Elon Musk tenure The head of Twitter is off to the rockiest start, and Donald Trump is enjoying the carnage.
The former president recently personally mocked Musk for negative media coverage of his Twitter leadership, according to two sources familiar with the situation. He said it could be a good business opportunity for social media apps, suggesting that the majority of MAGA users may move to his own “Truth Social”.
Since taking over Twitter a week ago, Musk has cut back on the company’s workforce, dealt with internal insurgency, and foiled an early dispute over content moderation before facing calls for an advertiser boycott. I was.
” [former] The president isn’t mad about it. “He said some [snide] Musk may not be all that great of a business giant after all. “
A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s jubilation over Musk’s mishap comes as other online conservatives lash out at the new leader. Many apparently expected Twitter to immediately adopt a no-interference approach to content moderation under Musk, and the more modest move is seen as a disappointment. Conservative podcaster Tim Poole tweeted that it was “totally bullshit” after Musk said people previously kicked off Twitter could not immediately and unconditionally come back.
Several of Trump’s aides attended. Shortly after Musk took over the company, Trump’s social media adviser Dan Scavino said his former White House Twitter account was “suspended due to unusual 🧐 activity Was it!?” Comment.
After Musk’s Twitter deal closed, Trump used his Truth Social account to make his social media app, which Google just approved for the Android Play store, the most downloaded app. emphasized. Truth Social’s traffic dropped to about 3.3 million unique his visitors in September and his August and his daily active user count is his 238 million. Twitter is far behind.
But the former president took the time to top the Play Store for downloads, grabbed the opportunity to celebrate, and Musk’s eye-popping Twitter purchase price tag. “Look who’s number one – the truth. So it’s worth over $44 billion???” Trump wrote.
Trump’s dizziness over Musk’s early setbacks is somewhat ironic, given that Truth Social has been plagued with various struggles and delays. It likewise attracted a barrage of bad press for its shambolic rollout — a protracted announcement that Trump himself has occasionally furiously trash-talked behind closed doors. In addition, Trump’s own claimed business acumen has also been criticized over the years as being based largely on deception and hype. It has grown over the years as it has drawn a disastrous collapse.
Trump and Musk have teetered in public statements about each other over the course of the Twitter ruckus, teetering between tepid admiration and thorns.
In public, Trump wears a mask and a heartfelt, amid rumors that Trump may return to the rostrum that roared the 2016 Republican primary and helped him gain endless media attention. I kept my attitude. “I’m not going to Twitter. I’m going to stay true,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. Because he’s a nice guy, but I’m going to stay true.”
But public politeness is the latest development after a tough summer when Musk pulled out of an attempted acquisition of Twitter.
On his Truth social account, Trump claimed that Musk “may never have voted Republican,” before the Musk-led “probably vulgar fake account companies powered by fake accounts, denounced the possibility of “fake Twitter”. Mr Trump said Mr Musk had publicly identified himself as a Trump voter in conversations during his presidency.
Trump twisted the knife when Musk signaled to stop trying to buy the company. Trump claims Musk is a ‘bullshit artist’ and has ‘possibly $44 billion in debt on worthless things, so he needs to focus on getting out of Twitter chaos’ did.
As president, Mr Trump said Mr Musk had come to the White House and “went to me for help with all of his many subsidized projects, where the driverless cars crashed and went nowhere”. A rocket ship, without subsidies he was worthless.
Musk responded with faint praise and the occasional barbed insult.true society, he said financial times, was “essentially a right-wing echo chamber” that “may be called a trumpet”. As for the former president himself, he said, “I don’t hate the guy, but it’s about time Trump put on his hat and sail into the sunset. Mr. Musk tweeted.
However, not all Republicans share Trump’s rivalry with Musk. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and a potential Trump rival in 2024, began courting Musk when he tried to buy Twitter over the summer. DeSantis reached out to Musk through Joe Lonsdale, founder of the technology company Palantir.
“Hahaha, even Governor DeSantis called me with ideas on how to help you and was furious with that committee and said the public was rooting for you,” Ronsale texted Musk. Sent a message. “If you or someone on your side would like to chat with him, let me know.”
“Haha cool,” Musk replied.
