President Trump says he will return to social media with his own platform in two or three months.

 

President Donald Trump.

One of President Trump's advisors say he will return to social media with his own platform in two or three months. The Hill. Trump advisor Jason Miller made the comment on Fox News saying that the platform will "redefine the game" and draw "tens of millions" of users. President Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. So far none of these social networks have let President Trump back onto their networks. 

My Comment:

There have been rumors that President Trump was going to be doing this for awhile now and it looks like those rumors are true. With Twitter, Facebook and Youtube all banning President Trump in a massive overreaction to the counter coup on January 6th, President Trump has been essentially silenced for the past three months. 

This is, of course, completely unacceptable. The big social media companies interfered in the election and have prevented President Trump and his allies from getting their ideas a fair hearing. It's utterly disgusting and I would love to see all of these tech companies burn. 

Having a major social media network with the draw of President Trump is an excellent idea. It's going to succeed as basically everyone who supports President Trump and likes social media will make an account. I know when President Trump was banned from Twitter my account lost about a quarter of my followers and not all of them were banned. Many just deleted their accounts in protest. 

The biggest losers of this has to be the Twitter alternatives Parler and Gab. Both sites saw a massive boost in users after President Trump got banned from Twitter and I am guessing both of them wanted President Trump on their platforms. And though Trump has made a few posts on Gab it's clear that neither platform won him over. 

So why make his own site instead of using Gab or Parler? I think it's because both websites have had some major problems. Parler was easily taken down because they foolishly decided to work with Amazon. Gab has had issues with user security and have the problem of having a lot of actual scumbags using the site. Neither site is stable in the short or long term and having a network that Trump has full control over would be a better alternative. 

Of course the major problems that Gab and Parler had might plague President Trump's network as well. I can't imagine that Apple or Microsoft would allow an app on their platforms. And there would be a massive problem with banks, credit car companies and tech companies going out of their way to try and destroy President Trump and his platform. Not to mention the actions of individual actors who will make fake accounts, try to hack the platform or even try to post illegal content. 

But in the end I think that the platform will be successful. Despite the fact that I have way too many social media accounts already, I plan to make an account on the new platform as soon as it happens. Not only will it be a good place to promote my blog, it will be good to see President Trump again.