Donald Trump Will Not Return To Twitter If His Account Is Reactivated

Former President Trump Says He’ll Not Use Old Twitter Account If It’s Restored

After Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion, former President Donald Trump says he will not return to the social media platform if his account is reactivated.

In a statement provided to Fox News, Trump said he will not return to Twitter if his account is restored and plans to officially join his own social media platform, Truth Social.

“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth, 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. The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter,” his statement reads.

 

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Last year, Twitter permanently banned Trump’s account after citing concerns about his influence surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection of the Capitol building.

Truth Social was originally scheduled to be released in February of this year but the app for iOS was temporarily unavailable for unknown reasons as reported by Tech Crunch.

The shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. fell 9.5 percent after Musk’s announcement. Back in October, the company announced it made a deal to acquire Trump Media & Technology Group after he announced his new social media platform.

Before his permanent ban from Twitter, Trump also wrote the following criticism about the platform’s free speech policies: “We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH.”