Perhaps you’ve been aware enough — or paranoid enough — to have heard that Trump, furious over being dumped by Twitter, has started his own media social venture thing.<\/p>\n
This is not<\/em> the Trump blog thing he started a while ago which got such a pitiful readership he canceled the whole business. No, this one is called Truth Social or something like that, and it’s somehow made a public offering and somehow has gotten investments…when I first read this, I thought, “Boy, are you guys schmucks. Investing in a Trump business?”<\/p>\n But never mind them. They’ll lose their money. Because no one associated with Trump knows anything about running an actual, effective business.<\/p>\n To wit: today, Bellingcat just send me this item about Trump’s “Truth” venture:<\/p>\n Former US President, Donald Trump, has long talked about setting up his own social media company after being banned from mainstream platforms. Yet his newly announced outlet, Truth Social<\/a>, has not had the best of starts, as noted by the New York Times<\/a>, the Washington Post<\/a> and the Daily Dot<\/a>. Pranksters were reportedly able to claim the handles<\/a> @donaldtrump, @realdonaldtrump and @donaldjtrump after an open sign up page was discovered despite the platform not being set for beta launch<\/a> until next month. The newly minted @donaldjtrump account quickly\u00a0posted pictures<\/a> of a pig defecating.<\/em><\/p>\n The pig. That’s the animal news part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps you’ve been aware enough — or paranoid enough — to have heard that Trump, furious over being dumped by Twitter, has started his own media social venture thing. This is not the Trump blog thing he started a while … Continue reading