BREAKING: Donald Trump Has Returned To Twitter!

On Thursday evening, leading Republican candidate and 45th President Donald Trump returned to X, formerly, Twitter for the first time in over two and a half years. For his first post back to the platform, Trump put out a picture of his mugshot along with with the caption, "ELECTION INTERFERENCE NEVER SURRENDER! DONALDJTRUMP.COM".

President Trump was removed from Twitter folloowing the events of January 6, 2021. Following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, the billionaire unsuspended President Trump's account, however, up until today the president refused to use his account and instead used Truth Social.

Trump's return to Twitter, now X, has been long awaited and rumors circulated for months predicting that he would return to the platform in order to reach the tens of millions of Americans that use the social media network. In addition to being reinstated on Twitter earlier this year, Trump was also unsuspended on Facebook and Instagram.
 

As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, Trump’s Instagram account was reinstated in early February after Meta unbanned his accounts after two years following the events of January 6th, 2021.

At the time of the initial ban, Meta released a press release giving the public an explanation of the company’s reasoning after it removed the 45th president on January 7, 2021. 

The company set a two-year hiatus until an oversight board could assess whether or not the former president should be allowed back on the platforms to reach his hundreds of millions of followers. 

Trump's return to Facebook, Instagram, and now Twitter will prove to be a boon for his campaign and his popularity as the indictments ramp up. His choice to post his mugshot as his first post back to the platform reenforces the historic nature of the (mug)shot that will be heard around the world.

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