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Donald Trump says he won’t be US President without his regular use of social media, particularly Twitter.

In an interview airing on Sunday on ‘Fox Business Network’, Trump said with his use of Twitter, he could bypass “unfair media coverage” and speak directly.

“Tweeting is like a typewriter — when I put it out, you put it immediately on your show,” he said, according to a transcript released by the network. “I doubt I would be here if weren’t for social media, to be honest with you.”

He called his social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram “a tremendous platform”.

“When somebody, says something about me, I am able to go bing, bing, bing and I take care of it. The other way, I would never have got the word out,” he said.

Trump has been urged to cut back on his social media use, and he once acknowledged that even friends have approached him to slow down on his use of social media platforms.

The American President is known to use Twitter to attack political opponents and even media platforms he considers as biased.

Trump has also been accused of retweeting messages posted by white supremacists.

He joined Twitter in 2009 and has since then tweeted 36,200 times. He has 40.9 million followers.