Trump Creates TRUTH, a New App to Take on the Radical Left

      Former President Donald Trump has created a new app that he plans will take on the media that has been increasingly dominated by the radical left and is available for preorder on Apple’s App Store, where it is scheduled for release in 2022.

      In a press release, Trump’s app is described as “America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.”

      Trump is serving as the chairman of the new media company, which is called Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), and which has merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp to result in a publicly listed company “in a deal that values the business at $875 million, but that has a potentially valuation of up to $1.7 billion, based on the performance of the company’s stock” a TMTG press release said.    

      “I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said in a statement. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced. This is unacceptable.”

      Trump, other Republican lawmakers, and more politically-conservative media outlets, who have often accused Big Tech companies of allowing censorship of ideas and stories that harm the left and bias against conservative ideas, have called for social media platforms to reconsider their laws and practices regarding their airing of “free speech.”

      Trump has been planning and considering different options to get his voice back online: a voice that had 88 million followers, ever since not just Twitter, but Facebook, YouTube, and other social media outlets permanently him from posting on its site on Jan. 8, after he was suspected to have aroused the incitement of his supporters to storm the US Capitol on Jan. 6. 

     “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the social media giant tweeted after Trump used his platform, shortly after the storming of the Capitol, to condemn Vice President Mike Pence for failing to stop Congress’s approval of results of the 2020 election.

     Since Trump has left office, he has kept a low-profile and even broke with presidential protocol by failing to show up at Joe Biden’s inauguration in January.

    Trump’s political action committee, “Save America,” however, has continued to issue press releases, and earlier this month he held a rally in Iowa, which is an important state whose support often greatly influences presidential nominations, which Trump is rumored to be again seeking for the 2024 election. 

      One new social media platform that sprung up this year to appeal to conservatives was Gettr, which was set up by Jason Miller, who was one of Trump’s senior advisers during his presidency.

    In a statement that congratulated Trump on his new media venture, Miller said, “Now Facebook and Twitter will lose even more market shares.”

(Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)