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Lasher

(27,638 posts)
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 05:27 PM Jun 2021

Trump shuts down his blog after less than a month

Source: CNN

New York (CNN Business)The blog page that former President Donald Trump launched less than one month ago, after his team suggested he'd be launching a major new social platform, has been permanently shuttered.

Jason Miller, a senior aide to Trump, told CNBC that the page "will not be returning."
Miller confirmed to CNN that the page had been scrubbed.

"It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on," Miller said.

Those who attempt to visit the page are now greeted with a web form asking for their contact information to receive updates through email or text message.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/media/trump-blog-shut-down/index.html



"Broader efforts we have been working on."
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Trump shuts down his blog after less than a month (Original Post) Lasher Jun 2021 OP
LOL at a Trump blog. What was the "content"? Stupid memes Wingus Dingus Jun 2021 #1
Faux twitter Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #20
Thanks for summing it up-- Wingus Dingus Jun 2021 #23
I'm sure he has a lot to do making ready for his big comeback in August. Demnation Jun 2021 #2
Broader grifts we have been working on... Thomas Hurt Jun 2021 #3
A blog takes work. trump doesn't like work. brush Jun 2021 #4
Blog didn't really mean blog. Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #21
Apparently that was too much work too. And trump probably didn't even write those. brush Jun 2021 #26
"asking for their contact information to receive ..." PSPS Jun 2021 #5
Lazy, loser, failure. Mc Mike Jun 2021 #6
And now add blogging to his long list of failures.... Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 2021 #7
HAH!!!!!!! groundloop Jun 2021 #12
Only two mistakes made: Trump thought he could write and his followers could read. ZonkerHarris Jun 2021 #8
Twitter was as much as he and they could cope with. JenniferJuniper Jun 2021 #11
"I meant to do that". hahaha JohnnyRingo Jun 2021 #9
He doesn't want to pay somebody robbob Jun 2021 #10
More likely, he owes somebody for the website and won't pay them. Lasher Jun 2021 #13
Time for trump, his clan, & all his acolytes to fade from existence into their dark abyss of torment NBachers Jun 2021 #14
Trump shuts down his blog, frustrated by its low readership. BlueWavePsych Jun 2021 #15
I agree: I think it was money-related. People don't trust him with loans anymore. C Moon Jun 2021 #16
I'm guessing the 30-day free trial with his web host ended. nattyice Jun 2021 #17
The site is still there - Ms. Toad Jun 2021 #22
ROFLMAO Trump thought MAGAts could read! bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #18
It will be interesting to see what happens when this idiot is no longer 'useful' to Putin. olddad65 Jun 2021 #19
He should just hand it over to Fox entertainment. IsItJustMe Jun 2021 #24
LOL LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2021 #25
He's too fucking xxqqqzme Jun 2021 #27
There was a blog? NurseJackie Jun 2021 #28
The public has basically told Trump to save his breadth bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #29
Maybe he should try running a different line of business? Aussie105 Jun 2021 #30

Wingus Dingus

(8,059 posts)
1. LOL at a Trump blog. What was the "content"? Stupid memes
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 05:33 PM
Jun 2021

with pics of Biden and Nancy Pelosi? General trolling of the libs? Election whining? Plenty of RW sites do that already.

Ms. Toad

(34,092 posts)
20. Faux twitter
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 10:10 PM
Jun 2021

with a single user, and no means for anyone to interact with his faux tweets, other than to transfer them to facebook, twitter, or one other social media platform..

Functionally, it served solely as a means to spin out his faux tweets to a series of rapidly cancelled twitter accounts.

brush

(53,871 posts)
4. A blog takes work. trump doesn't like work.
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 06:04 PM
Jun 2021

It's easy to tweet a few words or retweet something. That's right up trump's line but that's gone, thus the blog. But that's gone now too, which is also right up trump's line. Another failure.

Any other effort they're working on won't require trump to work, write, think, oven just to sign off on someone else's work.

All he wants is to make sure he has a suitable Tee time.




Ms. Toad

(34,092 posts)
21. Blog didn't really mean blog.
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 10:12 PM
Jun 2021

Just a series of faux tweets on a private platform with a single faux tweeter.

PSPS

(13,614 posts)
5. "asking for their contact information to receive ..."
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 06:04 PM
Jun 2021

... fundraising messages with the usual tiny "make my donation automatically every month" checkbox already checked.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,983 posts)
7. And now add blogging to his long list of failures....
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 06:43 PM
Jun 2021

Dipshit Donnie can't compose a coherent sentence, much less a blog.

robbob

(3,538 posts)
10. He doesn't want to pay somebody
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 07:17 PM
Jun 2021

to write it for him. Probably the first functionally illiterate pResident in the history of the USA.

Lasher

(27,638 posts)
13. More likely, he owes somebody for the website and won't pay them.
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 07:22 PM
Jun 2021

Pretty much the same thing, I guess.

NBachers

(17,139 posts)
14. Time for trump, his clan, & all his acolytes to fade from existence into their dark abyss of torment
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 07:30 PM
Jun 2021

BlueWavePsych

(2,640 posts)
15. Trump shuts down his blog, frustrated by its low readership.
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 07:41 PM
Jun 2021
Mr. Trump had become frustrated after hearing from friends that the site was getting little traffic and making him look small and irrelevant, according to a person familiar with his thinking.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html

C Moon

(12,221 posts)
16. I agree: I think it was money-related. People don't trust him with loans anymore.
Wed Jun 2, 2021, 08:54 PM
Jun 2021

"I'll pay you next month."
"No. Pay now, or we shut it down."

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
27. He's too fucking
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 04:43 AM
Jun 2021

lazy to have a blog. He doesn't read so he won't be able to write anything legible or coherent.

bucolic_frolic

(43,295 posts)
29. The public has basically told Trump to save his breadth
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 07:36 AM
Jun 2021

Yes, I know I put a 'd' in it. Think on it again.

Aussie105

(5,436 posts)
30. Maybe he should try running a different line of business?
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 08:39 AM
Jun 2021

The wind has gone out of firing up the Deplorables.

Something else, perhaps, to take up his time? Selling steaks, running an airline, casino?

Oh . . . never mind.

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