Trump’s daughter/rumored favorite child Ivanka Trump doesn’t even have a Truth Social account. “That’s all for now,” the app indicates right below Trump’s one and only post, one of the few things about this app that I can unequivocally say does actually constitute a “Truth.”Īt least Melania tried. Here’s some of what I found.Īs mentioned above, Trump doesn’t even use Truth Social. So, finally able to create an account, I picked a generic username and uploaded a photo of my cat for the profile photo. It’s a fair conjecture to say that the Truth Social waitlist numbers were totally fabricated to create a perception that over a million people were wanting to join. A consultant friend of mine sent me screenshots showing that his waitlist number had actually increased over time. Needless to say, that’s not how a waitlist should work as new users were added, people should have steadily moved up in the list, not stayed the same. Searching “ truth social waitlist” on Twitter finds many people lamenting they had waited for a month or more and their waitlist numbers were not changing. Other users complained of similar sign-up issues. I received no updates on how much longer I should expect to wait and no notifications when the account was finally able to be created it just finally worked when I checked again Thursday evening. I checked the app periodically over the past few weeks and that waitlist number never changed.
I was given a waitlist number of #1,285,472 in the app and a slightly smaller waitlist number by email. I attempted to create an account on March 14, using my Mediaite email address. Even Trump himself has offered only lackluster support for his own app, posting only one “Truth” - the app’s overly presumptive label for posts - on launch day. The app’s woes have been well-documented: it’s been plagued with a clunky launch, tech problems, a stagnant user base, and an exodus of several of their top executives. A month after your friendly neighborhood Mediaite contributing editor first attempted to sign up for the social media platform former President Donald Trump launched to compete with Twitter, I was finally able to create an account, and what I found wandering around the app was even more hilariously bad than I had expected. To the dismay of Melania "Anti-Bullying" Trump, a trend of identifying and exposing "bully tactics" blazed from the White House through pop culture, and the fire has only just started.Truth Social is a mess. "We support Lorde's right to take a stand." "We deplore the bullying tactics being used to defend injustice against Palestinians and to suppress an artist's freedom of conscience," the letter reads.
In a rallying effort, over 100 musicians, actors, and creators (including Brian Eno, John Cusack, Kathleen Hanna, and Mark Ruffalo) have signed an open letter supporting Lorde, and furthering the recent wave of artists and entertainers banding together and speaking out against a system of harmful silence. And considering the discourse-inducing backlash and media coverage, it worked. They urged Lorde to use her platform to raise awareness- she did. As part of this struggle, we believe that an economic, intellectual and artistic boycott is an effective way of speaking out against these crimes." Their central argument for human rights is strengthened by, and unconcerned with, differences in cultural background. Her decision was largely informed by two activists of Jewish and Palestinian descent who wrote, "Today, millions of people stand opposed to the Israeli government's policies of oppression, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations, occupation and apartheid. Boycott those who boycott! Definitely don’t listen to I’m giving you a “green light” to go ahead and get he… - Shmuley Boteach Boteach)