While Elon Musk’s grand, dumb overture has yet to lure Donald Trump back to Twitter, it wasn’t exactly a failure for him. _NYMarg writes
that while he was happy for the Tesla–SpaceX–Boring Company CEO, “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth.”
“Stay” was an odd word to use, as Trump had posted only one message to his own flailing Twitter clone at the time. Since then, he’s drastically increased his “truthing” rate and has continued to insist that he’s perfectly happy on the site. Many doubt that, as he has about 4 million followers on, far fewer than the 88 million he had on Twitter. But the public conversation about unbanning the former president has been driven by Musk, not Trump.
This dynamic was apparent over the weekend. On Friday afternoon, Musk announced that he was reversing the bans on several prominent accounts but still mulling what to do about Trump:Trump decision has not yet been made.Then he launched a public poll on the future of Trump’s account and proclaimed “the people have spoken” when he won by a narrow margin:
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