Trump to stay on his Truth Social amid Elon Musk Twitter takeover

Special: Previous President Donald Trump wished Elon Musk the most effective with Twitter but stressed he will continue to be on his possess Truth Social, a social media platform he touts as “improved,” “harmless” and that feels “like residence.”

Musk on Thursday concluded his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, tweeting right before midnight that “the hen is freed” and updating his bio to designate himself as the “Main Twit.”

In an unique job interview with Fox Information Electronic on Friday, Trump said, “I like Elon and I would like him a lot of luck. I hope he does effectively with it.”

Even so, Trump included, “I do not think Twitter can be successful devoid of me.” Should really Musk elevate Trump’s life time ban on Twitter, the previous president’s account would technically be lively. Trump declined to remark on if he would ever use it yet again.

Musk has suggested that he would loosen written content moderation practices for Twitter and would reduce life time bans from the platform, but Trump informed Fox Information Electronic that the new plan will not affect how he utilizes social media.

“I am being on Real truth. I like it better, I like the way it will work, I like Elon, but I’m staying on Reality,” he instructed Fox News Digital.

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Trump was completely suspended from Twitter, Fb, Instagram and Snapchat next the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Twitter deemed a quantity of his tweets linked to the violent protests as inflammatory and warned of “the danger of more incitement of violence.”

Trump instructed Fox News Digital that “terminating” him from Facebook, Twitter and other social media corporations in 2021 was “one of the worst choices produced in business enterprise in the past two several years,” pointing to “how poorly these platforms are carrying out.” 

Former President Donald Trump speaks in the East Space of the White Residence in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)

“Facebook is now down $80 billion and uninteresting,” Trump stated. “Twitter has been taken over, and, if it wasn’t for me, it would have under no circumstances been taken above. No a single would have even imagined about it.”

Trump explained to Fox News Electronic that when he commenced using Twitter, it was “a failing procedure.”

“I created Twitter sizzling 12 a long time back, I made Twitter warm,” he claimed. “And then when they terminated, it became cold, and that is what transpired.”

TRUMP WILL NOT RETURN TO TWITTER EVEN AS ELON MUSK Buys Platform, WILL Commence Applying HIS Very own Truth of the matter SOCIAL

Trump, pointing to Facebook mum or dad corporation Meta Platforms Inc.’s plunge in inventory cost — the least expensive considering the fact that February 2016 — and Twitter, stated “engagements are way down and everything else due to the fact I left.”

“And if you bear in mind, 12 yrs in the past, Twitter was a failed company,” he reported. “It was only when I got on that it grew to become thriving.”

A picture illustration with Twitter proprietor Elon Musk. (Getty Illustrations or photos/iStock / Getty Photos)

Trump, following being terminated, established the Trump Media & Technologies Team (TMTG), which launched in October 2021. TMTG’s social media system, Truth of the matter Social, formally introduced earlier this calendar year.

Trump’s comments Friday are in line with comments he created solely to Fox News Electronic in April, when Musk initial signaled he would acquire the platform. Trump, at the time, said he would not return to Twitter and would keep on Reality Social.

Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in Manhattan on May perhaps 18, 2021.  (James Devaney/GC Photos | Application retailer / Getty Photos)

“I want to continue to be on Truth — Real truth is much better,” Trump explained to Fox Information Electronic on Friday. “I like it improved, it is better to my eye, and very last week, it was bigger than TikTok. It was number just one final 7 days.” 

Before this month, Google extra Truth of the matter Social to the Google Perform retailer.

When Reality Social was additional to Google Engage in, it was the No. 1 downloaded application in the retail outlet — forward of TikTok, Amazon, WhatsApp and Instagram, and remained in that location for virtually a week.

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Previous thirty day period, Samsung extra the application to its Samsung Galaxy store, and earlier this yr, Apple added Real truth Social to its App Retail store. During its beta screening, and again when it opened to the public, Fact Social was also ranked No. 1 and the maximum-position totally free application on the App Retail store in the U.S.

Trump, who has hinted at a 2024 White Property run, told Fox Information Digital on Friday that Truth of the matter Social would be his primary platform ought to he launch a campaign.

“If I choose to run, I will only use Reality,” he stated. “When I set out a Real truth, it is all about the put.”

The Truth social network logo is viewed displayed in this image illustration taken Feb. 21, 2022. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration / Reuters Pictures)

“When I place a Fact out, it goes all in excess of the put in any case,” Trump mentioned. “All people who is on Twitter and on all the other areas, they all set it out anyway.”

He added, “I utilized to just set out general public PR statements, and you know what, they have been picked up.”

Meanwhile, TMTG’s plan is to grow to be a publicly shown enterprise via a merger with the publicly traded Electronic World Acquisition Corp., a special goal acquisition business (SPAC) whose sole purpose is to obtain a non-public company and consider it general public.

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The SPAC is currently below investigation by the SEC, chaired by former Hillary Clinton marketing campaign finance chair Gary Gensler, around irrespective of whether there was pre-targeting of the offer and whether it had by now recognized TMTG as its focus on company just before heading public. 

The SPAC is established to expire in December, but if it places down roughly $3 million, it could increase itself for quite a few months or a yr.

TMTG, whose CEO is previous Rep. Devin Nunes, is nonetheless a personal firm and has not yet merged with the SPAC.

Resources close to Trump and Reality Social instructed Fox News Digital that if the SPAC does not prolong, Trump will retain it private, one thing that could be preferable to the previous president as it has come to be “marketable.”

Trump, in a Reality Social post early Friday, stated Fact Social “has develop into to some degree of a phenomena.” 

“I am incredibly satisfied that Twitter is now in sane palms, and will no extended be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that definitely detest our state,” Trump Truthed. “Twitter should now do the job tough to rid by itself of all of the bots and faux accounts that have damage it so poorly. It will be substantially lesser, but better.” 

He extra: “I Like Fact!”