Former US President Donald Trump published the first posts on his recovered accounts on Facebook and YouTube this Friday (17), more than two years after he was banned from the platforms for his involvement in the U.S. Capitol uprising. United States.
“I’M BACK” (“I’M BACK”), Trump captioned a 12-second video of him appearing to speak after winning the 2016 presidential election: “Sorry to keep you waiting. It’s a complicated case”.
The 76-year-old Republican, who announced he will seek to return to the White House in the next election in 2024, had been unable to post to his 34 million followers on Facebook and 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube.
Platforms suspended Trump days after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when mobs of supporters of the former president raided Congress in Washington to try to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Trump has been suspended for posting riot-inciting content, the platforms said. YouTube announced the Republican politician’s reinstatement on Friday, two months after Facebook unlocked his account.
On Twitter, the social network on which he has 87 million followers, Trump’s account was also blocked after the riots. In response, the former president created the Truth Social platform, on which he is followed by fewer than five million people.
Trump has yet to post any content on Instagram or Twitter since his reintegration into major social media.
Source: DN
