Former President Donald Trump on Monday declined to confirm reports that he is about to make a comeback on social media, but said that in the meantime, he is enjoying the press releases by email more than he likes them. your old Twitter feed.
“We have a lot of options and something is going to happen to social media if I want it to happen,” Trump said in an interview with Greg Kelly on Newsmax.
Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News on Sunday that “I think we will see President Trump returning to social media in about two or three months here with his own platform.”
But Trump, who previously tweeted headlines 24 hours a day, insisted to Kelly that he really liked his break from social media after Twitter and Facebook, left him deplorable after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. He said the companies did him “a favor”.
“I have tremendous options because you know that I probably had 200 – more than 200 million people when you add it all up, and that’s a lot. This is a record and suddenly they decide, there are a lot of people, and then they cut it off, ”said Trump.
“I’m doing it, I think and you just alluded to it, I make press releases. And frankly, they are more elegant than tweeting, as the phrase goes, they are actually much more elegant and the word is spreading. “
Trump said emailing statements “takes less time. It is probably a better way and everyone is waiting for it. “
“You know, it works for me. For other people, it wouldn’t work because a press release doesn’t mean much, ”added Trump.
“But when I release – you know when I post a press release, you see what happens. Everyone is waiting and I think I’m getting better and more coverage with this than with tweeting. And the tweet gets you in trouble because you are retweeting people and you find out that the retweets were not so good because the person, if you didn’t do a survey, that you are retweeting is not the best. So, you get a little bit of trouble from time to time. But no, I like that more than Twitter. In fact, they did us a favor, this is better. “
Trump was asked if his next foray into social media would be with the help of Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Paypal and one of Facebook’s first investors, who supported his 2016 campaign. He seemed to dismiss it.
“Well, Peter is a great guy. He’s been a supporter and he’s a brilliant man, you know, from Silicon Valley, essentially. And he did an excellent job. But no, I have tremendous options, ”said Trump.