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Stephen Merchant
2 years
Throwing my hat in the ring for the six-part TV farce:
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4 years
Raising a cup for The Office, which first broadcast on this day 19 years ago.
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4 years
I’ve circled myself for you Stephen Merchant/Oasis completists
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5 years
Vital social distancing advice
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3 years
I first saw Sean Lock live at a Bristol comedy club in mid 90s and remember laughing so hard my stomach actually ached. RIP to an hilarious man taken far too soon.
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So very sad to hear of Ewen MacIntosh’s passing. A lovely, uniquely funny man who played Keith in The Office. So hilarious when we asked him to improv a voicemail message that we wrote more dialogue for him, and he stole every scene he was in. A total one-off. A tragic loss. RIP
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7 years
Lot of people saying I should play Alexander Nix, CEO of shady Cambridge Analytica. Don’t see it myself.
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3 years
Good luck England, from Peter Crouch and Wayne Rooney. ⁦ @WarwickADavis
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4 years
Email from my dad about David Prowse RIP, who was from my hometown of Bristol.
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6 years
Vince Cable so bamboozled by Brexit, he’s grown an extra arm just for head scratching
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6 years
A message to everyone nominated for a Golden Globe tonight: good luck, but please remember it’s the work that counts, not the awards. Yours - two time Golden Globe winner Stephen Merchant
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1 year
It’s 22 years since the employees of Wernham Hogg and their office in deepest Slough were introduced to the world.
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3 years
Here I am introducing one of the world’s greatest cultural icons to another. “Mr Christopher Walken, meet Stonehenge.”
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@StephenMerchant
Stephen Merchant
5 years
I’ll tell you who is really suffering because of all this two metre social distancing: pickpockets.
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@StephenMerchant
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6 years
My New Year resolution: look more middle aged. Killing it so far. Happy 2019 everyone
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@StephenMerchant
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6 years
I know what you’re thinking: “If only somebody would make a film about a family of wrestlers from Norwich.” Good news! Me and @TheRock have. Here's the UK trailer.
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4 years
RIP Dame Diana Rigg. Great actress and good sport - lest we forget, she let Daniel Radcliffe flick a condom on her head in Extras.
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@StephenMerchant
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9 months
I loved being a guest on Steve Wright’s show - and being a listener even more. No matter what was happening in real life, his programme was an oasis of breeziness and good humour. RIP to a brilliant broadcaster
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@StephenMerchant
Stephen Merchant
5 years
Glad you enjoyed it. I’ll let Mackenzie Crook know
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Steve Wait
5 years
@StephenMerchant worzel gummidge was a beautiful watch, so perfectly written 👍🏻
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@StephenMerchant
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5 years
Dear TV House Makeover shows. Stop giving yourself only 24 hours to get the job done. It seems unnecessarily stressful for everyone involved.
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@StephenMerchant
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4 years
So happy I can stop losing sleep over the election and get back to losing sleep over coronavirus.
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3 years
I play serial killer Stephen Port in Four Lives, which begins tonight at 9pm on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer . The true story of how four men’s lives were taken by Port and the fight for justice mounted by their families and loved ones.
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8 years
This must be bad. I'm a rich, white, straight, Anglo-Saxon male. And even I don't feel safe.
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7 years
Moved by stories of resilience and heroism in London. Great city been standing for 2000 years. Some pricks in a van won't change that
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4 years
Happy Christmas one and all
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5 years
I’m in
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Senator Briggs (Biblically Accurate)
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Howard Baskin played by @StephenMerchant #TigerKing
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3 years
Found my edit notes for episode one of The Office, which I can’t believe debuted 20 years ago.
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@StephenMerchant
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4 years
Happy Birthday. (Photo by Ray Burmiston)
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4 years
Thanks for all the birthday wishes guys. Lockdown means I’m forced to stay home on my birthday - unlike normally, when I choose to stay home on my birthday
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2 years
The Outlaws has everything you want from a TV show: laughs, thrills and Christopher Walken ironing. Season Two starts tonight, 9pm, @bbcone and @bbciplayer .
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Stephen Merchant
3 years
One of the funniest men I’ve had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with. RIP
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3 years
30 million dollars? I’ll fight you for 30 Disney dollars just to see your scrawny ass go down @ConanOBrien
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Conan O'Brien
3 years
If Mike Tyson can fight Jake Paul for $50 million, I will fight Stephen Merchant for $30 million. It’s being dubbed “Battle of the Pool Noodles.”
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6 years
A fascinating glimpse inside the screenwriter’s craft. #FightingWithMyFamily
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Stephen Merchant
3 years
The flowers make it look like @PaulMcCartney and I have just renewed our wedding vows but in reality we’ve just left a preview of the exhilarating new #TheBeatlesGetBack doc, full of gloriously restored footage of the band working and laughing in the studio. A music fan’s dream.
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6 years
Big thanks to everyone who went to see @FightingWMyFam this weekend and made it UK’s No. 1 film. I know there’s a lot of entertainment vying for your eyeballs, so if you chose our film, cheers m’dears, it’s deeply appreciated.
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5 years
So relieved I didn’t win a Golden Globe this year. They’ve changed the design, so it wouldn’t match my other two
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7 years
Once had privilege of meeting genius Stephen Hawking. We had so much in common. Same first name. Both been in The Big Bang Theory. So much.
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7 years
RIP Keith Chegwin. A lovely man and an underrated actor. Cheggers unable to hit his mark still one of my favourite Extras moments.
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4 months
Many happy returns to the legend @MelBrooks . Such an inspiration. One day I hope to have an EGOT like him. So far I only have an E.
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6 years
Giving Cumberbatch a run for his money. Happy Halloween
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2 years
They say never meet your heroes - but definitely do when they’re as warm and funny as Michael Palin. Photo 2 credit: David Betteridge
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It’s 23 years since we first opened the doors of #TheOffice .
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6 years
Wanna see what a real hero looks like...
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6 years
Thanks to @nbcthegoodplace for making me part of their fall finale. Great fun
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3 years
If you want to educate your kids on working life in ancient Britain, The Office is twenty years old and repeated tonight on ⁦ @BBCTwo ⁩, 10pm
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8 years
So, we're out? Well, at least we have a clear, far-sighted plan for what happens next. Like when we invaded Iraq
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Official trailer for FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, written and directed by me, produced by @TheRock . Starring @Florence_Pugh , @nickjfrost , @IAMLenaHeadey , @JALowden and Vince Vaughn. In cinemas 2019. #FightingWithMyFamily @RealPaigeWWE
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Thanks but I asked for advice from tall, skinny guys - you’re not either!
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4 years
Just spotted myself in the crowd in the archive footage of Oasis at Glastonbury 1994, currently showing on BBC2. Takes me back
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6 years
Here’s @TheRock , introducing our trailer for the movie we’ve made together...
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Dwayne Johnson
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In 2012 I watched a documentary about a young, unknown British female pro wrestler & her wonderfully crazy family. I loved it! It was a story that my @SevenBucksProd had to tell. That girl @RealPaigeWWE would go on to help redefine @WWE women’s wrestling. #FightingWithMyFamily
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A young me at the start of a career in broadcast and entertainment at the University of Warwick radio station. Advice for those starting out on the same path – keep going, you don’t know who might be listening. And have fun. #NationalRadioDay
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@StephenMerchant
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5 years
I enjoyed the movie 1917 but do feel the need to correct it’s tag line
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6 years
Searched high and low and struggling to find a comfy mattress that’ll fit my 6’7” frame. Any tips from skinny, tall fellas out there?
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7 years
Remember when we were worried Sarah Palin wasn't fit to be Vice President? Halcyon days.
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2 years
I notice this article has resurfaced. At least that “excruciating episode” of The Office was over in 45 mins instead of the autumn.
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1 year
Like any great TV show, this year’s #BAFTATVAwards was an emotional rollercoaster
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3 years
Twitter can be a mean ol’ place so thanks for all your kind words about episode one of The Outlaws. The show is a real labour of love for me, so your appreciation is appreciated. Episode Two also now up on @BBCiPlayer .
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7 years
Why does Elliot keep peddling? Does he think he’s making the bike fly?
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1 year
As the new Mission: Impossible movie hits our screens, flashback to Karl’s own movie idea, which somehow incorporated M:I 7. If you’re confused don’t worry – so was he.
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10 years
Hey @YouTube , maybe don't put ads before first aid vids? I don't have time to watch a Red Lobster ad when my gran is choking on a fish bone
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4 years
Bono’s tour bus not as glamorous as you’d expect
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7 years
Can I start feeling smug that I’ve never used Facebook?
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2 years
Stuck for last minute gifts? The spirit of Christmas = tenner in an envelope. The Office Christmas Special Parts One and Two are on BBC Two tonight from 10:45pm.
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4 years
I read that when car dealerships reopen, they’ll trust customers to test-drive on their own. Good news for Dominic Cummings, who can test a new car and his eyes at the same time.
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7 years
Myself, @gdavies and @RichardHammond - three showbiz giants
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5 years
When I was young, The Goodies were my gateway drug to silly, absurdist comedy. RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor
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4 years
I thought I was a shoo-in for this role
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6 years
If you’re like me, you only watch movies with a 90+ Tomatoes score.
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4 years
Of the 50,000 interviews he conducted, I’m sure this one was a personal highlight. RIP
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3 years
20 years today since #TheOffice first hit TV screens. Who knew it would reach so far and wide, including into the pages of this Spider-Man comic.
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2 months
I wonder if that cabbie is still asking for directions… Happy #NationalRadioDay .
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6 years
Hey everyone. If you’re in UK or Ireland you can finally see my film @FightingWMyFam from tomorrow, starring the wonderful, peerless @nickjfrost
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4 years
Someone overheard a couple of bishops slagging off his new trainers
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8 years
RIP George Michael. So good-humoured and self-deprecating when he joined us in Extras. 2016 just won't give us a break
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3 years
Good pop songs with a lyric that bugs me and how to fix them:
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6 years
I would think this puts an end to all those accusations of treason
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
6 years
“I said the word 'would' instead of 'wouldn’t’.” President @realDonaldTrump says he misspoke at the Helsinki summit and that he has “full faith and support for America's great intelligence agencies”
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Bruce Springsteen, one of few rockers to keep his integrity, has spent career singing about working class woes. If he plays your inauguration you’re probably on right side of history. And if the Springsteen tribute act you book to play at yours didn’t show up, you’re probably not
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Bruce Springsteen
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Leave behind your sorrows Let this day be the last Tomorrow there'll be sunshine And all this darkness past Big wheels roll through fields where sunlight streams Meet me in a land of hope and dreams
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#JojoRabbit  is in 🇬🇧 cinemas today, starring #SamRockwell , #ScarlettJohansson and yours truly. It’s a funny, beautiful, uplifting gem of a film - and the perfect way to start 2020. @jojorabbitmovie
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10 months
For those still shopping for gifts, remember it’s best to start with the myrrh.
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1 year
The rumours are true. Delighted to confirm that #TheOutlaws Season 3 is now filming in Bristol. What peril lies ahead for our merry band of lawbreakers? We can’t wait for you to find out.
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Sunday Times columnist @Martin_Hemming is right: I’m only an ‘OK’ tall role model. I got to 6’7” and stopped trying. Hopefully this year I’ll break the 7ft mark. But is @richardosman helping? On Pointless he’s always sitting down like he’s ashamed. At least on TV I walk around.
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Fact!
@chortle
Chortle Comedy
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The Office finale tops favourite Christmas sitcom chart
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6 years
If you’re in North America, I have your weekend entertainment covered. You’re welcome
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7 years
Michael Bay Ave: Very long, lot of car crashes.
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4 years
Good to open mic nights are back
@Independent
The Independent
4 years
Trump goes on bizarre rant about plastic straws
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Cooked 8 person turkey lunch for 2 people, one of whom doesn’t like turkey. #Xmas2020
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3 years
The Steve’s Christmas Speech
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3 years
Tonight, 9pm, @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer
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8 years
Clever Boris. Let some other chump deal with the mess, then step up in a few years time when the dust has settled. Textbook
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4 years
Watching old home movies of dead child/wife = inability to move on
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3 years
Coming soon #BBCOutlaws
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@StephenMerchant
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8 years
Something about the nobility of this reminds me of Lincoln
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show
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8 years
Thanks to everyone sending compliments about my turn in #Logan . Much appreciated. And makes those 3 hours in make-up each day worthwhile.
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9 years
They say celebrity deaths always comes in threes : David Bowie (69), Alan Rickman (69). Don't want to alarm anyone... but Donald Trump is 69
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7 years
Can everyone start eating more banana yoghurt and banana ice-cream pls. I love both but they’re clearly not popular as they’re hard to find. Come on people. Do me a solid
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I’m about as medically qualified as Dr Dre but this doesn’t seem like a good idea, right?
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The New York Times
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Britain will allow for a mix-and-match vaccine regimen: If a second dose of the vaccine a patient originally received isn’t available, another vaccine may be substituted, British health officials said. The new guidance contradicts guidelines in the U.S.
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Pass it on. #TheOutlaws series 3 is coming to @BBCiPlayer 30 May and @PrimeVideo 31 May.
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We’re back (almost). #TheOutlaws Season 3 is coming to @PrimeVideo 31 May.
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Lot of friends sending me compliments having watched Logan/Table19 on a plane. My work best appreciated with free booze and limited oxygen
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Distort your own stats! We can distort our own, thanks very much.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe!
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