Trump Is Reportedly Unhappy With The Fact He’s Becoming Irrelevant Following His Ban From Social Media

He's not taking this well at all.


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Former President Donald Trump’s only form of communication with the public — aside from appearing on news outlets like OAN — after he was deplatformed for including the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection appears to be via his blog where he lists his grievances. According to The Washington Post, online chatter about the twice impeached former president has plunged to a five-year low. Embarrassingly, a cooking site has been garnering more page views than Trump’s blog.

The report states that Trump is “banned or ignored on pretty much every major social media venue. In the last week, Trump’s website — including his new blog, fundraising page, and online storefront ­— attracted fewer estimated visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish.”

“Trump is still by far the Republican Party’s biggest star, and conservative lawmakers and provocateurs are now loudly sparring over the importance of loyalty to him ahead of the 2022 midterm elections or a potential second Trump presidential run,” the report continues. “Many of the party’s potential 2024 candidates say they will not run if he does, and many of the party’s luminaries have traveled to Florida to meet with him.”

“But Trump’s continued influence isn’t translating into a bigger online audience, according to a Washington Post review of data from four online-analytics firms,” the outlet reports. “Social engagement around Trump — a measure of likes, reactions, comments or shares on content about him across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Pinterest — has nosedived 95 percent since January, to its lowest level since 2016.”

Trump isn’t happy about this.

“Trump, who has long boasted about his ability to draw an audience online and dominate the conversation, has complained that his statements are getting nowhere near as much as attention as they once did, people in his orbit have said,” the report continues. “They say Trump is increasingly resigned to his banishment from Facebook, a penalty enacted after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and reaffirmed this month, and he’s uninterested in joining many of the conservative-friendly online alternatives that have sought to win his endorsement.”

Trump’s team has a plan, but it’s not a very good one.

“To win back the spotlight, his team is working on a project they’re calling “Trump Media Group,” which would launch this summer and could include a new social media platform of Trump’s own,” the report adds. “Advisers say Trump talks about the project regularly and gets updates from the team building it, though a final product is not ready. Other advisers say he could still join another platform if he received enough money from the platform and could control the terms. He is expected to hold a spate of rallies this summer to secure media attention as well, advisers say.”

Trump would have to compete with behemoth sites like Facebook and Reddit to do that, and from looking at his well-promoted crappy blog, that’s not going to happen. Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are well-established sites, and it took a lot of work, time, and money to get them off the ground. A better idea: Don’t incite violence to the point it gets you banned on social media sites. Maybe he should have thought that out.

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