Donald Trump returns to X / Twitter to post his mug shot

Donald Trump has made his return to X, the social community previously often known as Twitter.

On Thursday, the previous president turned himself in on the Fulton County jail on over a dozen expenses associated to his alleged efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election outcomes. Over the final 5 months, Trump has confronted prison expenses in 4 separate instances, however the newest reserving was the primary and solely time his mugshot was taken. He took the chance to make his first post on X since January eighth, 2021.

That was the day he was completely banned from the platform by its former administration, with the corporate citing a “risk of further incitement of violence” after his supporters stormed the US capitol.

Since then, Trump has began his personal social media platform, Truth Social, and Twitter has rebranded after Elon Musk bought the corporate, stating that he plans to flip it into an “everything app” known as X.

In January of this yr, Rolling Stone reported that Trump didn’t need to renew his exclusivity contract with Truth Social that was set to expire in June. Even nonetheless, he first posted the picture of his mug shot on Truth Social earlier Thursday night. Before that, he appeared in a video interview with Tucker Carlson on X that was timed to the primary GOP 2024 presidential debate. (The former Fox News host took his present to the platform in May after leaving the community.)

On November 18th, 2022, Musk ran a ballot asking Twitter customers if he ought to reinstate Trump. The subsequent day, he declared that he would accomplish that primarily based on the ballot’s outcomes. (There had been round 15 million responses, with 51.8 % saying sure and 48.2 % saying no.) The former president implied there was no want for him to come again on the time due to how effectively Truth Social was doing and since he sees “a lot of problems on Twitter,” in accordance to Bloomberg. He did, nevertheless, inform his supporters to vote sure within the ballot.

Before reinstating Trump’s account final yr, Musk additionally introduced again the accounts belonging to the conservative parody outlet The Babylon Bee, comic Kathy Griffin, and creator Jordan Peterson.

Trump was first indicted in April for alleged hush cash funds he made to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels. After leaving the Manhattan courthouse the place he was arrested on the time, Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign launched a t-shirt that includes a faux mugshot, since an actual one was not taken. Hours after the Fulton County jail launched his actual mugshot Thursday, the marketing campaign quickly pulled together an official t-shirt design with the caption “NEVER SURRENDER!”