#AskTrump

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Overview

#AskTrump was a live hashtag-based Q&A event hosted on Twitter by American businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on September 21st, 2015.

Background

On the morning of September 21st, 2015, Donald Trump announced that he would be participating in a live Q&A session on camera from Twitter's New York City office. In the following hours, thousands of people tweeted their questions to the front-runner of the Republican presidential primaries using the hashtag #AskTrump.

Developments

That afternoon, Trump answered a dozen of pre-selected questions via a series of short video responses, most of which were tamed and predictable in nature, including his thoughts on gun control, poverty and student debt crisis.

However, measuring up to his widely established reputation as the most controversial Republican presidential candidate, most Twitter users jumped on the hashtag as an opportunity to take a jab at Trump's most highly publicized statements and policy promises, from his rocky relations with the Mexicans and Islamophobic attitudes to his Slovenia-born wife Melania Trump, and of course, the iconic hair-do. According to Topsy Analytics, the hashtag was used more than 110,000 times on the day of the Q&A event.