“I’m not going to Twitter, I’m going to stay TRUTH,” Trump said.
“I hope that Elon buys Twitter because it will improve it and he is a good man,” he remarked, “but I am going to stay at TRUTH.”
Elon Musk manages to buy Twitter for 44,000 million dollars
Trump added that he will start “TRUTHear” next week.
The platform was launched last month and has been running on its new cloud service for the past four days, after being tested in a beta version since February. Its executive director is former California legislator Devin Nunes.
Trump assured Fox that his social network has attracted “millions of people”: “We have found that the response to TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter.”
In this sense, the former president recalled that there are “bots” and false accounts on Twitter, and that from their social network they are trying to do their best.
Twitter announced on Monday that it had accepted Musk’s buyout offer for about $44 billion and that it would go public.
Since news broke about Musk’s possible takeover of Twitter, speculation has surfaced about the likelihood of the Tesla founder reactivating Trump’s account, as the businessman has repeatedly criticized Twitter’s content moderation policies. the platform and has promised to transform it in the interests of freedom of expression.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat permanently suspended Trump’s accounts after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, where five were killed.
Twitter decided to adopt this measure due to what it considered “the risk of further incitement to violence” by the then president.
Before and during his term, Twitter was Trump’s preferred network, with more than 55,000 messages over eleven years.