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Donald Trumpinsists he is contenting himself with his new social media platform and is not all that interested in rejoining Twitter even if his lifetime ban is lifted in the wake of the company’s ownership change.
As the former president toldFox Newson Monday: “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” referring to his own nascent social media platform.
“He’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH,” he told Fox News. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
Truth Social, the Trump-backed platform launched in the wake of his widespread bans, operates under Trump Media & Technology Group and formally launched last month. Former California Rep. Devin Nunes is the company’s CEO.
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Fox News reports the platform has been running on its new cloud services for four days, after a beta-test period which began in February.
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In January,The Washington Postreported thatTrump was “antsy” to get back on social media, and that he was frustrated over the pace of progress in launching Truth Social — a story his team downplayed at the time.
“TRUTH is a platform for my voice and for my supporters,” Trump told Fox News this week. “But I want everybody to come over to TRUTH—conservatives, liberals, whatever.”
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While he also said that Twitter “became very boring because conservatives were thrown off or got off the platform when I left,” it remains to be seen whether the embattled politician would in fact be able to resist the significantly larger platform that Twitter provides.
Since being banned from most major social media sites, Trump has had to send statements via email to reporters, upending what was a defining characteristic of his presidency.
source: people.com
