NEW YORK (CNN Business) – Former US President Donald Trump will return to social media – but this time with his own social network, a Trump spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday.
Jason Miller, the advisor and spokesperson for the Trump campaign for 2020, told Howard Kurtz on Fox News’ MediaBuzz that Trump “will probably return to social media in two or three months.”
Miller added that Trump’s return will be through his “private platform” that will attract “tens of millions” of new users and “completely redefine the game.”
“This is something that I think will be the most popular in social media. It will completely redefine the game, and everyone will be waiting and watching to see what President Trump does, but it will be his own platform,” Miller said.
Miller indicated, during his appearance on Fox News, that many companies have communicated with the former US president and are in talks with teams about the new platform.
“This new platform is going to be big. Everyone wants it and it will bring millions – tens of millions – to this platform,” Miller said Sunday.
The announcement comes after Trump’s accounts on Twitter and other social media platforms, such as Facebook, were permanently suspended after he incited riots in Congress on January 6 – hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the building, killing five people.
After Trump was banned on Twitter, Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, intervened when other aides tried to persuade Trump to appear on marginal social media platforms, such as Parler and Gap.
