Elon Musk, left, and Wendell P. Weeks, center, listen to President Donald Trump as he meets with company leaders at the White House on Monday January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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Twitter’s most renowned banned user, former President Donald Trump, applauded the platform’s new ownership beneath billionaire Elon Musk, who previously stated he does not think in permanent suspensions.
“I am really pleased that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that definitely hate our nation,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account, a Twitter-like platform run by the Trump Media & Technology Group.
The former president did not address the possibility of a return to the platform. Musk has stated he would lift Trump’s permanent suspension, which Twitter installed in the wake of the Jan. six, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol just after its leadership feared additional violence could stem from his tweets. Musk stated he favors extra short-term measures.
Trump, for his portion, stated months ago that he would not return to the platform even if Musk reversed the ban. He started his message Friday by touting Truth Social and claiming with no proof or specifics that the platform “had larger numbers” final week “than all other platforms, like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest.”
“Twitter have to now operate tough to rid itself of all of the bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly,” Trump wrote on Friday. “It will be a lot smaller sized, but much better.”
Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank verify enterprise set to take Trump Media and Technology Group and its Truth Social platform public, slipped Friday.
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