Former President Donald Trump can’t handle even the slightest bit of criticism. The twice-impeached one-term president displayed that once again when trying to cement a deal with the right-leaning social site, Parler, according to an excerpt of Michael Wolff’s new book, “Donald Trump’s January 6: The view from inside the Oval Office,” published in New York Magazine on Monday. Parler touts its site as a free-speech platform, but they tend to ban Democrats/liberals. I was banned within one hour, by the way.
According to Insider, Wolff wrote that the former president’s representatives approached Parler when Trump was in office and proposed joining the platform once he left the White House. Trump had been banned on Twitter and Facebook.
“They had floated a proposition that Trump, after he left office, become an active member of Parler, moving much of his social-media activity there from Twitter,” Wolff wrote, adding that the former president would receive 40% of Parler’s gross revenues and Parler “would ban anyone who spoke negatively about him.”
Ohhhh. Well, that didn’t go down well with Parler, according to Wolff.
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“Parler was balking only at this last condition,” he wrote.
In January, Insider reported that Trump considered creating an account on Parler, the social media app that has been popular with his followers, under the pseudonym “Person X.”
We’re not sure how that would drive traffic to the site, though. Maybe the former president should join the site under the pseudonym “Q.”
So, the former president that thinks that social sites that have banned him are being unfair, with his supporters labeling it as “censorship,” literally wanted to have his critics banned if they said anything in a negative light about him. And recently, when the Nigerian government indefinitely suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a controversial tweet that President Muhammadu Buhari made, Trump said that he should have banned Twitter when he had the chance — even though that’s not how it works. At least not in the U.S.
Trump is running out of sites to join. Is MySpace still a thing? I can’t see Trump’s accounts being reinstated since he’s still spewing the same dangerous red-meat rhetoric that led to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.
You can read the full report here.
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