# What about Trump's new social network? I hear crickets **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 23, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024 "2022-02-23T22:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/181 "2022-04-05T01:14:03Z")
After the cons have already stuffed their pockets, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/182 "2022-04-05T02:33:56Z")
DWAC stock price was at $92.90 On February 22 the day after Truth Social debuted, rose to a peak of $97.54 a week later Currently its at $56.94, a drop of about 42% in 6 weeks. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/183 "2022-04-05T03:17:45Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The only real loss there is Billy Boozer. I’d hate to have to strike that beautiful name off the payroll. If he’s really a Boozer, maybe explains why the app works so badly? If I were a Boozer, I’d probably produce shitty work too. I suppose Billy Boozer’s preferred libation is none other than Billy Beer? [![](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/duvet-cover/images/artworkimages/medium/3/billy-beer-from-billy-carter-douglas-sacha.jpg?&targetx=141&targety=0&imagewidth=562&imageheight=844&modelwidth=844&modelheight=844&backgroundcolor=A1A9A3&orientation=0&producttype=duvetcover-queen) ](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/duvet-cover/images/artworkimages/medium/3/billy-beer-from-billy-carter-douglas-sacha.jpg?&targetx=141&targety=0&imagewidth=562&imageheight=844&modelwidth=844&modelheight=844&backgroundcolor=A1A9A3&orientation=0&producttype=duvetcover-queen) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/184 "2022-04-05T04:21:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If he’s really a Boozer, maybe explains why the app works so badly? If he wasn’t a boozer when he started working for on this shit show he probably is one now. I know I would be. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/185 "2022-04-05T04:22:40Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > If he wasn’t a boozer when he started working for on this shit show he probably is one now. I know I would be.   What do you suppose these guys are going put on their résumé? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/186 "2022-04-05T04:44:01Z")
Probably lie and say they were in prison for the last few months. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/187 "2022-04-05T04:45:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Probably lie and say they were in prison for the last few months.   Yes, of course. As always in cases like this, it will definitely look better for them. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/188 "2022-04-05T07:43:04Z")
He’s in a Gordian knot though. Because while what you say is true, there is no way Trump’s ego could cope with the on-line equivalent of walking out on to a rally stage in front of an obviously 80% empty hall. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/189 "2022-04-05T09:40:31Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > He’s in a Gordian knot though. Because while what you say is true, there is no way Trump’s ego could cope with the on-line equivalent of walking out on to a rally stage in front of an obviously 80% empty hall. . . . as happened about two years ago at his farce of a rally in Tulsa, where hardly anybody showed up. > **[Don't call it a comeback: Trump's Tulsa rally was just another sad farce |...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats)** > > Campaign officials should be ready for firings and fury after a pathetic event made worse by wretched attempted excuses ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/190 "2022-04-05T13:38:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Much has been written and said about “Truth Social,” and 99% of that reporting is completely wrong, as it talks about the site as if it was ever intended to be a real thing. It was not. We are in late-stage capitalism where entrepreneurs no longer think about how to build better mousetraps. Instead, they spend their waking hours coming up with schemes where they can make loads of money just talking about how they MIGHT make a mouse trap — or maybe not. > > Such is the case with Trump and “Truth Social.” The key thing to understand is that Trump has already gotten paid and has no more intention of building a real social network than he had of operating a viable airline or running a legitimate university. He never intended “Truth Social” to be a real site, so all of you who are fretting about how Devin Nunes could possibly manage the site can put your minds at ease. It was just another scam, and Nunes is the perfect guy for that — an ultra-obedient lapdog who could face the prison risk instead of Trump. > **[Late Stage Capitalism: Trump is on course to pocket the "Truth Social" money](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/4/2090055/-Late-Stage-Capitalism-Trump-has-already-pocketed-the-Truth-Social-money?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Much has been written and said about “Truth Social,” and 99% of that reporting is completely wrong, as it talks about the site as if it was ever intended to be a real thing. It was not. We are in late-stage capitalism where entrepreneurs no longer... ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/191 "2022-04-05T13:40:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What do you suppose these guys are going put on their résumé? “Defended American Democracy by doing a real shit job”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/192 "2022-04-05T15:09:18Z")
So you’re saying we have a “Springtime for Hitler” situation here? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/193 "2022-04-05T15:11:41Z")
Brutal. Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark. LOL ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/194 "2022-04-05T15:22:27Z")
SNL lit Truth Social up pretty hard in their cold open on Saturday night, with the Fox and Friends crew talking about how it made their phones extremely hot, and burned one of their children, and how it’s the “only app with a smell” (presumably of burning electronics). ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/195 "2022-04-05T16:26:22Z")
At work, he was mixing vodka and… [![](https://i.imgur.com/5g8mOiV.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/5g8mOiV.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/196 "2022-04-05T17:21:13Z")
> [@bump](#): > > and how it’s the “only app with a smell” That made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/197 "2022-04-05T23:08:49Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > After the cons have already stuffed their pockets, of course. I bet Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn’t in on the con. She was only down 7% in November. Awwwwww [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5uCICuW4vkM/maxresdefault.jpg "Marjorie Taylor Greene Loses THOUSANDS After Investing In Trump's Social Media Company") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uCICuW4vkM) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/198 "2022-04-06T05:32:57Z")
A couple of journos from the WaPo [throwing subtle shade](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/05/trump-truth-social-media-failure/). Read or at least skim the whole article, for the setup, then make sure you read the last line. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/199 "2022-04-06T13:13:06Z")
Subtle shade, indeed. Tried to read or at least skim. Could not. Definitely could not read the last line. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/200 "2022-04-06T14:57:32Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Tried to read or at least skim. Could not. Definitely could not read the last line. Paywalled. I couldn’t read any of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024.md?page=11)