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Trump is suddenly back on Twitter
By Peter Kafka,
3 days ago
Donald Trump has posted on Twitter only once since Elon Musk reinstated him on the service in November 2022. Now it looks like he's doubled that number.
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Twitter barred Donald Trump in 2021. Elon Musk reinstated him in 2022. But he's posted only once since then.
Trump is now running a Twitter ad that looks like it comes from his account.
Of note: Musk is scheduled to conduct an interview Monday night with Trump on Twitter/X.
Welcome back to Twitter, Donald Trump.
Sort of welcome back, I guess: The former president — who was barred from Twitter in 2021, then reinstated by Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, in 2022, and who has tweeted just once since then — has posted from his account again.
But this time he's paying to do it.
Or, more accurately: Trump's campaign seems to be using Trump's account to post an ad on the service, which Musk has renamed "X." This was posted early Monday morning and has more than 14 million views at the time I'm typing this:
This is the first time I've seen a post from Trump's account on Twitter since July 2023, when he posted his mugshot . Prior to and since that, he's confined his trademark rants to Truth Social, the Twitter clone he launched in February 2022. (After we published this story, Trump's account tweeted again: this time, posting a campaign-style video that wasn't labeled as an ad.)
It's unclear whether that agreement has changed. I've asked Twitter and Trump's campaign for comment.
What I can say is that even though the posts look like Donald Trump posts, they also look nothing like a "real" Donald Trump post — the seat-of-the-pants, sometimes random, often hard-to-parse, and frequently inflammatory stuff he used to do on Twitter all the time. And the stuff he's still doing on Truth Social now — like on Sunday, when he accused Kamala Harris' campaign of somehow "faking" crowds at her events using AI .
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