Twitter announced the permanent suspension of President Trump’s account on Friday, after months of signaling his tweets with warnings – and days after the company said it violated its policies.
Quick Facts
- Trump’s account was blocked by tweets he posted regarding the Trump rally on Wednesday that led to the Capitol riot
- Your account was temporarily suspended after the deadly uproar
The platform blocked Trump from his account for the first time this week. The social media company dismissed a series of tweets related to the violent riot in the Capitol on Wednesday as inflammatory.
“After careful analysis of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them – specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter – we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence,” says the company wrote in a blog post.
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