Mr. Trump’s Twitter account was his most frequently used channel of communication before and during his tumultuous presidency. He used it regularly to announce hires and firings, to tease new policies, and to direct his millions of followers to harass critics and enemies, real or perceived. That all ended when a mob of his supporters, whom he had called to Capitol Hill with a tweet promising a “wild” protest on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day Congress was to certify his loss to Joe Biden — ransacked his headquarters. legislative branch of America. The next day, Facebook banned him from its platform for inciting violence. Twitter followed two days later. Overall, it remains blocked from most social media sites, although Facebook has said it will review the ban in 2023. In an interview with documentarian Alex Holder, Trump said it was a “shame” that the two most popular social networks pushed him after he had used their platforms to incite riots and lamented that leaders from authoritarian states t abused the sites with him way to keep access to them. The interview was one of three conducted by Mr Holder for a documentary series, Unprecedent, which aired on Discovery+ on Sunday. “That’s what they do, these people are thugs,” Trump said of the people who decided to ban him from Twitter and Facebook. “They enable other people who are scary people. I’m not a horrible person,” he continued, adding that he “had a big voice … that had hundreds of millions of people listening.”
