After being banned from everything, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to build his own version of Twitter. Jason Miller was going around advertising the idea that this was going to be the real deal – big time.
Well, this week Fox News announced that Trump had “launched” a “new communications platform.”
So: what is it?
It’s a blog (presumably WordPress) on his existing personal website.
If you’re thinking “well, he could have just done that the day after he got banned and a lot more people would have cared about it,” then you are correct.
Donald Trump lost much, much steam by being invisible for so long, and if his plan was just to make blog posts on his website, he should have done that immediately. Even if that wasn’t his long-term plan, he should have done it immediately, as I said at the time.
I’m just thinking now that Baby Boomers probably don’t know what a blog is. Most of them did not get on the internet until Facebook and the rest took over the internet. Blogs are a very 2000s thing. You’ll remember that in the 2000s, newspapers were still being printed. Boomers were buying those paper news sheets and reading them. They didn’t get on the internet until it was made safe, sterilized by mega-corporations. Most of the big bloggers ended up getting bought out, working for the man, or just posting on social media.
So, it’s possible that the idea of someone posting their personal thoughts on their personal website is a novel idea to these boomers. Maybe they look at that blog and say “Donald Trump invented a new form of communication! He’s built a new Facebook on his own! STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING!”
I’ll just say this: I hope he is smart enough not to use –
Ugh.
Both Cloudflare and GoDaddy have banned me, and there is zero reason to believe they wouldn’t ban Trump.
That doesn’t mean they will, it just means if someone tells them to, they’ve already established a precedent.
It seems like even a boomer would ask: “can they ban my website?” and that any competent employee would answer “yes, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are both backbone services that have banned people deemed disreputable by the media.”
I get that he doesn’t want to register with China or Russia – but why not? Why not say “these countries have more free speech than we do”?
Personally, I am tired of winning.
