It’s tough keeping up with all the conservative-friendly apps. There’s Parler and Rumble, of course, but don’t forget (or maybe do) about The Right Stuff, which shares the same name as a white supremacist website, and TRUTH Social, Donald Trump’s long-threatened social media platform. After months of missed deadlines, shady financial issues, porn bots, and SNL jokes (“Donald Trump announced the launch of his own social media network that he’s calling TRUTH Social, but most people know it by its original name: the National Sex Offender Registry”), TRUTH is launching on March 31. So, if your anti-vaxxer aunt doesn’t post anything on Facebook that day, you’ll know why.
Former-president Trump is “permanently suspended” from Twitter, but his Kendall Roy-esque son, Donald Trump Jr., is still tweeting all bangers, all the time. His latest: “Time for some Truth!!!” along with a screenshot of the first post on his dad’s billion-dollar vanity project. It reads, “Get Ready! Your favorite president will see you soon.” Bad tweet.
Time for some Truth!!! pic.twitter.com/jvyteDb5gW
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 15, 2022
The replies were amusingly savage. “Truth Social is going to fail in spectacular fashion and I’m going to absolutely love it,” reads one tweet, while another wrote, “Trump’s first post on his Twitter clone site was written to people not on the site. This was written to be a screenshot post on Twitter. This will be such a glorious dumpster fire.” Here’s more:
Running to Twitter to post screenshots of Truth Social because it isn’t launched yet is a fail.
Marketing-wise, they wasted Trump’s first post. pic.twitter.com/KlfJvEqHtd
— PatriotTakes
(@patriottakes) February 16, 2022
If someone posts on a social media platform but nobody sees it…. is it really a media platform…. https://t.co/2S0cCjIOtO
— Jon (@joninsocal) February 16, 2022
Lol, day old post with 49 likes. Sad.
pic.twitter.com/A6FxVumjcO
— WaterBluSky (@MsMariaT) February 15, 2022
He ain’t nobody’s favorite president https://t.co/gUw1Hv4Rs2
— Robert (@damnitsrob) February 15, 2022
Your family is finally going to sit for depositions? Awesome. https://t.co/jNqL75aDKp
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 16, 2022
I give it 6 months https://t.co/liv7fyLp4Y
— Drivenprogressive (@drivenprogres) February 16, 2022
Creating a social media platform where all you do is lie but call it ‘Truth Social’ is quite honestly the Trumpiest thing Trump has done. https://t.co/JYkJqj9RpF
— IDontEvenKnowWhatToPutHere (@CatsForTheCup) February 16, 2022
Surely the tenth time in the past five years is the charm for far-right social media microblogging startups. GETTR only launched six months ago and I guess they’ve already given up on it and are dropping a direct competitor? LMAO. https://t.co/a1Dg91D8qp
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Rani Timekey Baker, Noise Channel $400C-$400F (@destroyed4com4t) February 16, 2022