# Donald Trump — Twitter, December 19, 2020 — "Be there, will be wild!" The 1:42 a.m. tweet — "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" — that the [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] Select Committee called the **"tweet heard around the world."** Posted December 19, 2020; not deleted (the account was suspended on January 8, 2021). The Committee treated it as the specific signal that summoned the January 6 crowd. This file captures the post as artifact — its role as a datable mobilization trigger and primary document. The paired Quote file [[Donald Trump - be there will be wild]] handles the utterance. ## Artifact properties | Property | Value | |---|---| | Posted | 2020-12-19, 1:42 a.m. | | Deleted | No (account suspended Jan 8, 2021) | | Account | `@realDonaldTrump`, Twitter | | Text | "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" | | Thread context | "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election" | | Status | Primary document in the [[J6 Committee]] incitement case | ## Why it matters as a Social Post **1. The post is a forensic exhibit.** Its significance is documentary: the J6 Committee built a section of its case around this single tweet, tracing how "will be wild" propagated through far-right forums into travel plans, weapons logistics, and the crowd that breached the Capitol. As an artifact it is one of the most consequential individual posts in American history. **2. The downstream is unusually traceable.** Unlike most rhetoric, this post has a documented causal chain: 210+ criminal defendants cited Trump's call as why they came (CREW). The post-object connects directly to a quantified real-world mobilization — the ideal case for this folder. **3. It is the hinge of the incitement arc.** Between the [[Donald Trump - 2020-05-29 - looting starts shooting starts]] moderation milestone and the [[Donald Trump - 2021-01-06 - pence courage tweet]] posted mid-attack, this is the mobilization that turned rhetoric into an event. ## Related entries - [[Donald Trump - be there will be wild]] — paired Quote - [[Donald Trump - 2021-01-06 - pence courage tweet]] — posted during the attack it summoned - [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] — the event - [[Twitter]] — the venue ## Followup TODOs - **Capture archive_url** — Wayback snapshot (account suspended, so news/archive captures are the record). - **Screenshot** into `/imgs/` and embed.