Jason Miller: Trump to unveil his own social media platform that will ‘completely redefine the game’

Trump’s grand return to social media: Longtime advisor reveals former president will unveil his own platform in coming months that will ‘completely redefine the game’

  • Jason Miller, a longtime Trump aide, says the former president will return to social media with ‘his own platform’ that will ‘redefine the game’
  • He predicted Sunday morning that the new platform will attract ‘tens of millions’ 
  • ‘We’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform,’ Miller told Fox News on Sunday 
  • Twitter banned Trump from its platform following the January 6 Capitol attack

Donald Trump will return to social media in the next few months with a platform of his own, longtime advisor Jason Miller revealed Sunday.

‘I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform – and this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media,’ Miller said during an interview with Fox News ‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz on Sunday morning.

He added that the new platform will ‘completely redefine the game’ of social media.

Miller, a principal at SHW Partners and spokesperson for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, predicted the former president will attract ‘tens of millions’ of new users to his online presence.

Trump was a prolific Twitter user before and during his presidency, but the social media platform shuttered his account and permanently banned him from posting after Jan. 6, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. 

Former Trump advisor Jason Miller said Sunday morning that Donald Trump will return to social media with ‘his own platform’ in the next few months

‘After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,’ Twitter said in a January 8 statement.

Twitter executives said in February that the ban would stand.

‘When you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform,’ Twitter CFO Ned Segal told CNBC on February 10. ‘He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.’ 

Since being booted from his favorite social media site to use and criticize, Trump started releasing statements both from his America First political action committee and from the Office of the 45th President.

Those statements, which are more long-form but reminiscent of Trump’s Twitter activity, have been lauded as more presidential than his tweets ever were by supporters and critics.

Twitter suspended Trump’s account indefinitely shortly before Joe Biden was inaugurated, claiming his posts were inciting violence and spreading false information.

Police have testified that at least 800 people entered the Capitol after a smaller number forced their way in, seeking to block Congress from confirming the November presidential election victory of Joe Biden, The Washington Post reported.

More than 300 people have been charged in connection with the riot, with charges expected for at least 100 more in what authorities describe as one of the largest investigations in American history. 

Authorities have said 139 police officers were assaulted by Trump supporters wielding sledgehammers, baseball bats, hockey sticks, crutches and flagpoles. More than 40 people are accused of assaulting police officers.

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died a day after the riot. Acting Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman said the investigation of Sicknick’s death remains active and is being led by D.C. police and the FBI.

Trump was accused of inciting the violence during a speech to a crowd on the National Mall shortly before the rioting began. Trump exhorted his supporters to march on Congress, where politicians were meeting to his Democratic opponent’s victory.

‘If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore,’ Trump said in the speech. The quote was used in Trump’s impeachment trial resulting from the riot, in which Democrats accused the former president of using the 70-minute speech as a call to insurrection.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted on Feb. 13 to acquit Trump on a charge of inciting the riot.

Trump nonetheless became the only U.S. president to be impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate acquitted him in 2020 on a charge of attempting to pressure Ukraine into smearing Biden during the presidential campaign.

‘This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country,’ Trump’s said in a statement following his second impeachment stemming from the riot.