Donald Trump's Twitter 'Likes' Include Strange Tweets About Jodi Arias, Furbies And Criticism Of Billionaire

Before his Twitter account was fertile ground for potential international crises, President-elect Donald Trump used the microblogging social media platform much like any either citizen. And before Trump's Twitter account had the power to plunge share prices for massive companies, the real estate mogul had a habit of "liking" — née "favoriting" — a somewhat random miscellany of tweets.

There's been plenty of discussion about what Trump himself tweets and some of the folks he retweets (including teenagers, white supremacists and neo-Nazis), but few people have commented on the tweets he has liked.

Perhaps that's because he has liked so few tweets. As of Wednesday, the president-elect had liked just 46 tweets, dating back to May 2010 when he liked a tweet from MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski about Trump ties.

Since Trump thrust himself into the political spotlight in 2015, his few likes on Twitter have been somewhat standard fare: mostly messages from family and election-related posts. When he was a normal citizen, albeit a rich and famous normal citizen, there was a more eclectic mix of likes.

For example, in one May 2013 tweet he referenced Jodi Arias, a woman who briefly fascinated the country when she was convicted of killing her boyfriend. "[Arias] stated that she follows me on twitter so I really hate to be saying that she is guilty but sadly, she is as guilty as it gets," he wrote.

In a somewhat odd response, a man with the username "hugo levi" tweeted, in all caps, "WHAT MAKES HER LOOK GUILTY IS THE WEAK DEFENSE THAT SHE HAS REPRESENTING HER." The text of the tweet was accompanied by a picture of a man posing in a home, without any context for why the picture was a part of the tweet. Trump liked the tweet.

Trump also had a habit of liking tweets praising him on his political musings or his firing decisions on the reality TV series "Celebrity Apprentice." He also liked a number of tweets from family and Fox News personalities.

Trump also liked a post with a picture of a child in a play-car and a tweet from his son, Donald Jr., commenting on a tweet about Furbies, the '90s toy fad.

But in an exchange that seems to defy Trump's penchant for self-promotion, he also liked a tweet from March 2, 2013, that seemed to be criticizing the now-president-elect in a exchange involving Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush. On March 1 of that year, Trump tweeted, "Continued success is built on building a brand people know will deliver. Unless you’re @KarlRove. Then you just blame the Tea Party."

In response, a Twitter user sent a series of three tweets, the first starting by saying, "You act like it's Rove's fault the teabaggers marginalized the right as fundamentalists and fringe lunatics." The second tweet included both Rove and Trump, and it continued a line of attack on Trump. The final tweet in the chain of three read, "@realDonaldTrump @KarlRove... for one so self-posessed, you aren't very self-aware. You've hurt the GOP as much as anybody." Trump liked that third tweet.

It also appears that either Trump, his staff, or someone else may have gone back and cleaned up his Twitter account.

Journalist Michael Tracey posted to Twitter in August noting that someone had unliked a number of tweets on Trump's account, including one that talked about genitalia. Other journalists posted to Twitter around the same time noting that some likes appeared to be missing, as well.

An archived version of Trump's account online shows he had liked as many as 91 tweets in July 2016, which means the 46 on his account Wednesday may have been deemed good enough to stick around.