{"id":51023,"date":"2021-10-22T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51023"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:07:22","slug":"trumps-truth-social-is-a-pitiful-cry-for-attention-because-his-twitter-shill-isnt-getting-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51023","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘TRUTH Social’ is a Pitiful Cry for Attention Because His Twitter Shill Isn’t Getting Any"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Donald Trump announced a new business failure<\/a><\/strong> – er, venture – that he says will eventually produce a social media service to “create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against the \u2018Big Tech\u2019 companies of Silicon Valley.”<\/em> Setting aside the likelihood that he will never deliver on this proposal, it still represents an epic feat of hysterical gaslighting.<\/p>\n

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Trump has dubbed his ego-fluffing phantom operation “TRUTH social.”<\/em> A branding exercise that flagrantly ignores his notoriety as America’s foremost pathological liar. It is more likely that it will reside in the Trump graveyard of flops that include four bankrupt casinos, a fraudulent university, a sham charitable foundation, and numerous consumer products that consumers never wanted.<\/p>\n

However, there is a reason that Trump is so determined to launch a soapbox app dedicated to his own words of witlessness that are primarily comprised of lies, insults, and undeserved boasts. In the ten months since he was exiled from Twitter for excessive and deliberate lying and – as Twitter stated<\/a><\/strong> – “the risk of further incitement of violence,”<\/em> Trump has lost most of his online audience. Not that there was much of an audience to hang on to. Internet experts estimated<\/a><\/strong> that up to 70% of the 84 million followers reported by Twitter were either fake, bots, or inactive.<\/p>\n

That said, an analysis of the interactions on the most recent week of tweets by Trump’s spokes-shill, Liz Harrington (whose proxy Trump tweeting is violating Twitter’s rules<\/a><\/strong> against circumventing a ban), show a massive decline from the last week of Trump’s tweets prior to his suspension.<\/p>\n