THIS COULD BE A YUGE CHANGE – AT 9:18 A.M. ET:  For a Republican president, the idea is to speak over the heads of the mainstream media and directly to the American people.  This new technological capability that Trump will have will make that possible to a dramatic degree.  From CNET: 

President-elect Donald Trump will have access to a system that can send unblockable texts to every phone in the US once he takes the oath of office.

Wireless Emergency Alerts are a program created by a 2006 act of Congress. The so-called "WEAs" can be targeted messages sent to all mobile phones in a particular area, like Amber alerts, or to all phones nationally, like an alert issued by the president, according to a report by New York Magazine's Select/All blog.

Trump is known for off-the-cuff messages on social media, especially Twitter. Tweets and other social missives lent Trump a direct mouthpiece to his supporters, bolstering his campaign and circumventing traditional media that he sometimes claimed was treating him unfairly. But tweets have landed Trump in hot water, too. Critics claim his informal tweeting is unpresidential, pointing to such behavior as an early-morning rant lashing out at a former beauty-pangeant winner, retweets with media linked to white supremecists and messages that promote unsubstantiated news, among others.

The WEAs are limited to 90 characters, though! Trump will need to recalibrate from the 140-character Twitter standard if he wants to shoot all Americans an unblockable text.

Trump's office didn't immediately return a request seeking comment.

COMMENT:  Think of the president able to send an immediate few sentences to tens of millions of people, with no reporters in between.  I kind of like that.

December 1,  2016