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# This Robot Is Lighting Each of President Trump's Tweets on Fire

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by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Mar 29, 2017 11:07 PM UTC

by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Mar 29, 2017 11:07 PM UTC

A viral [Trump tweet-burning robot](http://time.com/4705140/donald-trump-twitter-north-korea/) joined Twitter Tuesday with one goal: roast President Donald Trump, by literally burning his official tweets to a crisp.

Amsterdam-based engineer David Neevel, who is from Portland, Ore., created the account to share videos of a Rube Goldberg-style contraption with a blazing mission: it prints, burns and trashes Trump’s tweets.

For every Trump tweet, the machine responds swiftly with robotic disaffection and a video. The short clips show the automatic machine spitting the president’s update out word for word on paper, lighting it aflame with a standard cigarette lighter, and finally, dropping it in an ashtray.

“The goal with this robot was the same as with a lot of my robots: finding small, but not necessarily simple, ways of making life better,” Neevel told [NBC New York](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Engineer-Built-Robot-Burning-Trump-Tweets-417446613.html?cid=sm%5Fnpd%5Fnn%5Ftw%5Fma).

Neevel, feels that the stone cold robot performs a vital function for people who find the president’s updates stressful. “Burning each tweet allows people to acknowledge the tweet’s existence and perform a small ritual of dismissal of it,” he said.

A day after its debut, the account has racked up roughly 15,700 followers with the stunt.

> [](https://twitter.com/burnedyourtweet/status/847061166304235521)

> [](https://twitter.com/burnedyourtweet/status/846858076800077824)


> [](https://twitter.com/burnedyourtweet/status/846845227503702016)

> [](https://twitter.com/burnedyourtweet/status/846738077456453632)

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