Trump launches new communications platform months after Twitter, Facebook ban

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Brooke Singman | Fox News




EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump launched a communications platform on Tuesday, which will serve as "a place to speak freely and safely," and will eventually give him the ability to communicate directly with his followers, after months of being banned from sites like Twitter and Facebook.

The platform, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" appears on www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk.

The space allows Trump to post comments, images, and videos.

"In a time of silence and lies," a video Trump posted to the platform Tuesday night says. The video then plays news reports describing his suspension from Twitter.

"A beacon of freedom arises. A place to speak freely and safely," the video continues, showing the new platform. "Straight from the desk of Donald J. Trump."

The technology appears to be powered by Campaign Nucleus— the "digital ecosystem made for efficiently managing political campaigns and organizations," created by his former campaign manager, Brad Parscale.

The space allows Trump to post, and allows followers to share the former president’s posts to Twitter and Facebook, however, the new platform does not have a feature to allow users to "reply" or engage with Trump’s posts.

"This is just a one-way communication," one source familiar with the space told Fox News. "This system allows Trump to communicate with his followers."

The site has a sign-up list for people to enter their phone numbers and email addresses in order to receive alerts for when Trump posts a new message.

Trump’s new platform surfaced Tuesday, after advisers had told Fox News that the former president planned to "move forward" to create a social media platform of his own after being banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat after the Capitol riot.

"President Trump’s website is a great resource to find his latest statements and highlights from his first term in office, but this is not a new social media platform," senior advisor Jason Miller told Fox News. "We’ll have additional information coming on that front in the very near future."

The rollout of the platform also comes just a day before Facebook's Oversight Board is expected to announce its decision on whether to indefinitely suspend Trump from Facebook and Instagram.

The board in January accepted a case referral from Facebook to examine the ban, as well as to provide policy recommendations on suspensions when the user is a political leader.

Facebook moved to block Trump "indefinitely" after the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying that they "believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great."

Regardless of Facebook’s decision Wednesday a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News that Trump is permanently suspended from tweeting.

A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on Trump's new platform. A Twitter spokesperson did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

[The Monk]

[The Monk]

His site looks like just a place for him to rant and rave about himself.

Since he'd gone, many things (here included) calmed down...... watch it resurface now!

[lost in melb.]

What a pathetic loser. Still bitching and whining!

Of course, the whole purpose of the blog is that little $ link. Plenty of idiots happy to line his pockets!

[The Monk]

He says he will definitely run again in 2024..... That will put him Biden's age group then and also piss off his daughter who also wants to be president.

[RBP]

We need to get back to moderation. This country has always swung back and forth but the pendulum has gotten too large.

[The Monk]

We need to get back to moderation. This country has always swung back and forth but the pendulum has gotten too large.

True - every thing these days is carried to extremes. Too many keyboard warriors too....

[deebakes]

We need to get back to moderation. This country has always swung back and forth but the pendulum has gotten too large.

there is essentially no middle ground

[RBP]

True - every thing these days is carried to extremes. Too many keyboard warriors too....

Monk, I want you to make sure you understand that the majority of this country is in the moderate middle. The keyboard clan and the microphone screechers are given a HUGELY disproportionate and unrepresentative level of attention. The politicians NEVER used to pay them much mind, but now they do, for some god-forsaken reason. I find it hard to remember and I live here!

[The Monk]

Monk, I want you to make sure you understand that the majority of this country is in the moderate middle. The keyboard clan and the microphone screechers are given a HUGELY disproportionate and unrepresentative level of attention. The politicians NEVER used to pay them much mind, but now they do, for some god-forsaken reason. I find it hard to remember and I live here!

I totally believe you...... In my opinion social media is probably one of the greatest problems experienced today. If I had my way, ALL politicians would be banned from it. Media should report news only. Opinion is not news!

[FBD]

It aint the social media, Monk. Its the banksters, leveraging all that trust they've built up over the years. For most people, even considering that the executive boards of the media companies are right in lockstep with the internationalists who want to subvert all nations to their will.....is absolutely insane. Yet here we are with this exact thing happening, they go to overt lie mode and those who have been lulled into thinking the TV is their friend are still sitting there going OMG, but they'd never lie to us about these things, I'd better go act and do what they're telling me to!