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Donald Trump’s new blog? Much-hyped ‘communications platform’ shows former president is just ‘shouting into the void’, say critics
STORYBusiness Insider
- Banned from Twitter and Facebook, Donald Trump has pledged to reclaim the dialogue with his own communications platform, but spectators are not impressed so far
- From the Desk of Donald J. Trump amounts to little more than ‘glorified blog’ reminiscent of a mid-noughties website, according to critics
Donald Trump’s new communication platform has been widely mocked as little more than a “glorified blog”.
Long-time Trump adviser Jason Miller once promised that the former president would create a platform that would “completely redefine the game” on social media. Instead, Trump’s new site, which is attached to an existing website used to sell Make America Great Again merchandise, merely contains short blocks of text and little interaction, making it more reminiscent of a political blog from the mid-noughties, according to critics.
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Nu Wexler, a former Google and Facebook executive and Democratic operative, tweeted simply: “He’s launching a blog”.
Miller has since insisted that Trump’s new website is not the social media platform he has spent months hyping and that this will still emerge “in the very near future”.
However, the fact that Trump still has to communicate with his followers via statements posted to his own website illustrates the scale of the challenge he faces in gaining a fraction of the attention he enjoyed before he was banned from social media platforms.
At this point, Trump is just shouting into the void. He isn’t letting anyone shout back
Trump has struggled for attention since he was kicked off Facebook and Twitter in January in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6.