Anderson Cooper Explains Why He Muted Trump on Twitter

On Monday night, Anderson Cooper offered a somewhat surprising revelation: he’s decided to mute Donald Trump on Twitter. Cooper explained to Stephen Colbert on Late Show Monday night that he has plenty of people and resources keeping him up to date on Trump—unsurprising, considering he’s one of CNN’s best-known journalists—and at the end of the day, “I just don’t want to have that drama in my life.”

The roller coaster that is Trump’s emotional state, as seen on the social-media platform, does still give a fascinating look at the president’s inner life, Cooper admitted—although sometimes the prolific coverage of the president’s tweets can become a distraction. “It’s an emotional seismograph,” Cooper said. “He’s like a live wire of emotion. We had to wait for…