Like idiots with twitter accounts think they can't be tracked down.
One post is a Vine of an animated version of the president engaged in a lewd act. Another asked the president to participate in a graphic sexual act. Other posts directed racist slurs at the president.
One person altered a version of the president's famous "Hope" campaign poster to depict the president hanging from a rope. The post read: "We need 'ROPE' FOR CHANGE we still hang from treason don't we?"
The nation's first black president has long been the target of racist jokes and comments in Internet chat rooms and on social media.
"It's not surprising that people have these views," Gillespie said. "What is so surprising about this is that somebody felt comfortable enough sending such provocative tweets to the president and that they didn't hold the office in high enough regard to refrain from saying this to his face."
The Secret Service monitors social media for threats.
According to the White House Online Privacy Policy, the administration "automatically archives 'tweets' from official White House accounts, 'direct messages' sent to or from official White House accounts, and 'mentions' (tweets from other users to official White House accounts; these tweets contain an @ and the username of an official White House account (e.g., @WhiteHouse). The White House also automatically archives any status that official accounts have 'favorited'."