--- description: A viral Trump tweet-burning robot joined Twitter Tuesday with one goal: roast President Donald Trump title: This Robot Is Lighting Each of President Trump's Tweets on Fire image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Robot Is Lighting Each of President Trump's Tweets on Fire by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 29, 2017 11:07 PM CUT by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 29, 2017 11:07 PM CUT A viral [Trump tweet-burning robot](http://time.com/4705140/donald-trump-twitter-north-korea/ "undefined") 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 "undefined"). 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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4717683/donald-trump-tweets-robot-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4717683/donald-trump-tweets-robot-fire/"},"headline":"This Robot Is Lighting Each of President Trump's Tweets on Fire","datePublished":"2017-03-29T23:07:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:24.237Z","description":"Major burn","url":"https://time.com/4717683/donald-trump-tweets-robot-fire/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Science topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4717683/donald-trump-tweets-robot-fire/","name":"This Robot Is Lighting Each of President Trump's Tweets on Fire"}}]}] ```