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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trump's social media app launches year after Twitter ban
By BERNARD CONDON NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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dagon
Trump Media and Technology Group
If I were a betting man, and past performance were an indicator of future results for a Trump venture...
“After over A YEAR of muzzling by the Liberal Big Tech Tyrants: TRUMP. IS. BACK,” wrote GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a fundraising email appeal Monday.
Groups like the Republican National Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund also have been fundraising off the launch.
The grift abides. Why is it only with the tech companies that Republicans push back against big business?
Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Banks have been their darlings for decades.
Bob Fosse
The end user agreement is interesting in particular users must agree to not “disparage, tarnish or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.”
The ‘truth’ as long as if doesn’t hurt our poor widdle feelings.
bass4funk
It won’t put them out of business but it will hurt them no doubt, but the most important thing will be that they will have competition and conservatives will never be silenced again. So that’s a great new change.
Bob Fosse
Enjoy! With no libs to own, you’ll soon get bored.
lincolnman
And the first set of Truth Social guests will be;
Rudy Giuliani on the "Art of the Coup" - how to make up fraudulent state electors and fake certification lists...
Sidney Powell on the self-own - how to defend yourself in court by stating "no reasonable person should believe anything I say"....
Eric Trump on 500 ways to plead the 5th...
And lastly, the CEO himself on securing Top Secret info in a box in a closet...
No doubt this venture will turn out like those other successful Trump enterprises Trump University, Trump Airlines, and Trump Atlantic City Taj Mahal Resort and Casino....
bass4funk
Ahhh, more liberals that proclaim to be clairvoyants….interesting
Most of the liberal run social medias are scams
Yes, since most of the sponsors are liberals and sponsors liberal outlets and media platforms, so yeah, private donations are the way. Interesting, the liberal cry babies want conservatives to support Biden’s failing Russia policies but they want conservatives to boycott Trump’s new media platform….interesting….
Bob Fosse
You use Twitter.
bass4funk
Not really
Blacklabel
Liberals mad. “If you want your own then build it”. Ok we did.
see you there- even though you aren’t really invited.
Bob Fosse
This won’t affect Twitter or the other sites in any way because the people who join truth social will still use Twitter.
Oh they’ll jump up and down and swear that they don’t. But they do.
Mocheake
Ten people tried to download the app and crashed the server but I'm a bit slow so I believe this version and I'm willing to wait patiently too.
Simon Foston
BlacklabelToday 09:00 am JST
No, you won't. They would have to pay me.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 08:21 am JST
Indeed. They can have the whole app to themselves and no one else will have to put up with them.
ulysses
trump also hoped he would win a 2nd term!!
I've been laughing about this since morning, 'Truth' and trump in the same sentence is hilarious!!!
ulysses
Nunes tried his best to sue cows on twitter and failed.
I am sure he will try to keep his bovine enemies off the dark web for bigots!
bass4funk
The date for the launch is not important as the lunch itself.
I agree!! Now true Freedom can finally reign! For once we are in agreement on something. Yippee!
ulysses
Sure we remember the resounding success of the trump website which was shut down within a few months.
There are a lot of people registering to prank trump, so the next few weeks are going to be hilarious.
And someone with as low intelligence as Nunes as it head, this is going to be the funniest thing ever for 2022!!!
Express sister
OK.
I think lunch is the best meal of the day.
Why would anyone not be invited to a totally open free-speech environment?
Unless it isn't really about free speech.
bass4funk
No, directly!
Does a fish swim?
dagon
I agree!! Now true Freedom can finally reign! For once we are in agreement on something. Yippee!
Seen Jordan Klepper have fun with the MAGA crowds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y4KUQbAdMg
I think there will be a lot of registrations under anonymous accounts just to have fun riling up the MAGA bunch with fake CRT outrages and tales of George Soros in his underground lair.
lincolnman
Liberals laugh....
I assume you're not talking about "The Wall"....
Thanks - for not inviting us to the sewer....
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 09:57 am JST
Directly to each other, behind closed doors.
Blacklabel
guarantee all the usual liberal Twitter trolls are signed up on the waiting list.
Which was nearly 200,000 people waiting last I saw.
It took all the other social media platforms months/years to get to 1 million users.
this one? a month or two at most?
Jimizo
I don’t think the walls will close in on Twitter if you leave or that this will lead to its demise.
I’m all in favour of free speech. I’m sure we’ll get plenty of intellectual discussion on stolen elections, staged shootings, Jewish space lasers and the like.
Pukey2
Trump 2024!
TokyoLiving
The app should also come with word search games, virtual crayon coloring games and virtual playdough games..
Perfect for IQ of the Trump fanatics who download the app..
Bob Fosse
Twitter has 350 million users.
But aim for the stars!
ulysses
trump has $450 million in debt, his followers probably think that is an achievement!!!
lincolnman
Indeed, all the ones working for the Russian IRA...
With 190K having an IP address in Moscow....
Nope, stealing Top Secret info then hiding it unsecured for a year will definitely bring you more time than a month or two...
Truth Social was established to do two things;
Allow Trump to continue fleecing his flock...
Allow Putin to inject his propaganda directly into the MAGA-sphere, continuing to manipulate and play the MAGA-faithful....
Bordeaux
Also, being tried for tax fraud is considered a badge of honor amongst his supporters!
He is screwing it to "the man!" YEEAAAHH!
bass4funk
Even better, cut out the middleman liberals.
Jimizo
Sounds like you are all in favour of echo-chambers.
I didn’t get that feeling given you railing against ‘liberal’ ones in the past.
I guess it’s a partisan rather than principle thing.
Makes sense.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 10:40 am JST
Cut ourselves out, thanks. It would be a sad state of affairs if I couldn't think of better ways to waste my time than getting some app to read comments by Trump groupies ranting on about all the things they like ranting on about.
Express sister
There's a waiting list for free speech?
Bob Fosse
We’ll be hearing a lot about this over the coming months then it’ll slowly but surely fall off the radar, just like Parler and Frank. Both were heralded as a new dawn of free speech, both have less users combined than followers for most low ranking celebs on Twitter.
bass4funk
And uh….how would you know this? Oh, yeah, liberals claim they know everything…
Anytime!
Liberals do it everyday as well on every single site that allows comments, a few come to mind…..
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Looks like Trump finally got the safe space he needed. Good for him.
nishikat
How come Fox website still uses embedded Tweets? They didn't replace Twitter with TrumpBook. If you look at their pages with updated feeds it's just with Liberal Twitter and the reason is TrumpBook is about as reliable as the Trump wall.
bass4funk
I agree and if trolls want to stir something up they can get blocked….but then again, they would have the freedom of speech to dissent, maybe Twitter can learn something from that.
Jimizo
Can you get the app in Japan?
Bob Fosse
No. If you search for the app in the Apple Store the first result is Twitter. Har!
Bob Fosse
No they wouldn’t. Read the terms of use.
Haaa Nemui
Not interested. I am however interested in “Talking Ben the Dog”, the children’s game that this new right wing social network beat in the charts.
bass4funk
Lol, when liberals talk about math, I just can’t stop laughing,
Great for now and people outside that want it can will find a way, this is 2022 not 1996
Don't relax, don’t worry about the numbers of people that sign on, you hate the guy anyway so it shouldn’t be of any concern to you since in your opinion he’s irrelevant.
I predict it will be more than 50 million.
lincolnman
I anticipate Truth Social will rival SNL and Colbert for MAGA-world comedy gold...where else could you get;
Marjory Taylor Greene talking about religious-funded space lasers helping keep Texas warm during electrical grid blackouts...
An interview with Hugo Chavez on stealing elections...from the grave...
Rudy Giuliani on adult bookstores, lumber yards and hair care...
The Mazar Accounting Firm on how to avoid being an accessory to tax and insurance fraud...
Clorox - a medical miracle...
Guaranteed to be a laugh a minute...I'm signing up now....
bass4funk
Nope! Not in 2011, 2014, 2016 all the faux Mueller investigations, right on the acquittals (twice) and the Dems losing the House this year and mostly likely the Senate after that and the Presidency as well going forward.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
Not if they're being censored by "Truth Media." Lol I have 0 interest in joining this dumpster fire, but it's quite funny for a site to claim to be all about free speech to threaten to ban people for exercising for saying things Trump et al don't like. It's almost like they're not really interested in free speech at all. hmm
Jimizo
So you don’t have the app then?
starpunk
When is this this trash talking big mouth sassymouth going to shut up? He has scarred the nation with incalculable damage and America just doesn't like, need or want him. He needs to have ALL social media access blocked permanently as well as being put into prison for all his crimes - which basically has been everything he's said and done. At best he is a Qaddafi, a total troublemaker who is NO GOOD.
bass4funk
Like all of us when we pass away.
Oh... No, he didn't, especially when you look at it now this past year, can't even recognize it.
He didn't create inflation, allowed illegals to go in, allowed for the military to become weak and woke, was unapologetic to our adversaries, never showed his hand, was tough on crime, supported our police and deeply, supported energy independence and we have none of that, so yeah, we do need him or someone like him. Biden is definitely not going to be it in 2024, at this rate if the Dems come back after 3 election cycles it will be nothing short of a miracle.
Why do you and the left hate free speech? You talk about democracy and yet, you want it banned for him. I don't want anyone banned, I want to hear and see and know what these funny people are up to. I truly and fundamentally believe we should never ban freedom of speech, you don't like the guy, turn the channel or turn off the radio, I do that with most liberal sites.
What crimes?
Qaddafi? That's like saying AOC is equal to Mother Teresa, come on now....
Blacklabel
Somebody mad.