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The proliferation of nationalist and nativist movements all over the world have capitalized the wide impact of social media, especially in Twitter. In the case of the United States, first as candidate and then as President, Donald Trump initiated an active use of twitter to disseminate his views on migration and migrants. This paper analyzes the themes and the political implications of his tweets from Trump’s electoral win to the end of the second year of his presidency. The authors’ assumptions are that Trump’s rhetoric untapped a collective sentiment against migration and to those who supported views to protect migrant communities. The findings show that some topics were retweeted massively fueling perceptions that most Americans were against migrants’ communities and their protectors. We conducted content analysis of the tweets sent by Mr. Trump as President during the first half of his presidency. We used Trump’s Twitter personal account as @realDonaldTrump. Trump as President continued using his personal account as policy and political media instrument rather than to use the official account that traditionally all Presidents have used as @POTUS. Since Trump run in a nativist platform, we examined his tweets with strong negative sentiments against migrants and immigration in general.
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