'Your favourite president will see you soon': Donald Trump writes first post on his new social media platform 'Truth Social'

A year after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook, former US President Donald Trump has announced that he will soon be returning to a new social media platform bankrolled by him. This was announced by his son Donald Trump Junior on Tuesday who posted a screenshot on twitter of his father’s first post on the new social media named Truth social, captioning “Time for some Truth!!!”

“Get ready! Your favorite president will see you soon,” Trump wrote on Truth social. Truth Social is wholly owned by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). The screenshot posted on Twitter by Trump Junior already has over 56,000 likes and made the former president a topic of discussion again. The social media is expected to be launched on iOS on 21st February, as per media reports.  
 

The social media is quite identical to twitter. The posts written by the handles will be known as “Truths” and retweets will be referred to as “rethruths”. Former US representative Devin Nunes will be the CEO of the platform. He has promised a safe, family friendly platform. "We want to be very family-friendly, we want this to be a very safe place, and we are focused on making sure any illegal content is not on the site," Nunes said in an interview with Fox Business.

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President Trump announced last year in October that he would be launching his own platform which would challenge the monopoly of the big tech (reference to Twitter and Facebook). “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favourite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable… I am excited to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soon. TMTG was founded with a mission to give a voice to all. I’m excited to soon begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech,” Trump had said in a statement.

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In January 2021 after the Capitol Hills riots, social media giants Twitter and Facebook had banned Trump from their platforms for his alleged role in inciting the clashes. “fter close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter had said in a statement after the ban.