{"id":55225,"date":"2022-10-29T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55225"},"modified":"2022-10-29T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T18:07:14","slug":"trumps-delusional-desperate-and-as-always-dishonest-response-to-musks-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55225","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Delusional, Desperate, and (as Always), Dishonest Response to Musk&#8217;s Twitter Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soap opera that commenced after Elon Musk proposed to buy Twitter in April has finally come to an end. Well, at least the buying part. Complex melodramatic narratives will continue into the future due to the unstable mental state of Musk, as well as the social and political ramifications of his ownership of a virtual town square with international scope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Delusional, Desperate, and (as Always), Dishonest Response to Musk's Twitter Takeover%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55225\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Twitter\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41063\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leading the parade of emotional defectives is, of course, Donald Trump. His view of Musk taking over Twitter is typically drenched with personal interests that range from his competition with Twitter, via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55003\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, and his massive but fragile ego. Remember, Trump was so hurt by Twitter permanently suspending his account that he sued them. The suit was quickly dismissed because the court found that it had no rational legal basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52795\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Dismisses Trump\u2019s Loopy Lawsuit Against Twitter for \u2018Failure to Plausibly State a Claim\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday Trump responded to the news that Musk&#8217;s acquisition of Twitter was completed. And as expected, it was riddled with his hallmark personality traits: whining, bragging, and lying. He <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109246063558686800\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;TRUTH SOCIAL has become somewhat of a phenomena. Last week it had bigger numbers than all other platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest. It also looks and works better to my eye. I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country. Twitter must now work hard to rid itself of all of the bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly. It will be much smaller, but better. I LOVE TRUTH!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, Truth Social is a phenomenal flop. When Trump asserts that <em>&#8220;it had bigger numbers than all other platforms,&#8221;<\/em> he is referring only to the number of downloads from the Apple and Google app stores. It still has a tiny percentage of the users that Twitter and other popular social media sites have. And the only reason its download numbers were high is because it just became available many months after its launch. In fact, it has already dropped below all of the apps Trump mentioned, and isn&#8217;t even among the top fifty on either the Google or Apple app stores.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comment has the requisite infantile insults that he includes in virtually every public statement he makes. And it&#8217;s always the same malarkey about alleged <em>&#8220;Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country.&#8221;<\/em> You have to wonder whether there are any medications that can correct his tedious repetitions, or if he is already on medications that are causing it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Trump&#8217;s pathetic post, he also gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/trump-to-stay-on-his-truth-social-amid-elon-musk-twitter-takeover\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> to Fox News regarding Musk and Twitter. And it was predictably demented. He told Fox that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t think Twitter can be successful without me.&#8221;<\/em> And that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Twitter was a failed enterprise. It was only when I got on that it became successful.&#8221;<\/em> And that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If I choose to run, I will only use Truth.&#8221;<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52670\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Which he has said before,<\/a> although this time he&#8217;s leaving an out in case he doesn&#8217;t run)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The notion that Trump won&#8217;t return to Twitter if he is allowed is preposterous. He has about four million followers on Truth Social. He had more than 80 million on Twitter. Do you think he&#8217;d pass up that opportunity to languish in the adoration of his cult?<\/p>\n<p>It really is astonishing how deranged Trump is. He really thinks that people miss his tweets. As an example of what the Twitterverse is missing without Trump, he posted 47 times on Truth Social yesterday. The subjects ranged from praise for Brazilian fascist Jair Bolsonaro, to a rancid rant against the judge presiding over his trial in New York. But mostly he posted about how magnificent he thinks he is and how much everybody loves him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55221\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stable Genius? Trump Maniacally Attacks the Judge Presiding Over His Fraud Trial in New York<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Trump didn&#8217;t post a single note of concern or sympathy for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attempted murder<\/a><\/strong> of Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s husband. Perhaps he&#8217;s still hurt by Pelosi observing that he <em>&#8220;is not man enough&#8221;<\/em> to comply with the subpoena he received from the January 6th Committee investigating the insurrection he incited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nancy Pelosi: Trump isn\u2019t \u201cman enough\u201d to testify in front of the Jan 6 Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BoPAsQak76\">pic.twitter.com\/BoPAsQak76<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSington\/status\/1584248581929676802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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Well, at least the buying part. Complex melodramatic narratives will continue into the future due to the unstable mental state of Musk, as well as the social and political ramifications of his ownership of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,11,16],"tags":[554,1464,33,1457,1458,1163],"class_list":["post-55225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-socialmedia","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-fox-news","tag-social-media","tag-truth-social","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-twitter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-emJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52888,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52888","url_meta":{"origin":55225,"position":0},"title":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Bid for Twitter is in Big Trouble, and So is Trump&#8217;s TRUTH Social","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/13\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It was only one month ago that Elon Musk announced that he intended to acquire Twitter and take the company private. 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