Former US President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the sale of Twitter to tech billionaire Elon Musk but refused to commit to rejoining the platform.
Musk, the world’s richest man, completed his $44 billion bid to buy the company late Thursday after months of uncertainty and speculation.
“I’m so glad that Twitter is now in sane hands, and no longer run by radical left lunatics and lunatics who really hate our country,” Trump said on his very own social platform.
Musk has indicated he will lift Trump’s ban on Twitter, which was imposed after the 2021 attack on the US Capitol that the Republican leader is accused of inciting.
But Trump has not said whether he plans to return from his Twitter exile and declined to comment on the issue in an interview.
Trump told the cable network that he likes Musk and wishes him well, adding: “I don’t think Twitter can succeed without me.”
Most observers believe the 76-year-old real estate magnate won’t be able to resist the lure of recapturing the online megaphone he once boasted of more than 80 million followers.
He has just over four million followers on Truth Social, which he founded in October last year.
A return to Twitter in the days leading up to the Nov. 8 midterm elections could affect the race, with posts disparaging candidates they don’t like and baseless claims of election fraud. , as he did after his defeat. 2020
‘Commander in Tweets’
Musk has tried to reassure Twitter staff that he doesn’t intend to completely rebuild the company, even though he quickly fired four top executives and rebranded it as a “digital town square.” I talk about changing where a wide range of beliefs can be discussed. “
Trump, who has a more avid and unfiltered tweeter than any other world leader, has often courted controversy, wielding the popular @realDonaldTrump account like a cudgel and using it to tweet about the Covid-19 crisis and the 2020 US election. I used to spread misinformation.
At times, often when he was caught up in the headlines of the latest scandal engulfing his presidency, he would post dozens of messages a day, earning him the title “Commander in Tweets.”
Some of the former president’s more incendiary posts were used as evidence in congressional hearings on the 2021 coup.
He tweeted 25 times on January 6, 2021, appearing to condemn the riots in one particularly inflammatory post.
Twitter pulled the plug on the 12-year-old account in January 2021, citing concerns that Trump would use it to “further incite violence.”
Trump-watching analysts are closely following what will happen to the banned accounts of some of his closest allies, such as far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose personal account is Covid-19. 19 was suspended for spreading false information about the pandemic.
