the citizen to now seemingly directly contact the president instantly places the president in a different relationship with potential voters.
This became clear when Donald Trump took charge of the Oval Office in January of 2017. “What FDR was to radio and JFK to television, Trump is to Twitter” (Gabler Billmoyers.com) because Trump has changed the rules of presidential communication through his use of