# Trumps \[Former\] New Social Media Platform **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 22, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396 "2021-03-22T03:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CrazyFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@CrazyFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyFoo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/1 "2021-03-22T03:35:13Z")
Will he be able to lie his ass off on his own platform, or will there be some laws in place to muzzle him ? Suppose he starts going on about how the election was stolen and gets everyone all lathered up; will there be any consequences for lying ? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/2 "2021-03-22T03:57:03Z")
I hope they call it Twump. (Twitter+Trump) I’m sure there’ll be rules against “fake news” which means they’ll censor anything that Trump doesn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/3 "2021-03-22T04:06:45Z")
Nah, I think Trash is a better term: TRump ASsHole. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/4 "2021-03-22T11:33:02Z")
Anything he raises on his new platform, will easily be taken up and soundly trashed on Twitter and he won’t be able to rebut it. That’s got to work in everyone’s favour, I should think. But I can’t help thinking this new platform will be ready a couple of weeks after that healthcare plan he’s been promising, by next week, for over four years! HaHa! ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/5 "2021-03-22T11:40:06Z")
He’ll stand up a platform, he’ll say everything he’s said all along, it will be hacked mercilessly. Lather Rinse Repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/6 "2021-03-22T13:13:04Z")
Trump will convince other people to put up the money to get this venture started (if it gets started at all). He’ll pay himself a licensing fee for the use of the Trump name, another fee for consulting, and whatever else he can get away with. Those checks will be good. Then the site will go bankrupt and the investors will be screwed. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/7 "2021-03-22T14:01:02Z")
Someone on Twitter said it should be called “Mein Space”. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/8 "2021-03-22T14:09:22Z")
Whatever he sets up the password will be a variation of “you’re fired”. He will get hacked even before the platform goes life. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/9 "2021-03-22T14:14:19Z")
Nah, he’ll probably just reuse the ‘MAGA2020!’ password he used for his twitter account. Well, updated to ‘MAGA2024!’. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/10 "2021-03-22T14:32:57Z")
The only possible consequence would be suits for defamation, as Dominion is using against the people who lied about them. Those are expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to prove. Otherwise, no. What possible law do you think is on what books that makes it a crime to lie? What court hear crimes against the truth? You Honor, I charge this man with a 609, a 443, and a 1362. For the jurors, that’s a fib, a fabrication, and a prevarication in the second degree. The penalties are fines up to a dollar and 30 days without pizza. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/11 "2021-03-22T14:49:03Z")
Big win for the FBI, will make tracking white nationalist terrorists much easier. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/12 "2021-03-22T18:12:35Z")
He’s gotta get someone to host it. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/13 "2021-03-22T18:24:51Z")
I’m not convinced he’s really entrepreneurial enough to come up with a platform on his own. His multi-million dollar air hooptie is sitting in a fucking NYC area hangar collecting dust. Methinks he’s what we thought he was all along: a fake billionaire, who can’t do shit businesswise but knows how to scam people and perpetually falls/fails forward doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/14 "2021-03-22T20:55:43Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The penalties are fines up to a dollar and 30 days without pizza. The latter is clearly a violation of the 8th amendment. You can’t deny a person pizza. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/15 "2021-03-22T21:17:03Z")
My thought is that I doubt anyone that has the skills to set up a ‘Trump Social Media Platform’ is also smart enough to know that they will likely not be paid. On the other hand, someone might do it for the lulz, and insert LOTS, AND LOTS of Easter eggs and auto-corrects. And as someone else said, It would be hacked constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/16 "2021-03-22T21:17:47Z")
An interesting insight. > **[Not Even Trump Fans Care About Trump’s Social Network](https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9g99/not-even-trump-fans-care-about-trumps-social-network?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=210322)** > > The former president's advisor Jason Miller said Sunday that Trump would have his own platform in a few months. In two weeks, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/17 "2021-03-22T21:37:40Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Someone on Twitter said it should be called “Mein Space”. Someone else said it would be called “Assbook.” But as Hari\_Seldon posted: Trump needs to find some one willing to host such a site. Yet to attract subscribers, he will have to permit 8-chan levels of threatening posts-and-memes against the usual targets (Hillary, Nancy, etc.) These two needs are mutually exclusive. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/18 "2021-03-22T21:46:46Z")
Pizza is nature’s most perfect food. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/19 "2021-03-22T22:07:50Z")
I usually don’t advocate for a like button on the SDMB but I miss having one right now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396/20 "2021-03-22T22:26:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > What possible law do you think is on what books that makes it a crime to lie? What court hear crimes against the truth? You Honor, I charge this man with a 609, a 443, and a 1362. For the jurors, that’s a fib, a fabrication, and a prevarication in the second degree. It’s a crime to lie to a gov’t agent or law officer, of course. Otherwise, there’s no law against lying that I know of – But – lying isn’t protected speech either. From a mid-1980’s case that went to the Supreme Court (sorry, no cite, I’m citing this from memory of the news at the time): - Gay man applies for job on an oil rig in the Gulf. - They ask him if he is gay. - He denies it. - He gets the job. - Somehow, the management then learns he’s gay. - They fire him. - Ex-employee sues employer for wrongful termination. - Company says they didn’t fire him for being gay, they fired him for lying at his interview. - Case makes its way up to the Supreme Court. - Court finds in favor of the employer, saying that employee has no constitutionally protected right to lie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-former-new-social-media-platform/938396.md?page=2)