The First Day of Donald Trump s New Website Recalls His Earlier Twitterstorms
On 5/5/21 at 8:42 PM EDT
Republican former President Donald Trump spent the first full day of his new blog slamming his Republican congressional critics and large social media companies. His attacks bore similarities to his previous Twitterstorms during his presidency.
Trump launched his new blog, named From the Desk of Donald J. Trump, on Tuesday evening. Since its launch, two of his posts have directly attacked Wyoming Republican Representative Liz Cheney and one has attacked Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Cheney has repeatedly called out Trump for his repeated and baseless claims that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to widespread voter fraud. McConnell blamed Trump for inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump has recently called McConnell a dumb son of a bitch and a stone-cold loser.
The timing couldn’t have been more perfect: on the same day that Donald Trump launched his long-awaited social media site, Facebook scheduled its own long-awaited announcement on whether it would uphold its suspension of his account following the Capitol Hill riots in January. Trump’s site, “
From The Desk of Donald J Trump”, turned out to be more of a blog – or a Twitter-like platform where only he can post – and was quickly overshadowed by the decision announced by Facebook’s new Oversight Board: an independent body of public figures, including ex-Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and ex-
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, who serve as a check on Facebook’s content decisions. The conclusion of the board was much like the site’s initial verdict: that the suspension was justified. It added, however, that Facebook needed to review its decision in six months and make a permanent ruling (the initial suspension was indefinite).
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President Trump’s new communications platform, “From The Desk of Donald J. Trump” was launched earlier this week, but if Big Tech has its way, you won’t be hearing what he has to say on it. On Thursday, Twitter suspended a new account created to share posts from the new site, citing their policy against users bypassing suspension with new accounts.
The Twitter account @DJTDesk had been created to post updates on Trump’s new site, and it was suspended Wednesday night.
A Twitter account made to tweet the statements Trump puts out through his super PAC, @DJTDesk, has been suspended after about a day. pic.twitter.com/m8Uiez1yXa
Account titled @DJTDesk was reportedly set up Tuesday to share personal statements from Trump
As of Wednesday evening, the account had been suspended by Twitter officials for violating its rules
Trump was suspended from Twitter in January following claims his incendiary tweets helped stoke the US Capitol riot
He was similarly banned from Facebook in the days following the riot
On Wednesday, Facebook s Oversight Committee upheld the ban on Trump s account
Without social media, the former President has now created a new website titled From The Desk of Donald J. Trump
He will publish personal statements to the site, which fans can then share to their own Twitter and Facebook pages
Donald Trump. (Getty/SAUL LOEB)
Donald Trump threw a tantrum Wednesday (5 May) after Facebook’s oversight board upheld his ban on the social media platform.
Trump spoke after Facebook’s Oversight Committee, an independent, Facebook-appointed panel that scrutinises the company’s decisions, upheld his suspension from the platform.
From the Desk of Donald J Trump, to call bans by Facebook, as well as Twitter and Google-owned YouTube, “a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country”.
“Free Speech has been taken away from the president of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before,” he fumed in the blog post.