Trump said he prefers to stay off Twitter and reiterates launch of a competing platform

Donald Trump assured prefer to be out of Twitter and that he can also start his own platform to be able to return to social networks, although he says he favors press releases, which do not waste as much time as “boring” tech networks.

The former president made the comments in an interview with Fox News, and told the driver Laura Ingraham that he likes official press releases because he doesn’t “have to be so careful with every word.”

“We are no longer limited by a certain amount of characters. We are no longer subjected, you know, to the magnifying glass. And frankly, you do it less and you can do it better,” Trump said.

“So I post statements now ‘from the office of’ and statements are picked up by everyone. I mean, it actually works better.”

Even though Trump said his official remarks are reaching everyone much better on Twitter and Facebook that when he was before he was banned, the former president says he can create a competitive platform.

Former President’s aide Jason Miller announced this week that they were two to three months away from launching a Trump-branded social media platform, not to be confused with Frank, to be launched by Trump supporter and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. .

Miller told The Michael Berry Show on Thursday the former president has met with half a dozen companies and is considering a couple of finalists to launch an independent platform from which he cannot be canceled.

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“He’s looking forward to this comeback,” Miller said. “There are several different options that are in front of him, but whatever he does, go ahead and join, it will be something that cannot be censored and removed, let’s say from people like Twitter and Facebook and different companies like that have done to try to suppress conservative voices “.

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Trump’s brand new social network to take on Silicon Valley’s tech giants comes despite the former president telling Ingraham that communicating through press releases allows him more freedom and free time.

“You know, if I put a comma in the wrong place, it gets like ‘he doesn’t know correct English,'” he said. “You have no idea. You have a lot more time, and in fact, you can really direct something and focus on what is very important. It really is very good.”

Trump also gave his future competitor on social media a goodbye blow, saying people will leave after the platform got boring in his absence.

Twitter reported in February that 2020 ended with 192 million daily users, compared to 152 million the previous year, and continued to grow in January 2021, the month in which it de-platform the president.

“We are a platform that is obviously much larger than any topic or account,” Dorsey said in an investor call in February.

Trump alone had about 88 million followers at the time he was pulled from Twitter, and the company projects a reduction in growth in the first quarter of 2021 of 20 percent, down from 24 percent a year earlier.

The second quarter of the year was expected to be even lower, with Twitter blaming the “significant pandemic-related increase” in 2020 for the slower growth rate this year.

“It’s gotten very, very boring and I’ve heard it from a lot of different people,” Trump said. “So we leave and a lot of people leave and a lot of people just leave. It has become a very boring deal.”

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