Trump to Launch Social Media Platform

By Ahmed Rahma

The former President of the United States of America (USA), Mr Donald Trump, is planning a return to social media with the launch of his own platform.

Trump’s adviser said on Sunday, exactly one month after his ban from the bird app, Twitter, for allegedly inciting the US Capitol riot, that the former president will return soon with his platform.

Trump has chafed in relative silence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida since losing his Twitter account and the protections and powers of office.

Recently, he has released short statements which many have likened to his tweets of old.

Speculation has been rife that Mr Trump might seek to create his own TV network in an attempt to prise viewers from Fox News, which was first to call the crucial state of Arizona for Mr Joe Biden on election night, to Mr Trump’s considerable anger.

But on Sunday, adviser to the immediate past President, Mr Jason Miller, said social media was the immediate target.

“The president’s been off of social media for a while,” he told Fox News Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz, “[but] his press releases, his statements have actually been getting almost more play than he ever did on Twitter before.”

Miller said he had been told by a reporter the statements were “much more elegant” and “more presidential” than Mr Trump’s tweets, but added: “I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform.

“And this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media, it’s going to completely redefine the game and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does. But it will be his own platform.”

When asked if Mr Trump was going to create the platform himself or with a company, Miller said: “I can’t go much further than what I was able to just share, but I can say that it will be big once he starts.

“There have been a lot of high-power meetings he’s been having at Mar-a-Lago with some teams of folks who have been coming in, and … it’s not just one company that’s approached the president, there have been numerous companies.

“But I think the president does know what direction he wants to head here and this new platform is going to be big and everyone wants him, he’s gonna bring millions and millions, tens of millions of people to this new platform.”

Mr Trump, his supporters and prominent conservatives alleged bias from social media companies even before the events of January 6, 2021, when five people including a police officer died as a mob stormed the Capitol, seeking at Trump’s urging to overturn his election defeat.

In the aftermath of the attack, Mr Trump was also suspended from Facebook and Instagram.