A spokesperson for Donald Trump says his blog, used to share statements after he was banned on Facebook and Twitter, has been permanently shut down
it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Floridadeplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott : A Trump adviser told The Washington Post that the former president shut down his blog because he didn't like that this platform was being mocked and had so few readers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : RIP Trump's blog 5/4/21 -6/2/21 https://twitter.com/... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : New: Trump was upset that people were mocking his low-traffic blog. So he ordered it be put out of its misery at the tender age of 29 days. He still wants to build a social media platform, though, which is like a blog but 500x more complicated https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... w/ @jdawsey1 Aaron Rupar / @atrupar : Trump's blog lasted about two Scaramuccis https://www.cnbc.com/... Marc E. Elias / @marceelias : No Joke: @DemocracyDocket had higher readership and engagement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Andrea Kuszewski / @andreakuszewski : Life comes at you fast https://twitter.com/... Kayla Gogarty / @ohhkaygo : I didn't realize this wasn't common knowledge among journalists, but Facebook NEVER took down Trump's page.They only stopped him from creating new posts. In fact, his posts have been earning engagement this whole time because users were still able to react, comment,and share them https://twitter.com/... Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08 : Good reminder of how important @Facebook and @Twitter were to Trump's political success. The question now is whether Zuckerberg will once again cave to right-wing pressure and let him back on the platform. https://twitter.com/... Akilah Hughes / @akilahobviously : Deplatforming works. https://twitter.com/... Natali Carman / @natalicarman : Trump blog page shuts down for good. Seems like his 30 day trial ran out #TrumpsLastBlog https://twitter.com/... @jdcocchiarella : In the span of a few months, Donald Trump lost the presidency, the Senate, his Twitter, his Facebook and Instagram, and his blog. I think he finally got tired of winning. Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore : More than anything, a reflection of how critical the scaling mechanism of mainstream social platforms — and their intertwining with legacy media — were to Trump's megaphone. https://twitter.com/... Jon Cryer / @mrjoncryer : Once again I am grateful that he has the attention span of toddler. https://twitter.com/... Scott Monty / @scottmonty : Let that be a lesson to bloggers everywhere: if you don't see results in the first month of your efforts, give up. https://twitter.com/... Erica Joy / @ericajoy : social media's ability to spread messages far, fast, and for free is not something i've seen on any other medium. https://twitter.com/... Mia Farrow / @miafarrow : Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership. Upset On its last day, his site received just 1,500 shares or comments on Facebook and Twitter https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Dave Lee / @daveleeft : As I think I've said before — both the best and worst argument for deplatforming is that it works. https://twitter.com/... Scott Weinberg / @scottemovienerd : so much subtle shade being thrown in this piece :-D https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Alistair Coleman / @alistaircoleman : As per WaPo, Trump shut his blog for the same reason everybody else does. https://twitter.com/... Hemant Mehta / @hemantmehta : That's how every single blog works though. https://twitter.com/... Hutch / @hutchinson : 40,000 votes spread out differently across a few states and this pathetic and humiliated shithead would be in office right now, bragging that he was the best and most popular president in history, suggesting he should serve another term after this one. Great work, people 👍👍👍 https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Man the details of this are really not good for brand Trump. https://twitter.com/... Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim : “Former president Donald Trump's blog, celebrated by advisers as a “beacon of freedom” that would keep him relevant in an online world he once dominated, is dead. It was 29 days old.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Bobby Goodlatte / @rsg : Trump without engagement algorithms = nobody listens Tells you a lot about Trump. Tells you a lot about engagement algorithms. https://twitter.com/... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : @jdawsey1 @BrandyZadrozny Trump actually started blogging more after our story - 10 posts last Tuesday! - but his social engagement flatlined anyway, with 1,500 shares/comments on Facebook & Twitter on its last day. Pipsqueak levels; he once got >100,000 reactions with every tweet https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @allahpundit : someone should tell trump that a blog doesn't really hit its stride until year 15
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Context & Ripple Effects
Trump’s website section was introduced in May after Twitter’s permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump, making it a direct attempt to retain a publishing outlet outside the major platforms. Its closure ends that short-lived post-ban website publishing channel rather than establishing the alternative platform Trump had previously floated.
The related coverage also showed that attention around Trump’s prior Facebook activity continued inside Facebook itself, where a final post drew sustained comment activity. The episode underscores the gap between owning a page and recreating the audience distribution of the platforms that enforced the bans.
First-order effects
Trump’s communications operation loses the website section it had used to publish statements after the permanent Twitter suspension.
Facebook and Twitter retain the practical advantage of controlling the large audiences from which Trump’s statements were excluded, while the standalone blog no longer provides a substitute outlet.
Second-order effects
The closure strengthens the value of platform-hosted engagement: related coverage found Trump’s final Facebook post still functioning as a high-comment gathering point for supporters and critics.
Political figures seeking to route around platform enforcement face a distribution problem: a self-hosted publishing page can carry messages but does not automatically recreate a platform’s audience or conversation layer.
Third-order effects
If this pattern persists, platform enforcement will shape political communications not only through account access but through the difficulty of replacing established distribution networks with owned web properties.
The broader contest shifts toward whether independent outlets can pair publishing control with durable audience reach, rather than merely launch a substitute site after enforcement.
The trend: Platform moderation is making audience distribution, not just the ability to publish, the central constraint on efforts to build post-ban political media outlets.
Trump's near-instant abandonment of blogging illustrates that the real power of platforms isn't “free speech” — it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
A Trump adviser told The Washington Post that the former president shut down his blog because he didn't like that this platform was being mocked and had so few readers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
New: Trump was upset that people were mocking his low-traffic blog. So he ordered it be put out of its misery at the tender age of 29 days. He still wants to build a social media platform, though, which is like a blog but 500x more complicated https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... …
I didn't realize this wasn't common knowledge among journalists, but Facebook NEVER took down Trump's page.They only stopped him from creating new posts. In fact, his posts have been earning engagement this whole time because users were still able to react, comment,and share them…
Good reminder of how important @Facebook and @Twitter were to Trump's political success. The question now is whether Zuckerberg will once again cave to right-wing pressure and let him back on the platform. https://twitter.com/...
In the span of a few months, Donald Trump lost the presidency, the Senate, his Twitter, his Facebook and Instagram, and his blog. I think he finally got tired of winning.
More than anything, a reflection of how critical the scaling mechanism of mainstream social platforms — and their intertwining with legacy media — were to Trump's megaphone. https://twitter.com/...
Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership. Upset On its last day, his site received just 1,500 shares or comments on Facebook and Twitter https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
40,000 votes spread out differently across a few states and this pathetic and humiliated shithead would be in office right now, bragging that he was the best and most popular president in history, suggesting he should serve another term after this one. Great work, people 👍👍👍 http…
“Former president Donald Trump's blog, celebrated by advisers as a “beacon of freedom” that would keep him relevant in an online world he once dominated, is dead. It was 29 days old.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jdawsey1 @BrandyZadrozny Trump actually started blogging more after our story - 10 posts last Tuesday! - but his social engagement flatlined anyway, with 1,500 shares/comments on Facebook & Twitter on its last day. Pipsqueak levels; he once got >100,000 reactions with every twee…
Trump finds out that old adage that not everyone who sees your tweets actually likes you. Just because 10m+ users saw his tweets doesn't mean that all liked what he was saying. https://t.co/qzhLn9Ysk8
“The blog, unveiled last month and originally billed as a new ‘communications platform,’ seemed ill-equipped to take on largest social media companies.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
“From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” page has been permanently shut down, @JasonMillerinDC tells @CNBC: “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on” https://www.cnbc.com/...
I've seen this so often with new writers. They have a bunch of great ideas to write and burst on the scene with blog posts. Then, after 10 good posts, it's like, what now? It's not as easy to blog as people think.