For the very first time since posting his infamous mugshot, Trump has come back to the medium that helped him completely sidestep the media gatekeepers in 2016.
Before today, the last time Trump posted on the social media account that led the charge on cancelling him on that fateful day in January 2021 was August 24th, 2023. It’s been almost exactly a year since his last post.
It was an open question whether Trump would ever return to the new-and-improved Elon Musk version of Twitter-turned-X, or whether he would restrict his social media to his proprietary social media network.
Trump’s fans were longing for those infamous ‘mean tweets’.
Today, that question has been asked and answered.
Trump is back.
As of about noon today, with a massive no-holds-barred interview between Elon and Trump imminent, Trump resumed posting on Elon’s social media platform.
What did he have to say?
As of 7pm Eastern, about an hour before that interview goes live, here’s what he’s said so far.
It began with what is now his ‘pinned tweet’. It’s a campaign ad, one of his better ones:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024
His first text-based tweet