Upset by reports from the Washington Post and other outlets highlighting its measly readership and concerns that it could detract from a social media platform he wants to launch later this year, Trump ordered his team Tuesday to put the blog out of its misery, advisers said.
Here are Drew Harwell and Josh Dawsey in the Washington Post, in a sparkling story whose every sentence I encourage you to read and savor: In his posts, Trump regularly promoted the lie that the election had been stolen, attacked his fellow Republicans for insufficient fealty, and talked about how much better life had been when he was in office.īut now the blog is over. For 29 days, the site offered a vision of the nightmare universe we would be living in had the social networks not banned Trump following his incitement of a coup against his own government. Trump" offered the sort of staccato, dyspeptic rants that until recently drove 90 percent of American news cycles. Launched on May 4, “From The Desk of Donald J. Last month, after months of hyping up a forthcoming “social media platform” that would serve as a new home base online following his removal from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and other networks, former President Donald Trump unveiled a simple blog.