Donald Trump may soon be tweeting again, a confidante of the former president has revealed.
Advisers to his 2024 presidential campaign have been debating what his first job should be, according to NBC News.
Trump was banned from Twitter after the Capitol riots – but was allowed to re-use the platform after Elon Musk took over.
Tear gas is released into a crowd of rioters during the attack on the Capitol in January 2021
One Republican, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation with Mr. Trump about returning to the platform, said: “Trump may come back to Twitter. It’s just a matter of when and how.
“He’s been talking about it for weeks, but Trump is speaking for Trump, so it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll do or say or when he’ll say it.”
The former president also told Fox News he was in talks with Meta about a possible return to Facebook and Instagram.
“We’re talking to them and we’ll see what happens,” he said.
“It would help them a lot if they brought us back, I agree. But they need us more than we need them.”
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Facebook said Trump’s ban will be reviewed two years after it was implemented in January 2021, with a review date of January 7, 2023.
In imposing the ban, the social media giant said Trump would only be allowed to return to the platform if the “risk to public safety” had subsided.
In a letter to Meta on Tuesday, Trump’s campaign wrote, “We believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook greatly distorts and inhibits public discourse.”
Trump’s campaign has not threatened to file a lawsuit, as some sources close to him believe he will.
Instead, it talked about the importance of free speech and asked Meta to hold a “meeting to discuss President Trump’s swift restoration of the platform.”
A Meta spokesman declined to comment on Trump, saying only that the company “will announce a decision in the coming weeks based on the process we have in place.”
A Trump adviser who spoke to NBC News said his campaign believes Facebook will reinstate him.
Last month, House Democrats, including Adam Schiff of California, told Facebook to keep Trump away from the platform.
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Trump’s plans to expand his social media footprint also illustrate the low reach of Truth Social — a platform he created to reach supporters.
The former US president has just over 4.8 million followers on the platform, compared with nearly 88 million on Twitter and 34 million on Facebook.
Facebook was crucial to Trump’s success in 2016, when his campaign used computer programming to tailor ads based on audience data — known as microtargeting — which helped him raise money from small donors and beat Democrats Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
An internal Facebook report found that Trump ran 5.9 million different versions of the ad, compared with 66,000 for Clinton, according to Bloomberg.