Twitter has a new owner as Telsa CEO Elon Musk is buying the social media platform and taking it private. Twitter’s board of directors unanimously decided on Musk’s offer to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion.
Late Monday, #FreeSpeech was trending, and users were asking if Elon Musk would consider reinstating Trump’s account. The former president debunked that possibility when he spoke to Fox News.
“I am not going on Twitter; I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump said. “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.”
Trump owns TRUTH Social, a platform he launched in February and hired former California Rep. Devin Nunes as the company’s CEO. Trump told Fox News that he’s confident that TRUTH Socal can rival Twitter for membership and engagement.
“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Trump said.
Trump stated that he would not censor users on TRUTH no matter what their ideology was. “TRUTH is a platform for my voice and for my supporters,” Trump said. “But I want everybody to come over to TRUTH—conservatives, liberals, whatever.”
Big Tech banded together to permanently ban Trump from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat following the Jan. 6 riots. Trump and Musk are reportedly on good terms. Several years ago, Trump came to Musk’s defense after the Tesla CEO was charged with securities fraud.
Trump told Fox News he will begin “TRUTHing” over the next week. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter,” he added.
