On social media, anyway
Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts.
With access to his Twitter account back, Trump’s campaign is formally petitioning Facebook’s parent company to unblock his account there after it was locked in response to the U.S. Capitol riot two years ago.
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“Trump is probably coming back to Twitter. It’s just a question of how and when,” said a Republican who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations with Trump about returning to the platform. “He’s been talking about it for weeks, but Trump speaks for Trump, so it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll do or say or when.”
Another Trump confidant who also didn’t want to be identified speaking about conversations with him said that Trump has sought input for weeks about hopping back on Twitter and that his campaign advisers have also workshopped ideas for his first tweet.
I’ll never get over the fact that they actually “workshop” tweets. He says that he drafts his Truth Social posts too and gets comments and edits from others. You have to wonder what the drafts looked like.
You have to love this though considering all the hoopla over the government leaning on social media for partisan purposes:
“If Facebook wants to have this fight, fine, but the House is leverage, and keeping Trump off Facebook just looks political,” the adviser said, noting that House Democrats like Adam Schiff of California told Facebook last month to keep Trump off the platform.
Lol. Yeah, there’s nothing political about the House Republicans using their “leverage” though…
This speaks to the limitation of his vanity project, Truth Social where he has a bit more than 4.8 million followers while he has 88 million on Twitter and 34 million on Facebook. I don’t know if they actually thought all those people would follow him but it’s clear that they didn’t.