{"id":56082,"date":"2023-01-18T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56082"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:43:59","slug":"trump-is-said-to-be-plotting-his-return-to-twitter-affirming-that-truth-social-is-a-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56082","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Said to Be Plotting His Return to Twitter, Affirming that Truth Social is a Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last November Donald Trump announced that he is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. In the weeks that have followed he has done nothing to advance his candidacy except to post rancid comments attacking his enemies (especially Special Counsel Jack Smith<\/a><\/strong>) on his Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, and calling in to right-wing Internet programs to whine<\/a><\/strong> about having lost the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow will mark two months since Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account. However, Trump has been insisting for months that he prefers his own Truth Social website<\/a><\/strong> and has not posted on Twitter since being unbanned. In fact, Trump has continued to attack Facebook and Twitter as “boring”<\/em> and failing without his awesome presence. He has called it a “disgrace to democracy”<\/em> that “shouldn\u2019t be allowed to do business in this Country,”<\/em> because they have “only a Radical Left point of view,”<\/em> and are “hated by everyone.”<\/em><\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump Orders His Cult To \u2018Drop Off of Twitter\u2019 and Calls For It To Be Outlawed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

That may all change now that Trump is an announced candidate for 2024. His need to disseminate his singularly apocalyptic perspective of America<\/a><\/strong> might supersede his animosity toward Twitter for having rejected him. In the months that he has been posting on Truth Social, he has only managed to accumulate about 4.8 million followers. He had more than 88 million on Twitter. And his massive yet fragile ego simply cannot abide that shortfall. Consequently, he is said to be plotting his return to Twitter. As reported by NBC News<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts. […] Twitter planned a permanent ban, but new owner Elon Musk reinstated Trump\u2019s account on Nov. 19 and then criticized the company\u2019s previous leadership for the ban.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NBC is quoting an unnamed Republican insider who says that “Trump is probably coming back to Twitter. It\u2019s just a question of how and when. He\u2019s been talking about it for weeks.”<\/em> This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed Trump’s behavior in the media. He demands constant attention and will do and say almost anything to get it.<\/p>\n

Apparently that includes tacitly admitting that his own social media platform is a total bust. If Trump begins tweeting again he is not only conceding that Truth Social has failed, he might even be breaching his agreement to post exclusively on it for a specified period of time. Not that Trump is ever bothered by breaking contracts.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump’s disappointment with Truth Social is warranted by the fact that it has failed to achieve any measure of success. Recent reports show that has seen a a nearly 30% decline in unique visitors over the past few months.<\/p>\n

From the day Truth Social was launched it was mired in the sort of mayhem that can only be produced by incompetence. It repeatedly crashed and hosted innumerable fake accounts. It\u2019s being criminally investigated by the SEC and a Grand Jury in New York. And the shell company it partnered with to go public suffered an 85% decline in stock value over the past ten months.<\/p>\n

Truth Social’s problems have been festering from the start. And now that Trump is reportedly considering dissing it by re-embracing Twitter, it’s prospects are unlikely to improve. Here are a few of the pot holes it has encountered on the way to its demise…<\/p>\n