Just this week, President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted that millions voted illegally, contradicting his past statements—by that I mean tweets—declaring the election was valid while also railing against the Green Party’s recount efforts.

After all the garbage the Donald has spewed on the Internet, I have come to one conclusion: Our future president is an internet troll.

Now, if any of you knew me when I was twelve, I used to be pretty crafty on a keyboard myself.

With that experience, I’m qualified to attempt to figure out why the hell the President-elect is tweeting this garbage.

The media’s reaction to the tweet, and indeed, their reaction throughout the entire campaign, has demonstrated they will jump on any and all the bait that Donald Trump offers.

In response to Trump’s absurd tweet, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal—you name it—jumped on the claim.

Now the millions of ardent Trump supporters who blindly believe his claims just heard his opinion—as broadcasted through the media—and most likely believe it.

This is the so called “fake news epidemic” in action, except real and trusted news sources are the culprits of spreading the fake stories.

The media can fact check all they want and even rant on air about how the tweet is false, but many of Trump’s supporters already don’t trust the media—again based on Trump’s whining that they treated him unfairly by, it should be noted, basically just giving the guy air time.

Twitter isn’t that popular of a social media network anymore.

While I personally love my 140 character rants, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that many people who voted for Trump—specifically elder Americans and rural voters—might not even have a Twitter account or even know what the hell a Twitter is.

The social network nowadays is placed in the “News” category in most app stores.

I bet that many Trump supporters, however, are getting their news from traditional television networks or newspapers, the same ones that broadcast the Troll-in-Chief’s garbage tweets.

Now here’s the more concening part: the media jumping on all this bait distracts from real issues.

When they could be covering the fact that Trump has surrounded himself with people who have contributed large sums of money against same-sex equality, or have allegedly said very racist and/or anti-Semitic things in the past, they instead rant about yet another 140-character lie.

The presidential candidate, now president-elect, and future president lies constantly on Twitter (and in real life).

Instead of broadening his audience, the media should perhaps focus on more concerning matters.

The presidential candidate, now president elect, and future president lies constantly on Twitter (and in real life).

One of those concerning matters is the sheer amount of conflicts of interest Trump faces.

While he will be ceding the position of chairman and president of The Trump Organization to his daughter Ivanka come 2017, he still owns the private company—and I also assume he has an interest in the financial success of his daughter.

It doesn’t take much to realize that this could go very, very badly.

What happens when he wants to build a hotel—a profitable venture for the president-elect—in a country with which we have not-so-good relations?

Would it be so hard for a foreign government to influence Trump by denying his company a permit to build a hotel, for example?

“Lessen the US’s sanctions (etc.) on us, and we’ll throw your company a bone.”

Oh, and all the more concerning, is that these tweets aren’t just Trump’s screws momentarily becoming loose.

No, Trump is meticulously saying these inflammatory and dumb things to get the attention off the concerning issues.

“The media is investigating my sketchy business practices?”

*Tweet something demeaning about the next minority on the list* and, suddenly, Trump is in the clear—while also spreading hate that some of his followers just eat up.

Again, what could possibly go wrong?

Of course we must always stay vigilant with such an unpredictable president-elect, but we need to stop overreacting, broadcasting, or ranting about his trolling—all it does is help him.

As we approach Doomsd—I mean inauguration day—take my twelve-year old self’s advice: don’t feed the troll.