Former US President and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, reactivated his profile on social network X on Monday, from which he was suspended in 2021 following the assault on the Capitol by his supporters.
Trump, who has more than 88 million followers on X, made this decision less than three months before the presidential elections on November 5, in which he will face the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.
“Are you better off now than when I was president? Our economy is in tatters. Our border is erased. We are a nation in decline,” he said in a message that has accumulated tens of thousands of interactions.
“Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again! Make America SAFE again! Make America GREAT again!” the former president added.
In addition to this message, Trump shared several posts of his election video ads.
X, then known as Twitter, decided to suspend Trump’s account in January 2021, amid political tension arising from the 2020 presidential election and the assault on the Capitol by his supporters.
His last message, on January 8, 2021, was: “To all those who have asked, I will not be attending (Joe Biden’s) inauguration on January 20th.”
In late 2022, after acquiring the social network for $44 billion, billionaire Elon Musk ordered Trump’s account to be restored, but the former president, who had created his own social network, Truth Social, chose to leave it inactive.
He had only posted one message since then. It was in August 2023, when he shared his mugshot from the criminal case against him in the state of Georgia with the text: “Election interference. Never give up.”
The date chosen for the return coincides with a talk that Trump and Musk will have on Monday night at X, the latter having repeatedly expressed his ideological closeness to the former president.
Washington / EFE
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2024-08-16 01:22:05
