Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account
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I don't think this is true. Trump's message, image, and behavior were possibly the most widely/frequently broadcast of any human in history. There is effectively no stone left unturned for him.
There was also some analysis during his presidency that the more he tweeted, the worse his approval rating got. That might not be true these days, but it shows that not all publicity is good publicity.
> What's the point of limiting himself to only his supporters on truth?
He can squeeze them for donations, just as he does with his email campaigns.
Much has changed since then. His opponent came with a relatively clean track record, at a time when he himself was seen to be struggling with a crisis. The opponent now has several crises of his own to deal with, most notably inflation, an issue that strikes close to home for a lot of voters.
So broadening his base may not be necessary. His base is quite enthusiastic, and it may suffice merely to demoralize his opponents. That strategy had worked for him in his first election, and now can come with the advantage of spending two years harassing the incumbent.
There are always too many variables to predict confidently, but his wisest course of action may simply be to do exactly what he's always done and hope that circumstances break his way -- which they very well could.
That said, we'll see come election time, assuming the RNC chooses him
If anything I would say it's slightly more annoying for the insurrection conspiracy theorists to deal with because any time someone brings up those tweets they'll have to explain that when you connect all the dots it actually means Trump was behind it, and by that stage you've already lost the attention of most readers.
It’s not clear at all that Trump coming back to Twitter is good for him, or for Republicans. Banning him I think took a lot of the bad side of the conservative culture out of the spotlight and bringing him back will make it front and center again. A consistent message I saw from Republicans was his policies aren’t bad but could he just stop Tweeting. It will get ugly but if Trump is able to rile DeSantis up into a public fight, it will probably be bad for discourse but good for Democrats.
The ideological piece would be the bad ideas and sunlight thing. Trump, as an important voice in the Republican Party should be visible so people can vote against him if they so choose.
Speaking of the benefits of sharing one's thoughts on HN.
I think this is giving Musk too much credit. He hasn't shown ideological consistency on any issue, and that includes free speech.
Matches Trump pretty perfectly in that way, though.
The ultra-rich like Musk fit right in because "small government and no regulation" movement plays right into their hands. In murky waters where everyone is off your case, you can grab even more money and power.
Recall that Musk expressed a very clear distaste for Cheetoh Jesus in the early days but, like many before him, the black hole that is Trump pulled in the "star" and then ripped it apart. He got a taste of that world and he liked it. Being horrible and owning it is sort of freeing (for someone who can afford it).
“The country with the most Twitter users is the United States with a total of 77.75 million users.”
No worries, here are infinite Trump tweets generated by a Markov model: https://www.locserendipity.com/Markov_Trump.html
Exactly this. This was the whole point of Musk's Trump survey and so on, to keep the Trump saga on Twitter going.
So the blame for all the drastic measures such as mass layoffs and such, should be equally shared by the ex-board if not solely.
As if 13 billion extra debt would've not mattered when he signed the contract?
I mostly remember Musk fans cheering this madness on as it was happening. The timing was ridiculously terrible given the market downturn but I'm pretty sure anyone sympathetic to your current argument would have been cursing the board if they had rejected his bid.
Again, this was their fiduciary duty to do so but then not holding them accountable for selling out is ridiculous.
EDIT: I mean morally accountable.