{"id":1457475,"date":"2022-04-29T07:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457475"},"modified":"2022-04-29T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:14:40","slug":"im-back-covfefe-trump-returns-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-back-covfefe-trump-returns-to-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019M BACK! #COVFEFE\u201d \u2013 Trump Returns to Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-back-covfefe-trump-returns-to-social-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Former President Trump joined his own TRUTH Social on Thursday, posting on a social media platform for the first time in more than a year with a throwback to his now-infamous 2017 typo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-tweets-covfefe-causes-twitter-frenzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;covfefe.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;I\u2019M BACK! #COVFEFE,&#8221; Trump posted on TRUTH Social Thursday afternoon with a photo of himself in front of his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-tweets-covfefe-causes-twitter-frenzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;covfefe&#8221; <\/a>was referring to one of his deleted tweets in 2017 in which he decried the media\u2019s coverage of his administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-will-not-return-to-twitter-even-if-elon-musk-purchases-platform-will-begin-using-his-truth-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP WILL NOT RETURN TO TWITTER EVEN AS ELON MUSK PURCHASES PLATFORM, WILL BEGIN USING HIS OWN TRUTH SOCIAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the constant negative press covfefe,&#8221; Trump wrote in a tweet on May 30, 2017 that received more than 100,000 retweets and 100,000 likes before being deleted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/6b891e82-IMG_2272.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"\" I \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      &#8220;I\u2019M BACK! #COVFEFE,&#8221; Trump posted on TRUTH Social. (@realDonaldTrump post on TRUTH Social)\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump, on Monday, told Fox News he would not return to Twitter, even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/live-news\/stock-market-today-4-25-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Elon Musk<\/u><\/a> purchased the social media company and reinstates his account. Trump said he would, instead, use his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, on Monday afternoon, announced it agreed to be acquired by Musk for $44 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,&#8221; Trump told Fox News. &#8220;I hope Elon buys Twitter because he\u2019ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump told Fox News on Monday he would begin &#8220;TRUTHing&#8221; this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Media &#038; Technology Group social media platform, TRUTH Social, formally launched last month and has been up and running under its brand-new cloud services for four days, after having beta-tested since February. Former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is the company\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re taking in millions of people, and what we\u2019re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640\/320\/AP20347634678656-e1608219709194.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"T.W. Shannon, the former co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, said the former president told him to \" go out there and win \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      T.W. Shannon, the former co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, said the former president told him to &#8220;go out there and win.&#8221; (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-tweets-covfefe-causes-twitter-frenzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FLASHBACK: TRUMP TWEETS &#8216;COVFEFE,&#8217; CAUSES TWITTER FRENZY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Twitter deemed a number of his tweets connected to the violent protests as inflammatory and warned of &#8220;the risk of further incitement of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether a Musk-owned Twitter could be competition to TRUTH, Trump said that he feels it would be a positive development in the social media space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is good. We want liberty and justice and fairness in our country, and the more we can have open, the better,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But no, I don\u2019t view that as a competition for what I am doing.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/Elon-Musk-Twitter.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo is displayed on a smartphone with Elon Musk&#039;s official Twitter profile.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo is displayed on a smartphone with Elon Musk&#8217;s official Twitter profile.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Rafael Henrique\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is a platform for my voice. TRUTH is a platform for my voice and for my supporters,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But I want everybody to come over to TRUTH\u2014conservatives, liberals, whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former president said Twitter &#8220;became very boring because conservatives were thrown off or got off the platform when I left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It became boring because there was no interaction,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The interaction on TRUTH has been amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We want everybody.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TRUTH Social will be a voice for me,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And that\u2019s something nobody else can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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