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| Boilerpipe Text | Twitter has permanently suspended President
Donald Trump
, days before the end of his presidency, after he used his account to incite an insurrection on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
Trump’s account has been a singular source of power for him and a delivery vehicle for his worst impulses. It has hosted his lies, racism, threats, and calls for violence. He’s spread dangerous and false conspiracy theories, including the birther lie about President
Barack Obama
. He’s belittled women and stoked hatred for immigrants. That platform helped propel him to the highest office in the land, and bend the Republican Party to his will while there. As president, Trump frequently used his Twitter account to make presidential proclamations, announce firings, and berate staffers. His tweets
regularly came back to hurt
him in court.
For years, Twitter allowed it. It wasn’t until Trump began undermining the heart of the nation’s democracy, the electoral process, that it began applying tepid warnings at the bottom of his posts. It took a deadly attempted coup on the nation’s Capitol — which he executed by using Twitter to incite a mob to storm the halls of Congress — for the platform to finally ban him for good.
“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,” the company wrote in a
blog post
. “In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.”
The company also seemed to be spurred to action by perceived security threats. In the post, Twitter noted that “plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
On Friday evening, Trump put out a statement in which he attacked the decision:
“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long. I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely. STAY TUNED!”
It is hard to overstate the impact this has on Trump, who for years has used Twitter as FDR used the radio or Kennedy the television — his most powerful way to directly communicate with his followers, who numbered almost 90 million at the time of the ban. It also raises questions about how Trump will continue to hold sway over the national conversation, or how he will keep up the possibility of a 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump himself has acknowledged how pivotal his Twitter account is for his personal power. “Without the tweets, I wouldn’t be here,” he
told
the Financial Times in a 2017 interview.
Even for people who were not typically on Twitter, Trump’s tweets were a constant force in American life for the last four years, with his account blasted across news broadcasts and driving countless days of events both inside and outside of politics. One of the most enduring repeated quotes of the Trump era will likely be from the legions of Republican politicians pressed to answer for Trump’s account, sheepishly and surely falsely responding, “I did not see the tweet.”
Those were obviously lies — they saw the tweet, everyone saw the tweet — because Trump’s account had a direct impact not just over the national mood, but on people’s lives. Early in his administration, in July 2017, he announced, in
typical chaotic form
, a ban on transgender people from serving in the military.
“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the
United States
Government will not accept or allow......,” Trump tweeted at 12:55 p.m., not completing that extremely tense sentence by the commander in chief for about nine minutes.
"....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” he wrote at 1:04 p.m.
Those tweets were the basis of years of legal arguments. A federal judge ultimately determined them to be “capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified” in a
decision
suspending the ban.
Trump’s tweets have also heightened tensions with other foreign nations. In January 2018, he repeatedly taunted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Twitter, saying
“I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his.”
Kim responded by calling Trump
a senile old man
. Tensions continued to rise until the two leaders
held a summit in June 2018
.
Then, in 2020, after US troops assassinated Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani, and Americans feared that they were on the verge of nuclear war with the nation, Trump tweeted that Iran "
WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD
."
It was also just bizarre to see one of the most powerful people on earth regularly blast out typos, random capitalizations, and utter nonsense to the world. Once, around midnight in May 2017, the person with access to the US nuclear codes just tweeted out a string of nonsense letters: “
covfefe
.” It was never explained.
He also used his account to amplify once-fringe people and
online personalities
, occasionally going on a retweet binge of dozens of memes celebrating him and sometimes violently decrying the media or his political opponents. Last June, he retweeted a video that featured someone yelling “
white power
.”
Jason Miller, a Trump political adviser,
tweeted
Friday night that the move is “disgusting” and that “Big Tech” is “coming for you next.”
Twitter attributed its decision to ban Trump to two tweets, both tweeted Jan. 8:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
According to Twitter’s blog post explaining the ban
, the company interpreted those tweets in the context of the Jan. 6 riots. As such, the platform said that Trump’s tweets violated its
Glorification of Violence
policy.
Following the ban on his main account, Trump posted a series of tweets on the official @POTUS account that were almost immediately taken down and replaced with a notice that “This Tweet is unavailable.”
According to a Twitter spokesperson, “As we’ve said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules. We have taken steps to enforce this with regard to recent Tweets from the @POTUS account.”
Twitter later permanently suspended Trump's
campaign account
for for "ban evasion" after it tried to tweet the president's statement. Twitter said the entire account was banned because it's nongovernmental, unlike @POTUS, which was allowed to remain minus the offending tweets.
Following Wednesday's coup attempt, social media companies have been cracking down on extremist content that they allowed to fester for years. Trump is banned from Facebook until at least the end of his term. Trump has had an account on Gab — a social network known for being
friendlier to far-right extremists
than Twitter — since 2016. He has just under 500,000 followers there at the time of writing. In the minutes after Trump’s Twitter ban, Gab’s website went down.
Early Friday,
Twitter banned accounts
“that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” including former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump attorney Sidney Powell, and 8kun co-owner Ron Watkins.
Shortly before his inauguration in 2017, Trump
told the Sunday Times
why his @realdonaldtrump account was so powerful. “I can go bing bing bing,” he said, “and they put it on and as soon as I tweet it out — this morning on television, Fox, 'Donald Trump, we have breaking news.’” And he noted, “I think I’ll keep it.”
Now, on the eve of yet another inauguration, Twitter took it away. |
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# Twitter Has Kicked Donald Trump Off For Good
For years, Trump has used the social media site to spread hate and lies. Until today.
By
[ by Scott Lucas BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/scottlucas)
and
[ by Caroline Haskins BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/carolinehaskins1)
and
[ by Mat Honan BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/mathonan)
and
[ by Matt Berman BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/mattberman)
and
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[ by Tom Namako BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/tomnamako)
Updated on January 9, 2021 at 2:50 amPosted on January 8, 2021 at 11:24 pm
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Twitter
Trump's account has been permanently suspended.
Twitter has permanently suspended President [Donald Trump](https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/turmp-oval-office-gold-home-depot), days before the end of his presidency, after he used his account to incite an insurrection on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
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Trump’s account has been a singular source of power for him and a delivery vehicle for his worst impulses. It has hosted his lies, racism, threats, and calls for violence. He’s spread dangerous and false conspiracy theories, including the birther lie about President [Barack Obama](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelley_greene/white-house-rose-garden-through-history). He’s belittled women and stoked hatred for immigrants. That platform helped propel him to the highest office in the land, and bend the Republican Party to his will while there. As president, Trump frequently used his Twitter account to make presidential proclamations, announce firings, and berate staffers. His tweets [regularly came back to hurt](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/one-sure-thing-about-trumps-first-year-his-tweets-have-been) him in court.
For years, Twitter allowed it. It wasn’t until Trump began undermining the heart of the nation’s democracy, the electoral process, that it began applying tepid warnings at the bottom of his posts. It took a deadly attempted coup on the nation’s Capitol — which he executed by using Twitter to incite a mob to storm the halls of Congress — for the platform to finally ban him for good.
“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,” the company wrote in a [blog post](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html). “In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.”
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The company also seemed to be spurred to action by perceived security threats. In the post, Twitter noted that “plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
On Friday evening, Trump put out a statement in which he attacked the decision:
“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long. I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely. STAY TUNED!”
***
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It is hard to overstate the impact this has on Trump, who for years has used Twitter as FDR used the radio or Kennedy the television — his most powerful way to directly communicate with his followers, who numbered almost 90 million at the time of the ban. It also raises questions about how Trump will continue to hold sway over the national conversation, or how he will keep up the possibility of a 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump himself has acknowledged how pivotal his Twitter account is for his personal power. “Without the tweets, I wouldn’t be here,” he [told](https://www.ft.com/content/943e322a-178a-11e7-9c35-0dd2cb31823a) the Financial Times in a 2017 interview.
Even for people who were not typically on Twitter, Trump’s tweets were a constant force in American life for the last four years, with his account blasted across news broadcasts and driving countless days of events both inside and outside of politics. One of the most enduring repeated quotes of the Trump era will likely be from the legions of Republican politicians pressed to answer for Trump’s account, sheepishly and surely falsely responding, “I did not see the tweet.”
Those were obviously lies — they saw the tweet, everyone saw the tweet — because Trump’s account had a direct impact not just over the national mood, but on people’s lives. Early in his administration, in July 2017, he announced, in [typical chaotic form](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/coralewis/trump-transgender-military-service), a ban on transgender people from serving in the military.
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“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the [United States](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/travelers-share-favorite-customs-abroad-fs) Government will not accept or allow......,” Trump tweeted at 12:55 p.m., not completing that extremely tense sentence by the commander in chief for about nine minutes.
"....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” he wrote at 1:04 p.m.
Those tweets were the basis of years of legal arguments. A federal judge ultimately determined them to be “capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified” in a [decision](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/a-federal-judge-just-called-trumps-transgender-military) suspending the ban.
Trump’s tweets have also heightened tensions with other foreign nations. In January 2018, he repeatedly taunted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Twitter, saying [“I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his.”](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42549687) Kim responded by calling Trump [a senile old man](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-responds-to-trumps-rocket-man-comment-with-senile-dotard-jibe/2019/12/05/1dba85f6-176c-11ea-80d6-d0ca7007273f_story.html). Tensions continued to rise until the two leaders [held a summit in June 2018](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44435035).
Then, in 2020, after US troops assassinated Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani, and Americans feared that they were on the verge of nuclear war with the nation, Trump tweeted that Iran "[WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3ABeiOKrFtDp8J%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Frealdonaldtrump%2Fstatus%2F1213593975732527112%3Flang%3Den+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)."
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It was also just bizarre to see one of the most powerful people on earth regularly blast out typos, random capitalizations, and utter nonsense to the world. Once, around midnight in May 2017, the person with access to the US nuclear codes just tweeted out a string of nonsense letters: “[covfefe](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradesposito/donald-trump-tweeted-covfefe-and-people-are-very-confused).” It was never explained.
He also used his account to amplify once-fringe people and [online personalities](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/trumps-weird-day-in-tweets-includes-rting-a-man-who-made), occasionally going on a retweet binge of dozens of memes celebrating him and sometimes violently decrying the media or his political opponents. Last June, he retweeted a video that featured someone yelling “[white power](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/trump-tweet-video-florida-supporter-white-power).”
***
The move comes days after Twitter temporarily [suspended Trump's Twitter account](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scottlucas/twitter-suspends-trump) and threatened to suspend him permanently. Twitter had previously failed to take action against Trump, even when he broke rules that would have led to permanent suspension for ordinary people, because of its policy on [world leaders](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019.html). All of Trump’s thousands of tweets before being banned, documenting some of the most momentous and absurd periods of his presidency, are now gone from his account.
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Jason Miller, a Trump political adviser, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1347688429736370181) Friday night that the move is “disgusting” and that “Big Tech” is “coming for you next.”
Twitter attributed its decision to ban Trump to two tweets, both tweeted Jan. 8:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
[According to Twitter’s blog post explaining the ban](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html), the company interpreted those tweets in the context of the Jan. 6 riots. As such, the platform said that Trump’s tweets violated its [Glorification of Violence](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification-of-violence) policy.
Following the ban on his main account, Trump posted a series of tweets on the official @POTUS account that were almost immediately taken down and replaced with a notice that “This Tweet is unavailable.”
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According to a Twitter spokesperson, “As we’ve said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules. We have taken steps to enforce this with regard to recent Tweets from the @POTUS account.”
Twitter later permanently suspended Trump's [campaign account](https://twitter.com/TeamTrump) for for "ban evasion" after it tried to tweet the president's statement. Twitter said the entire account was banned because it's nongovernmental, unlike @POTUS, which was allowed to remain minus the offending tweets.
Following Wednesday's coup attempt, social media companies have been cracking down on extremist content that they allowed to fester for years. Trump is banned from Facebook until at least the end of his term. Trump has had an account on Gab — a social network known for being [friendlier to far-right extremists](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/new-social-network-gab-growing-fast-free-speech) than Twitter — since 2016. He has just under 500,000 followers there at the time of writing. In the minutes after Trump’s Twitter ban, Gab’s website went down.
Early Friday, [Twitter banned accounts](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/twitter-banned-qanon-accounts) “that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” including former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump attorney Sidney Powell, and 8kun co-owner Ron Watkins.
Shortly before his inauguration in 2017, Trump [told the Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-interview-brexit-britain-trade-deal-europe-queen-5m0bc2tns) why his @realdonaldtrump account was so powerful. “I can go bing bing bing,” he said, “and they put it on and as soon as I tweet it out — this morning on television, Fox, 'Donald Trump, we have breaking news.’” And he noted, “I think I’ll keep it.”
Now, on the eve of yet another inauguration, Twitter took it away.
## More on this
- [](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/twitter-banned-qanon-accounts?bfsource=relatedmanual)
[Twitter Has Banned Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, And Ron Watkins For Spreading QAnon Delusions](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/twitter-banned-qanon-accounts?bfsource=relatedmanual) Caroline Haskins · Jan. 8, 2021
- [](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-bans-lin-wood?bfsource=relatedmanual)
[Trump-Supporting Lawyer Lin Wood Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-bans-lin-wood?bfsource=relatedmanual) Ryan Mac · Jan. 7, 2021
- [](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scottlucas/twitter-suspends-trump?bfsource=relatedmanual)
[Twitter Threatened To Permanently Suspend Donald Trump](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scottlucas/twitter-suspends-trump?bfsource=relatedmanual) Scott Lucas · Jan. 7, 2021
## Topics in this article
- [Twitter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/topic/twitter)
- [Big Tech](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/topic/big-tech)
- [Donald Trump](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/topic/donald-trump)
- [ Scott Lucas BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/scottlucas)
- [ Caroline Haskins BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/carolinehaskins1)
- [ Mat Honan BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/mathonan)
- [ Matt Berman BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/mattberman)
- [ John Paczkowski Technology and Business Editor](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/johnpaczkowski)
- [ Tom Namako BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/tomnamako)
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Now it is important to not allow the media to quote tRump, Jr’s Tweets — don’t allow the press or media to elevate Jr or any other member of this mutant family. If you see, hear, read of a media outlet or website quoting tweets or other posts from any member of the tRump family...
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\-michael scott
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the amount of joy i just got from reading that is ridiculous-
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Took y’all long enough. We been saying he needed to go 😂
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FINALLY
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Jan 8, 202111:46 pm
His minions are going crazy saying “anyone who agrees is fascist” and they’re saying “censorship is real and freedom of speech is lost” Twitter also warned him for weeks about his Twitter bullshit which ultimately lead to this very decision. They have rules and policies and have every...
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Jan 8, 202111:50 pm
Agreed. There’s freedom of speech, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. You also agree to their rules when you sign up for social media platforms. Break the rules, and they can kick you off. Easy as that.
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Jan 8, 202111:31 pm
oh he’s gonna love this 😂
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Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
Too little, too late. Five people dead. This is his legacy.
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And over 300,000+ because of COVID.
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[Sondheimgeek](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sondheimgeek)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:02 am
That’s essentially the same as castrating him. Except this probably hurts him more since he actually got use out of Twitter.
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[beaverlips](https://www.buzzfeed.com/beaverlips)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:28 am
😂
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[Chinwe Uzoije](https://www.buzzfeed.com/chinweuzoije)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:37 pm
This took way too long to happen, but I’m still glad 🥳
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[Just A Nobody](https://www.buzzfeed.com/cap334)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
This is comical, he’s going to lose it 😂
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[w1tchqueen](https://www.buzzfeed.com/w1tchqueen)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:48 pm
The only downside is that we don’t get to watch it happen 😭😭🤣 worth it tho
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[2112YYZ](https://www.buzzfeed.com/2112yyz)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:52 am
I swear to god if I hear one more MAGA asshat say Twitter is violating Trumps first amendment rights my head may explode. No government agency, body or office kicked him off of Twitter. Apparently they don’t get that the amendment protects you from the government, not a private company....
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[ProbablyPooping](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pbbt)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:29 am
They are illiterate.
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[ralittle4](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ralittle4)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:49 am
Totally agree. Somehow they believe freedom of speech is unlimited. There are consequences for saying stupid shit especially if what you say causes people to get hurt and/or killed.
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[rachele48881e996](https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachele48881e996)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
Long overdue Twitter. Good on you I guess for finally doing it 🤷♀️ too little, too late if you ask me
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[rachele48881e996](https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachele48881e996)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:11 am
You’re exactly right - they’re trying to get on the good side of Democrats since they’re the ones coming into power. I should have added /s instead of just the shrug. They don’t deserve any sort of kudos.
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[Holycatsitsalex](https://www.buzzfeed.com/holycatsitsalex)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:50 pm
Kamala Harris said that this needed to happen during the primaries. LISTEN👏TO👏BLACK👏WOMEN👏
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[Holycatsitsalex](https://www.buzzfeed.com/holycatsitsalex)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:29 am
@krypton293, I don’t know if you’re referring to listening to Black women, or the removal of Trump’s Twitter, so I’ll address both just to be safe. First of all, that phrase means that white people who don’t stand up to racism are continuing to perpetuate white violence and white...
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[bunniesandme](https://www.buzzfeed.com/bunniesandme)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20219:05 am
krypton293, Educate yourself
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[patielaatman](https://www.buzzfeed.com/patielaatman)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
Took you four years to end this crap. Unreal. But thank you though.
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[karlynl3](https://www.buzzfeed.com/karlynl3)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:38 pm
About time
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[jcorey1513](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jcorey1513)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:02 am
If they’d actually done this earlier, MAYBE it would have done something positive. Glad they did, but so little so very very late, Twitter.
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[sillycrocodile](https://www.buzzfeed.com/yvebee13)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:10 am
They can’t just fucking ban politicians bc they don’t like what they type. If that were case there would be NO Twitter everybody would be getting banned left and right. They did the right thing at THE RIGHT TIME
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[gemininorthnode](https://www.buzzfeed.com/gemininorthnode)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:16 am
I agree with both, but possibly when he used Twitter to incite people to march on the Capitol, someone was supposed to catch that
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[mari :)](https://www.buzzfeed.com/maridab0mb)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:31 pm
AYOOOOO
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[alissaross11](https://www.buzzfeed.com/alissaross11)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:20 am
Thank fuck. Hopefully the FBI’s on Parler because that’s about to be a cluster.
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[Nothing Works](https://www.buzzfeed.com/nothingworks)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:27 am
I read Apple gave them 24 hours to institute moderators. I don’t know how true that is, but god I hope so.
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[beaverlips](https://www.buzzfeed.com/beaverlips)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:55 am
Nothing- it’s true\!
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[kittyrocket](https://www.buzzfeed.com/bakedcookie)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:52 am
Too little, too late. Sure, he can’t talk anymore, can’t make the situation worse, but it’s way past that now. We could have complete civil unrest just because these companies were too afraid to act. I understand freedom of speech, but if people are censored on TV, why aren’t they...
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[scarhill2000](https://www.buzzfeed.com/scarhill2000)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:47 am
About time. No POTUS should ever use Twitter. Of course, only a fool considers Trump a POTUS.
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[bruhmoment](https://www.buzzfeed.com/beepbeep03)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:33 pm
trump on insta: “I got fake ppl showin fake love to me💔💔😴😱😭”
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[Aliza Moon](https://www.buzzfeed.com/alizaamd)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:52 am
Can we all give a slow clap for Twitter and their amazing decision. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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[lexianarosr](https://www.buzzfeed.com/lexianarosr)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:37 pm
HELL YEAH!!! THE BRATY ASS DESERVED IT
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[sheriffbart1948](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheriffbart1948)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20215:31 am
This is so ironic. Trump recently vetoed the defense spending bill because it didn’t repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency act. Yet repealing that section would’ve made social media liable for content posted on their platforms. That would’ve forced social media companies...
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[Kristen](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kandidlykristen)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:29 am
Only about 4 years to late!\!
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[st4life](https://www.buzzfeed.com/seapens2095)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:48 am
only took them four years🙄😂 but better late than never!\!
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[greenapples](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andmargaritaschuyler)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:38 am
Take the L you ugly fucker 💋
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[Jada Walker](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jadawalker)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:44 pm
Can I get an AMEN
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5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:49 pm
AMEN \!
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[Liam](https://www.buzzfeed.com/haricotsdeliam)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20212:17 am
Your move, Facebook.
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[hollyr440aa9844](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hollyr440aa9844)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:00 am
🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH
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[childrenofthecornbread](https://www.buzzfeed.com/childrenofthecornbread)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:34 am
Alexa, play “little too late” by jojo
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[pepperopigeon](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pepperopigeon)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:40 am
He is losing 👏 his 👏 shit 👏 right now.
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[BoringAndUseless](https://www.buzzfeed.com/boringanduseless)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:00 am
Yay! It’s about time Bonus: Can’t wait to see how the angry Facebook/Parler Conservatives act about this :)
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[Ash](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ashtonstewart)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:57 pm
Finally, it only took him inciting a coup to do so
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[gemininorthnode](https://www.buzzfeed.com/gemininorthnode)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:16 am
It took the coup to actually happen, which is unacceptable. They should have shut him down when he mentioned ir
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[marissat41c77dec0](https://www.buzzfeed.com/marissat41c77dec0)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:36 pm
I wish this would’ve happened four years ago
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[samarc2](https://www.buzzfeed.com/samarc2)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:33 pm
LMAO THE CHEETO DESERVES IT 💀💀💀
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[Katzkat](https://www.buzzfeed.com/katzkat)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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[yeemo\_emo](https://www.buzzfeed.com/yeemo_emo)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:31 pm
It was about time y’all
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[lenar45ff56517](https://www.buzzfeed.com/lenar45ff56517)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20212:17 am
Thank god!!!!! I wish we could ban him from life.
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[Mallowmermaid](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mallowmermaid)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:38 am
I mean 5 people died because of the riot he incited in order to undermine our democracy and they only suspended him for a couple hours like why did it take them so long? He is literally a friggin criminal\!
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[redchris](https://www.buzzfeed.com/redchris)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:04 am
Not to mention the thousands who have passed away due to his disregard to proper Covid protocols and mis information he spread on there.
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[Cocomelon](https://www.buzzfeed.com/amnahasan)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20214:13 am
Not to mention the countless impacted by the muslim travel ban, the families separated at the border, the many many individuals traumatized by racist and bigoted behavior by his vile supporters who came out, chest blazing in the open...
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[lauren19](https://www.buzzfeed.com/lauren190)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:44 pm
Five years too late (y’all forget about his campaign.) Most of his base has already moved to Parler.
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[blablfufuhay](https://www.buzzfeed.com/blablfufuhay)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:41 pm
AS HE SHOULD. SERVE THE CONSEQUENCES AND REPAY THE ENTIRE NATION NOW.
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[kikis2](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kikis2)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
10 years later\!
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[AllisonGorman](https://www.buzzfeed.com/allisongorman)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:31 pm
Finally
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[Randomly Tandem](https://www.buzzfeed.com/randomlytandem)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:22 am
Maybe we can trick him into tasering himself in the nutsack
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[Brittany](https://www.buzzfeed.com/honeybee591)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:51 am
It’s about damn time!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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[cheese](https://www.buzzfeed.com/breeofficial)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:14 am
as they should.
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[DominaAlienis](https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominaalienis)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:55 pm
I yelled in pure happiness when I read this article... I ain’t even christian but THANK THE LORD JESUS
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[Kieber89](https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiebowker)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:45 pm
I have never seen anything so beautiful
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[hannahs35](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahs35)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
This is great, but it should have been done 3-4 years ago
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[spookyscaryskeletons](https://www.buzzfeed.com/spookyscaryskeletojs)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:33 pm
Took long enough LMAO
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[audriannacu](https://www.buzzfeed.com/audriannacu)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202110:12 am
Only took HIS WHOLE PRESIDENCY! Big tech companies need way more regulation, this is garbage. Too little too late. 🙄
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[chiefop42](https://www.buzzfeed.com/chiefop42)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20217:04 am
What’s funny is this moron will never know that if Twitter shut him the hell up earlier, he might have actually had a chance of being re-elected.
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[She 1](https://www.buzzfeed.com/brooksstella)
5 years ago
Jan 15, 20216:05 pm
So you see how God helped us out whilst we were to dumb to help ourselves . We can be grateful unto God for that 👏👏👏. Alleluia
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[liviolsen12](https://www.buzzfeed.com/liviolsen12)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20215:50 am
Thank goodness. Finally tRump is banned from something 👏🥳👍Next someone need to take away his phone and everyone around him should hide their phones. Watch out, Barron! Ur dad is going to steal ur phone and ask for ur login and password to ur tweeter/facebook/instagram accounts....
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[gemininorthnode](https://www.buzzfeed.com/gemininorthnode)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:15 am
At last! 🙏
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[Jazzap](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jazzap)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:00 am
TOO FUCKING LATE.
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[woonderwooman](https://www.buzzfeed.com/woonderwooman)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:44 pm
Finafuckingly\!
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[Ambam8813](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ambam8813)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:41 pm
They took long enough.
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[Gabywoofwoof](https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabywoofwoof)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:39 pm
Hahahaha!!!! This is perfect 👌🏽
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[essbee7277](https://www.buzzfeed.com/essbee7277)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:36 pm
About MF time.
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[butterfly girl](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andreaa720)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:35 pm
YUPPPPPP
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[mws394](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mws394)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
Twitter is the G.O.A.T 🙌🏽
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[alexpham688](https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexpham688)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
Sorry, but they 4 yrs too late. Too much hate and lies have already been spread.
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[Brisa Esteban](https://www.buzzfeed.com/brisaesteban)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
YEAH BABY THATS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR\!
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[vqmt2000](https://www.buzzfeed.com/shaeleejoy123)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
Finally
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[Sugar\&Spice](https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabtoaster35)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:13 am
Who is he going to rant to now?? 😆
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[EvilStefano](https://www.buzzfeed.com/evilstefano)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:07 am
About time \!
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[pixieiskall](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pixieiskall)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:15 am
It had up be done
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[Trinibadman](https://www.buzzfeed.com/trinibadman)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:14 am
This was long overdue.
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[sillycrocodile](https://www.buzzfeed.com/yvebee13)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:44 pm
Twitter just crashed lol right this second
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[kd92](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kd92)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:47 pm
Pelosi had a call with the joint chiefs where they assured here there are safeguards in place to avoid him impulsively launch an attack. We’re okay for now lol
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[kd92](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kd92)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:48 pm
Jesus the typos. You know what I mean.
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[redchris](https://www.buzzfeed.com/redchris)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:02 am
Bout time!!!!!!!!\!
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[Bubcatblues](https://www.buzzfeed.com/krismettlen)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:17 am
YAY. Better late than never.
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[isabel](https://www.buzzfeed.com/calliopetorres)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:57 pm
lololollololoLOLOLOLILOLOLOLLILILOLOLL
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[girlfieri828](https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephanied4b29e16e7)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:42 pm
I just hope he doesn’t launch us into nuclear war bc he’s having a tantrum lmao
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[frodofreaklotr](https://www.buzzfeed.com/frodofreaklotr)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:35 pm
Thoughts and prayers
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[aditson](https://www.buzzfeed.com/aditson)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
Did they suspend the @potus account too? If not he’ll just tweet from that one.
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[kd92](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kd92)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:46 pm
They didn’t, aides probably run that account but I imagine he’ll switch to that one. Then in January 20 he’ll lose access to that as well\!
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[Mandapanda](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ameadw)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:34 pm
FUCKING FINALLY
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[sam2403](https://www.buzzfeed.com/samracasey)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20214:42 am
This is so messed up. Trump wasn’t telling them to be violent, he told them to stop
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[sheriffbart1948](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheriffbart1948)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20215:33 am
Sure, he said stop. But in the same breath he kept riling them up and praising them.
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[akittensuddenlyappears](https://www.buzzfeed.com/akittensuddenlyappears)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20214:03 pm
Bullshit. Trump encouraged the traitors\!
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5 years ago
Jan 9, 20214:17 am
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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[anonymousfemale](https://www.buzzfeed.com/anonymousfemale)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20212:15 am
YESSSSSSSSSS we have waited so long but FINALLLYYYY
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[NuTellA](https://www.buzzfeed.com/luvly_grl)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:47 am
👏👏👏
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[jconway](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jconway)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:46 am
lol
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[southside\_serpent](https://www.buzzfeed.com/southside_serpent)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:20 am
THANK FUCKING GOD
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5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:40 pm
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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[Maria Frias](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mariafrias)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:36 pm
Finally,it should have been done a long time ago\!
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[PigPerson](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pigperson000)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
OOF HAHA FINALLY
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[coryell\_mcd](https://www.buzzfeed.com/coryellmcdonough)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
FINALLY only took 4 years to do so
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[bruhmoment](https://www.buzzfeed.com/beepbeep03)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
AYYYYYYY LMAOOOOO
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[caleb.](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sunspeaceofmins)
5 years ago
Jan 8, 202111:32 pm
LMFAOOOOOO
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[sukra728](https://www.buzzfeed.com/cheezenips)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20213:49 am
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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[Ella](https://www.buzzfeed.com/egdickerson70)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:46 am
This would never happen to Biden\!
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[sydneyxo](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydneyxo)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:54 am
because he’s not tweeting false things. trump is.
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[ReyRey](https://www.buzzfeed.com/dgreat42)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:11 am
🤣🤣🤣
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[Annie Crow](https://www.buzzfeed.com/anniecrow)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:33 am
I wonder what he’s gonna do now that he’s got all this spear time
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[Annie Crow](https://www.buzzfeed.com/anniecrow)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20211:58 am
\*spare I really need to proof read
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[paitay21](https://www.buzzfeed.com/paitay21)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 20214:38 am
He already tried tweeting from someone else’s account and they got banned too 😂😂
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[Bearbear](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mesybear)
5 years ago
Jan 9, 202112:31 am
Hahahahaahahahahahahahha
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| Readable Markdown | Twitter has permanently suspended President [Donald Trump](https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/turmp-oval-office-gold-home-depot), days before the end of his presidency, after he used his account to incite an insurrection on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
Trump’s account has been a singular source of power for him and a delivery vehicle for his worst impulses. It has hosted his lies, racism, threats, and calls for violence. He’s spread dangerous and false conspiracy theories, including the birther lie about President [Barack Obama](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelley_greene/white-house-rose-garden-through-history). He’s belittled women and stoked hatred for immigrants. That platform helped propel him to the highest office in the land, and bend the Republican Party to his will while there. As president, Trump frequently used his Twitter account to make presidential proclamations, announce firings, and berate staffers. His tweets [regularly came back to hurt](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/one-sure-thing-about-trumps-first-year-his-tweets-have-been) him in court.
For years, Twitter allowed it. It wasn’t until Trump began undermining the heart of the nation’s democracy, the electoral process, that it began applying tepid warnings at the bottom of his posts. It took a deadly attempted coup on the nation’s Capitol — which he executed by using Twitter to incite a mob to storm the halls of Congress — for the platform to finally ban him for good.
“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,” the company wrote in a [blog post](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html). “In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.”
The company also seemed to be spurred to action by perceived security threats. In the post, Twitter noted that “plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
On Friday evening, Trump put out a statement in which he attacked the decision:
“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long. I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely. STAY TUNED!”
It is hard to overstate the impact this has on Trump, who for years has used Twitter as FDR used the radio or Kennedy the television — his most powerful way to directly communicate with his followers, who numbered almost 90 million at the time of the ban. It also raises questions about how Trump will continue to hold sway over the national conversation, or how he will keep up the possibility of a 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump himself has acknowledged how pivotal his Twitter account is for his personal power. “Without the tweets, I wouldn’t be here,” he [told](https://www.ft.com/content/943e322a-178a-11e7-9c35-0dd2cb31823a) the Financial Times in a 2017 interview.
Even for people who were not typically on Twitter, Trump’s tweets were a constant force in American life for the last four years, with his account blasted across news broadcasts and driving countless days of events both inside and outside of politics. One of the most enduring repeated quotes of the Trump era will likely be from the legions of Republican politicians pressed to answer for Trump’s account, sheepishly and surely falsely responding, “I did not see the tweet.”
Those were obviously lies — they saw the tweet, everyone saw the tweet — because Trump’s account had a direct impact not just over the national mood, but on people’s lives. Early in his administration, in July 2017, he announced, in [typical chaotic form](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/coralewis/trump-transgender-military-service), a ban on transgender people from serving in the military.
“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the [United States](https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/travelers-share-favorite-customs-abroad-fs) Government will not accept or allow......,” Trump tweeted at 12:55 p.m., not completing that extremely tense sentence by the commander in chief for about nine minutes.
"....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” he wrote at 1:04 p.m.
Those tweets were the basis of years of legal arguments. A federal judge ultimately determined them to be “capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified” in a [decision](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/a-federal-judge-just-called-trumps-transgender-military) suspending the ban.
Trump’s tweets have also heightened tensions with other foreign nations. In January 2018, he repeatedly taunted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Twitter, saying [“I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his.”](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42549687) Kim responded by calling Trump [a senile old man](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-responds-to-trumps-rocket-man-comment-with-senile-dotard-jibe/2019/12/05/1dba85f6-176c-11ea-80d6-d0ca7007273f_story.html). Tensions continued to rise until the two leaders [held a summit in June 2018](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44435035).
Then, in 2020, after US troops assassinated Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani, and Americans feared that they were on the verge of nuclear war with the nation, Trump tweeted that Iran "[WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3ABeiOKrFtDp8J%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Frealdonaldtrump%2Fstatus%2F1213593975732527112%3Flang%3Den+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)."
It was also just bizarre to see one of the most powerful people on earth regularly blast out typos, random capitalizations, and utter nonsense to the world. Once, around midnight in May 2017, the person with access to the US nuclear codes just tweeted out a string of nonsense letters: “[covfefe](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradesposito/donald-trump-tweeted-covfefe-and-people-are-very-confused).” It was never explained.
He also used his account to amplify once-fringe people and [online personalities](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/trumps-weird-day-in-tweets-includes-rting-a-man-who-made), occasionally going on a retweet binge of dozens of memes celebrating him and sometimes violently decrying the media or his political opponents. Last June, he retweeted a video that featured someone yelling “[white power](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/trump-tweet-video-florida-supporter-white-power).”
Jason Miller, a Trump political adviser, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1347688429736370181) Friday night that the move is “disgusting” and that “Big Tech” is “coming for you next.”
Twitter attributed its decision to ban Trump to two tweets, both tweeted Jan. 8:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
[According to Twitter’s blog post explaining the ban](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html), the company interpreted those tweets in the context of the Jan. 6 riots. As such, the platform said that Trump’s tweets violated its [Glorification of Violence](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification-of-violence) policy.
Following the ban on his main account, Trump posted a series of tweets on the official @POTUS account that were almost immediately taken down and replaced with a notice that “This Tweet is unavailable.”
According to a Twitter spokesperson, “As we’ve said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules. We have taken steps to enforce this with regard to recent Tweets from the @POTUS account.”
Twitter later permanently suspended Trump's [campaign account](https://twitter.com/TeamTrump) for for "ban evasion" after it tried to tweet the president's statement. Twitter said the entire account was banned because it's nongovernmental, unlike @POTUS, which was allowed to remain minus the offending tweets.
Following Wednesday's coup attempt, social media companies have been cracking down on extremist content that they allowed to fester for years. Trump is banned from Facebook until at least the end of his term. Trump has had an account on Gab — a social network known for being [friendlier to far-right extremists](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/new-social-network-gab-growing-fast-free-speech) than Twitter — since 2016. He has just under 500,000 followers there at the time of writing. In the minutes after Trump’s Twitter ban, Gab’s website went down.
Early Friday, [Twitter banned accounts](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/twitter-banned-qanon-accounts) “that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” including former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump attorney Sidney Powell, and 8kun co-owner Ron Watkins.
Shortly before his inauguration in 2017, Trump [told the Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-interview-brexit-britain-trade-deal-europe-queen-5m0bc2tns) why his @realdonaldtrump account was so powerful. “I can go bing bing bing,” he said, “and they put it on and as soon as I tweet it out — this morning on television, Fox, 'Donald Trump, we have breaking news.’” And he noted, “I think I’ll keep it.”
Now, on the eve of yet another inauguration, Twitter took it away. |
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