--- title: Melania Trump Social Media: Mean Tweets from 2016 Election description: Melania Trump said that as First Lady she would focus on reducing negativity on social media. Here's a look back at some mean tweets. canonical: https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-03T18:52:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:22.531Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the 10 Meanest Tweets of the 2016 Election og:description: From the candidates' own accounts og:url: https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5295 og:image:height: 2978 og:image:alt: melania trump live stream speech PA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the 10 Meanest Tweets of the 2016 Election twitter:description: From the candidates' own accounts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the 10 Meanest Tweets of the 2016 Election > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Nov 3, 2016 6:52 PM UTC  Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, waves to the crowd after delivering a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, waves to the crowd after delivering a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Nov 3, 2016 6:52 PM UTC [Melania Trump](http://time.com/4534216/melania-donald-trump-billy-bush-boy-talk/) said that as first lady she would focus on reducing negativity on social media. [In an interview with ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-explains-son-barron-dads-presidential-bid/story?id=43099325), the wife of [Republican](http://time.com/4552150/hillary-clinton-james-comey-republicans/) presidential nominee [Donald Trump](http://time.com/money/4556172/donald-trump-medicare-tax/) said that she wants to focus on helping children use social media better. “I will focus on helping children and women, and also about social media. In this 21st century, what’s going on, it’s very hurtful to children. To some adults as well, but we need to take care of children,” she said. **Read More:** [_Melania Trump Says She’ll Fight Cyber-Bullying as First Lady_](http://time.com/4556902/melania-trump-donald-first-lady-social-media/) Some of the adults that Trump might have been referencing were those running for president in 2016 or indirectly pulled into the election, often by her husband, who has a habit of feuding on Twitter. Here’s a look at 10 of the meanest tweets of the 2016 election, in chronological order. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/667509134514786308) > [](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/703257866820415488) > [](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/707258582501302272) > [](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/712457104515317764) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/712850174838771712) > [](https://twitter.com/lindseygrahamsc/status/727604522156228608) > [](https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/740973710593654784) > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/755581715918229504) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/781788223055994880) > [](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/793152972322697216) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/"},"headline":"Read the 10 Meanest Tweets of the 2016 Election","datePublished":"2016-11-03T18:52:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:22.531Z","description":"From the candidates' own accounts","url":"https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","Social Media","2016 Election","twitter","mitt romney","Bernie Sanders","ted cruz","Donald Trump","john kasich","Lindsey Graham","Melania Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4d9727a6d2febdd/6988acd597cdff4eb96ae71b/melania-trump-live-stream-speech-pa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"melania trump live stream speech PA","caption":"melania trump live stream speech PA","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4556923/melania-trump-twitter-social-media-mean-tweets/","name":"Read the 10 Meanest Tweets of the 2016 Election"}}]}] ```