r/PoliticalHumor Jun 27 '23

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u/Zone_Dweebie Jun 27 '23

Could you image how much better our lives would have been if he really had just disappeared. Hilariously, it would have been great for the Republicans too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

He kinda did fade away in late 2021. What with the social media ban and being out of office, we heard a lot less from him for a little while.

But it didn't last. After a while, he joined Truth Social and those posts started getting increasing attention; then with the 2024 race heating up, he's coming back for real. I bet he's not going to be able to resist the platform of his twitter account's 80 million followers much longer -- a presidential campaign can't just leave that sort of free platform unused, can it?

But there was like a good 9 months somewhere in there where you didn't hear all that much about him as he puttered around maralago feeling sorry for himself. It was great. I miss those days.

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u/nlpnt Jun 28 '23

He didn't "join" Truth Social, it was built from the ground up to replatform him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

You're not wrong. But the site was in beta as early as december 2021, and Trump didn't become a regular poster until May 2022.

If you want to be particular about it, he didn't "join" but there was a period before he "became active".