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A new robot prints out Donald Trump’s tweets in real time, and sets them on fire

By Nushmia Khan
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David Neevel is a maker of quirky contraptions. He’s made everything from a machine that separates an Oreo from its cream, a hotdog gun, and a guitar that can be used to type out emails.

Now, he’s created a robot to visually illustrate the anger some may feel each time Donald Trump tweets. With every new @realDonaldTrump tweet, the robot prints out the tweet, burns it, and throws it into an ashtray, all in real time. A camera records the printing-and-burning process and replies back to the given tweet with the video, with the message ‘I burned your tweet.’

You can see the tweet-burning robot in action in the video above, and on Twitter @burnedyourtweet.

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