Look, folks, ex-President Donald Trump’s “big” announcement today was frankly as ridiculous and pathetic as we all expected. As per the usual with this reality TV washup, it all amounted to little more than a petty vendetta from a man who can’t get over the fact that someone (some entity) was able to put him in his place and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it. Several social media platforms banned him for his incitement of the January 6th Capitol riot and he’s still butthurt over it. That’s literally it.
But when it comes to Donald Trump, he can never leave well enough alone. Everything has to be dramatic and ridiculous. And let me tell you now, the actual inner details of this lawsuit are exactly that. So ridiculous, in fact, that he’s apparently attempting to blame his social media ban on none other than former First Lady Michelle Obama.
According to a new report from Newsweek, the ex-president is attempting to implicate Michelle Obama as well as other Democrats in his lawsuit against big tech companies Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Trump is, of course, trying to claim that big tech violated his and others’ First Amendment rights by censoring content and indefinitely banning him from the platforms. The disgraced former president argues that his unfair ban came on the heels of Democratic lawmakers threatening to take away the immunity that social media companies enjoy, a move that Donald’s Aderrall-fried brain believes coerced the companies into banning him on their platforms and thereby helping Democrats with their political campaigns.
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To make the whole thing that much more insane, Trump goes on to take issue with a statement made by Michelle Obama, in which she said it was “time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior.” The former First Lady went on to add that social media companies needed to “permanently ban this man from their platforms,” a clear reference to Donald Trump.
According to Donald’s lawsuit, Michelle’s statement “exemplifies the views of legislators who are making it ‘increasingly clear’ that they want Trump and the ‘views and content’ he espouses banned from Facebook,” per Newsweek’s report.
Trump also went on to attack Vice President Kamala Harris for calling on Facebook to ban his account and goes on to note that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw their support behind revoking Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act.
“The message conveyed by Democrat legislators to Defendants was clear: use the authority of Section 230 to ban Plaintiff and those Putative Class Members who posted content and views contrary to these legislators preferred points of view or lose the competitive protections of Section 230 and tens of billions of dollars of market share altogether,” the lawsuit reads.
In all his rants about cancel culture and the prominence of the government in private companies, it seems Donald Trump forgot that their social media platforms are just that — private companies.
Good luck with that, Donnie boy.
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