The former president says he’s committed to Truth Social, the social media platform on which he has yet to post. We’ll see how long that lasts
. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.”
It’s possible that Trump won’t follow through on declining to rejoining Twitter if offered. The platform was essential to Trump’s rise to power in 2015 and 2016, as media outlets continually covered his posts — often without context or fact checking. During his presidency, advisers continually pressed him to stop tweeting, saying it was distracting from the administration’s messaging, but the president declined to heed their advice.
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