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Donald Trump is preparing to make a major announcement about how he intends to protect the First Amendment rights of Americans.
In an email sent to supporters on Saturday, the 45th President of the United States said he would make the announcement at a rally that evening.
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will make a significant announcement about his efforts to protect Americans’ First Amendment rights in Bedminster, NJ, on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, at 11:00AM EDT.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021, at 11:00AM EDT
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, delivers remarks concerning the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
Participants include:
Linda McMahon, Chair, America First Policy Institute
Brooke Rollins, President and CEO, America First Policy Institute
Venue:
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
900 Lamington Road
Bedminster, NJ 07921
It is unlikely that the announcement will involve his plans for 2024, but you neve know with Trump. But what it could be is the announcement everyone has been waiting for, the launch of his own social media platform.
If he does announce a new social media platform it will come days after the announcement of another new social media platform by Jason Miller, Trump’s former spokesman.
Donald Trump’s former spokesman has officially launched his new social media platform and it is likely to get a ton of buzz.
The platform, known as GETTR, launched on Thursday and its mission statement reads that it is a place that is “fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas,” Politico reported.
Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform. A person familiar described the site as similar to Twitter.
Trump’s involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it, though his proximity to Miller suggests that this may be the latest attempt to get him back in the churn of social media
The former president has been looking for alternative ways to engage with his base online after having been booted off Twitter and suspended from Facebook after encouraging the Capitol rioters on January 6. And his prior effort to engage online—through the launch of a professional blog—ended quickly amid widespread ridicule and poor readership.
GETTR is one of the highest-profile projects in a larger ecosystem of pro-MAGA tech and social media platforms that have blossomed on the right, largely fueled by a sense that Big Tech is attempting to silence conservative and pro-Trump ideology from being disseminated online. In recent months, it was widely reported that the Trump team was searching for a platform on which to re-establish his online presence, either by buying a company outright and rebranding it as his exclusive platform, or becoming a featured draw.
An App Store description of the app calls it a “non-bias social network for people all over the world.”
“The app first went live on the Google and Apple app stores in mid-June and was most recently updated Wednesday. It’s been downloaded over one thousand times on each, drawing positive reviews from users,” Politico said.
And it also comes after a report that the new site could launch on July 4, The Daily Mail reported.
The July 4 date is only tentative, and it could change but that is said to be the current target.
“These things have a habit of slipping but wouldn’t that be a symbolic date to get back online,” a former Trump administration official said.
‘We believe that of all the platforms that have come out, we are the right platform for the president,’ CloutHub chief executive Jeff Brain said the Wall Street Journal, who was first to report the target date.
