Tue Apr 26, 2022 – 1:56 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Former President Donald Trump says he will not return to his famous Twitter account even after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of the beleaguered social network is complete, opting instead to stick with his own new network, Truth Social.
Twitter announced the $44 billion sale Monday, weeks after Musk, a vocal critic of speech discrimination by online communication platforms, revealed his intentions to buy the platform, eliciting a wave of hyperbolic reactions from left-wing users.
Among the questions surrounding the takeover was the possibility of restoring Trump’s account, which was a cornerstone of the president’s public image since his 2016 rise but was permanently suspended in January 2021, ostensibly because Trump supposedly “incited” the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump, however, has preemptively declared the question moot. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News Monday, referring to the social network he announced in October and launched in February. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”
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