# 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:** 21
**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:** [September 14, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/401 "2022-09-14T23:07:58Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Nice to be sirred, though. > > Makes it sound her corgis are having their way with him. I DID type “sired” first, but realized I’d be getting into territory traditionally claimed by either horse breeders or vampire fans. (Of course Trump himself would probably have spelled it SURED or maybe SURRED. Or perhaps “She SURD me!”) ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/402 "2022-09-14T23:51:53Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > n all serious, I think Biden should invite him along with all the other ex-POTUSes. Be the bigger man, and reinforce the idea that protocol and tradition count. > > 65% that Trump declines the invite, but if he accepts, 95% that he embarrasses himself. 100% he declines … _…his passports are still with the FBI_ … 🤡 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/403 "2022-09-15T00:09:13Z")
His passports were returned. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/404 "2022-09-15T00:30:25Z")
Correct, they gave them back pretty quickly. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/405 "2022-09-15T19:53:10Z")
What you think he’s going to let facts get in the way of his excuse for not attending the funeral despite Trump being her favorite president of all time? People are saying that it was her dying wish that Trump give the eulogy at her funeral, But the Trump hating deep state had to put a stop to it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/406 "2022-09-26T21:27:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Chris Anderson, reporter for the _Sarasota Herald-Tribune_, decided to mosey on down to Truth Social headquarters today, see if he can get a quote… > > [https://twitter.com/ChrisA0213/status/1565024895083450373?s=20&t=SUxyv6gnZWQ5arCmsU0\_4A](https://twitter.com/ChrisA0213/status/1565024895083450373?s=20&t=SUxyv6gnZWQ5arCmsU0_4A) Found it! > **[Trump-linked SPAC changes address to UPS Store as investors pull more than...](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/26/trump-linked-spac-changes-address-to-ups-store-as-investments-pulled.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1664219372)** > > Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC looking to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, has changed its address to a UPS Store in Miami. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/407 "2022-09-28T02:05:20Z")
Well. At least now we know someone will be there during business hours. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/408 "2022-10-06T14:57:22Z")
Don’t really want to start a new thread, figured this one is ‘topic adjacent’ (if that’s a thing), so here it is: There’s a new right wing dating app, ‘The Right Stuff’, which is for, you got it, Trump supporters who got tired of being ghosted on Tinder, OKCupid, etc. Developed by Kaylan McAnany’s brother, TRS has, uh, hit a few snags: 1. It’s almost all men. 2. It’s ‘invite only’ which is seen as limiting potential users. And, also, an unmarketed bonus feature! 1. It asks if you participated in J6 Insurrection. If you click “yes”, _according to reviews_ (and therefore unsubstantiated, let’s be clear, though the question about J6 is widely reported as an actual thing), you get a call/visit by the FBI. > **[Right Wing Dating App Prompts Users to Share Details About January 6th](https://gizmodo.com/the-right-stuff-asks-for-details-about-january-6th-1849620087)** > > The Right Stuff has a 2.1 rating in the iOS store. Reviewers are complaining about the app's invite-only system, lack of women, and uh... visits from the FBI. The app is available on Apple but not Google, so no reviews for us Android peeps. Will note that a dating app that happens to ask what crimes you may have committed, “you know, just between you and the ladies”, does sound a little hinky. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/409 "2022-10-06T15:33:20Z")
Maybe we’ll get lucky and all the insurrectionists will weed themselves out. I still find it hilarious that they essentially doxxed themselves by taking so many pictures and so much video. As if they really thought they weren’t doing anything wrong. No, they were _proud_ of what they did. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/410 "2022-10-06T15:47:48Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > As if they really thought they weren’t doing anything wrong. No, they were _proud_ of what they did. For the record, almost all of them believed they weren’t doing anything wrong. Illegal, maybe (although the current defense is that they thought TFG would use the insurrection act, so not even illegal) but not Wrong. They were proud to document their place as part of the new American Reich! The fact that it backfired spectacularly makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just swallowed a kitten. /hijack over Back to Twuth Social, fellow self-absorbed asshat Musk has slapped TS in the face with his ongoing revolutions about twitter. > **[Trump SPAC shares slide after Elon Musk revives deal to buy Twitter](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/truth-social-spac-shares-slide-after-elon-musk-revives-deal-to-buy-twitter.html)** > > Shares of the SPAC set to take Trump Media public slid after Elon Musk revived deal to buy Twitter. So if EM buys twitter and unbans Trump, then no one needs TS of course. And we all know Trump would rather have the world-wide following on Twitter than the half-assed following on TS. And he and his goons almost certainly already pulled any of their money out during the initial investment inflation before reality kicked in… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/411 "2022-10-06T17:07:46Z")
Poor Devin Nunes will be out of a job. AWWWWW. I hope whoever replaced him in congress in competent and sensible enough that his former constituents can’t vote him back in. The man is almost as dumb as TFG. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/412 "2022-10-06T17:52:38Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > So if EM buys twitter and unbans Trump, then no one needs TS of course. > > And we all know Trump would rather have the world-wide following on Twitter than the half-assed following on TS. And he and his goons almost certainly already pulled any of their money out during the initial investment inflation before reality kicked in… Maybe this is 3d chess. 1. Buy Twitter 2. Unban TFG 3. TS goes bankrupt 4. Ban TFG 5. Profit! (Well, it’s only profit it you have a financial interest in TS going bankrupt, which _probably_ isn’t true.) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/413 "2022-10-06T18:00:44Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Maybe this is 3d chess. > > 1. Buy Twitter > 2. Unban TFG > 3. TS goes bankrupt > 4. Ban TFG > 5. Profit! (Well, it’s only profit it you have a financial interest in TS going bankrupt, which _probably_ isn’t true.) I’d replace this with 1. EM crows about the importance of freedom of speech. See how open I am? I am one of you hooo-man! Buy more of my stuff! 2. EM gets into the next major trouble (Tesla not meeting goals, SEC investigation, etc) and Trump has the audacity to say something about it. 3. Reban Trump ‘for the good of the American Public.’ while simultaneously drowning all talk of major trouble (5) in the outrage on this latest about face. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/414 "2022-10-06T19:04:36Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > …you get a call/visit by the FBI. But is the FBI agent hot? 😃 ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/415 "2022-10-06T19:57:47Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And we all know Trump would rather have the world-wide following on Twitter than the half-assed following on TS. And he and his goons almost certainly already pulled any of their money out during the initial investment inflation before reality kicked in… Unfortunately for the Ketchup flinging toddler its not quite that easy. First he signed some sort of non-competative agreement which restricts his ability to post on other platforms. From the [SEC filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312522161830/d265650ds1.htm) > President Trump is generally obligated to make any social media post on TruthSocial and may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours. As far as the Trump having already made all of his money in the early days of DWAC, (which I myself have repeatedly claimed) I looked into it further not quite so clear. I think that the idea was that Trump would get a whole lot of DWAC stock once it completed the acquisition of Trump Media group which hasn’t happened and may not ever happen. So Trump is way too late to have made money by getting out early since he hasn’t even gotten in. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/416 "2022-10-06T20:04:47Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > First he signed some sort of non-competative agreement which restricts his ability to post on other platforms. From the [SEC filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312522161830/d265650ds1.htm) > > > President Trump is generally obligated to make any social media post on TruthSocial and may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours. Yeah, but who’s going to enforce that obligation? It would be up to TS to sue him if he violated it. Anyone think that’s going to happen? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/417 "2022-10-06T20:07:25Z")
Given the number of lawsuits he’s invoked, he can’t possibly keep track of all of them. It is not completely implausible that Trump could accidentally end up suing himself. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/418 "2022-10-06T20:29:33Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Yeah, but who’s going to enforce that obligation? It would be up to TS to sue him if he violated it. Anyone think that’s going to happen? Doesn’t it have investors? Pretty much the only value that TS has is that it is the social media platform of trump. If he starts tweeting, that destroys what value TS has, and I’d think that investors would have standing. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/419 "2022-10-06T20:35:18Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Pretty much the only value that TS has is that it is the social media platform of trump. If he starts tweeting, that destroys what value TS has, and I’d think that investors would have standing. I’m sure they do have standing, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to sue either. How many people invested in TS because they thought it would make them a lot of money? Versus how many invested just to give Trump a new platform to make the libs cry? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-trumps-new-social-network-i-hear-crickets/960024/420 "2022-10-06T20:40:46Z")
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