Guest after guest at the Kennedy Center Honors told reporters of the spirit of bipartisanship at the ceremony, what with the presence of President Joe Biden, Chief Justice John Roberts and congressional leaders of both parties.
20.11.2022 - 12:17 / deadline.com
Following Elon Musk’s decision to reinstate Donald Trump on Twitter – after putting the decision to a controversial vote on the platform – it seems the former president isn’t interested.
“I don’t see any reason for it,” Trump said via video when pressed on the subject by a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting, as reported by Reuters.
Instead, Trump said, he would stay with his new platform Truth Social, developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group – where, of course, his posts and engagement draw money for him, rather than Musk.
He said Truth Social was doing has better user engagement than Twitter and was doing “phenomenally well”, and he added that Twitter’s problems included bots and fake accounts.
He said the problems it faced were “incredible”.
Musk said yesterday he would be reinstating the former president’s account after putting the decision to a vote,
Trump’s Twitter account had 88million followers at the time of its suspension in January 2021. The new account had accumulated nearly 100,000 followers by late Saturday evening, although the account had disappeared again by Sunday morning.
There are plenty of fake Donald Trumps on the platform, although none with the blue tick which caused such confusion when Musk introduced a pay-to-play scheme last week and inspired thousands of people to impersonate public figures – a move he quickly reversed.
Guest after guest at the Kennedy Center Honors told reporters of the spirit of bipartisanship at the ceremony, what with the presence of President Joe Biden, Chief Justice John Roberts and congressional leaders of both parties.
There was much talk in the Kennedy Center Honors after-party about one of the standout moments from the three-hour long ceremony on Sunday: Sacha Baron Cohen’s return as Borat as part of the tribute to U2.
Shortly after Donald Trump became president of the United States in January 2017, he began stacking federal courts with conservative judges. Realizing what was at stake, the team behind HBO Documentary Films’ abortion documentary The Janes began crafting a story to remind the audience what happened 50 years ago when women didn’t have access to safe and legal abortions.
President Joe Biden weighed in on the rise in antisemitism, tweeting out a call for political leaders to condemn hate speech.
OK, this feud is just getting funny now.
Kanye West took to Twitter on Thanksgiving night to share a series of increasingly-bizarre campaign videos for the forthcoming 2024 presidential election.
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Elton John hasn’t re-written his song ‘Levon’ to be an ode to the goodness of Donald Trump. You know, if you were wondering. You might have been, if you’re hard of hearing and were watching the recent livestream, on Disney+ earlier this week, of the final show on the US leg of John’s farewell tour at Dodgers Stadium in LA.Trump’s name appeared in the subtitles for the show at least twice during the live broadcast.
Donald Trump has lost a bid to deny a Democratic-led House committee the right to obtain his tax returns. After a lengthy legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of the former president’s financial documents to the House Ways & Means Committee.
Well, he’s back. Kind of. Elon Musk did exactly what we all assumed he would do when he took over Twitter and fired all the people in charge of ethics and safety and whatnot. He reinstated the account of Donald Trump.
Disney+ viewers who tuned in to watch Elton John’s live broadcast of his farewell concert were surprised when Donald Trump’s name came up in the closed captions.
Elon Musk said on Saturday that Donald Trump will be reinstated to Twitter after holding an online vote of the platform’s users.
One of CBS’s West Coast subsidiaries has paused its postings and interactions on Twitter, in light of ongoing uncertainty over the future of the social media platform.
Who could resist an invitation like this: Twitter owner Elon Musk says comic Kathy Griffin can return to Twitter — but he misspelled her name as “Kathie.”
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