Former President Donald Trump was deplatformed on Twitter and Facebook after inciting violence, so now he’s planning to start his own social media site that his top adviser said will “completely redefine the game.” Jason Miller told Howard Kurtz on Fox News’s “MediaBuzz” that the former president will be back online in two to three months and launch a new social media platform that he claimed would attract tens of millions of users, according to Fox News.
“I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform,” Miller said on Sunday. “And this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media, it’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does.”
“It’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does, but it will be his own platform,” Miller said.
There would be hurdles facing the former president. The three largest cloud providers are Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, and it doesn’t seem likely that any of them would provide hosting for a Trump platform. Amazon suspended the far right-wing site, Parler, and that forced it to go offline. Parler feigns to be a “free speech” platform, but it bans liberals. I was banned within an hour of joining, as were many others on the left.
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Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, stopped the former president from joining fringe social media platforms Parler and Gab after he was banned from Twitter, according to a report from CNN in January.
Apparently, Gab isn’t happy about Trump’s plans to start his own site.
This is what gab forwarded on its telegram account regarding Trump starting his own social media network. 😂 pic.twitter.com/GPq1meoQTb
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 22, 2021
I wonder how Trump feels about repealing Section 230 now. It protects website operators from lawsuits for the posts, videos, and photos that its users share on their services and content moderation — and that would come in handy for the former president if he does start his own social media site.
Featured image via Michael Vadon/Flickr, under Creative Commons license 2.0
