Charles Krauthammer reacts to newly-minted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) remarking "making America great again" requires more than a tweet from President-elect Trump.
BRET BAIER: On the Senate side, the top Democrat there, Chuck Schumer, took to the floor for his first speech talking about the president-elect's communication.
SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER: These issues are too important for mere words. Our challenge is too entrenched for mere tweeting. Making America great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. With all due respect, America cannot afford a Twitter presidency.
BAIER: Charles.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Sore loser. The tweets are working. I mean if they weren't, they wouldn't be using them. As Chuck [Lane] indicated, Trump has used it on North Korea, he's used it on Ford, on General Motors, on this issue, which he won within hours. It works. It has a lot of effect. And he's not even in office. I think when he is in office, it will be a little more problematic because people will be presuming policy out of this, and it's hard to be -- it's hard to be either detailed or specific enough in a tweet to actually make coherent policies....
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