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Unsurprisingly, Hillary Clinton isn’t the only person who wants Donald Trump’s Twitter account deleted. More than 200 people have signed a new online petition requesting that the social media giant get rid of the presumptive Republican nominee’s page. Trump has used the platform to make an “onslaught of insensitive and dangerous remarks” that violate the site’s terms of use, according to a change.org petition created by D.C. public relations consultant Erick Sanchez.
Trump’s recent tweets have been appalling and disgusting, Sanchez told DCist. Among this commentary is criticism targeting Muslims have been featured in ISIS recruitment material, he points out in the petition. Sanchez also says that Trump’s responses to the Orlando shooting forced him to say “enough is enough and take action.”
Under the Twitter Rules‘ definition of hateful conduct, users should not “promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation,” among other things. People who engage in such behavior may have their accounts locked or suspended.
Prompted by Trump’s anti-immigrant comments last year, Sanchez launched another petition (which went on to garner more than 2,700 signatures) that called on Jose Andres to back out of a restaurant deal at Trump’s forthcoming D.C. hotel. Less than a week later, the celebrity chef pulled out of the development. He also led a protest urging voters at the GOP primary to dump Trump.
Sanchez says that he is reaching out to the base of supporters from his last petition as well as “like-minded allies” to get Twitter’s attention—whether that means ultimately securing thousands or hundreds of thousands of signatures.