From the moment that Donald Trump was arbitrarily ejected from Twitter during the aftermath of a hotly-debated presidential election, there were not only concerns for the future of free speech in America but also for just how Trump would communicate to the public in the future. This could have a major impact on his ability to campaign in 2024, which then opens up all manner of legal issues about “undue influence” and in-kind donations to the Democrats.
So, in order to remain in the news cycle, Trump launched a blog-style site to which he would transcribe frequent statements. While he was unfettered by Twitter’s ban here, these statements would then need to be picked up by news outlets, some of whom have simply been unwilling to dabble in The Donald.
That site is closing this week, rather abruptly, but in lieu of bigger things to come.
Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.
The page “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier.
It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.
“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said via email.
Miller revealed more a few hours later.
But asked online later Wednesday whether the move was a “precursor” to the former president joining “another social media platform,” Miller replied: “Yes, actually, it is. Stay tuned!”
There has long been speculation that Trump could be working to launch a new social media platform of his own in the coming weeks, and Miller’s answer here seems to be feeding a little fuel into that fire.
