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"His own platform" promised in two or three months
Late“I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform. ... It's going to completely redefine the game.”
- Promised
- , Jason Miller on Fox News' "MediaBuzz," speaking for Trump
- Stated deadline
- “about two or three months” → June 4, 2021
- Re-promised
- 3 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- Between terms
What happened
What actually appeared in early May 2021 was a blog, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," which drew almost no traffic and was shut down on June 2, 2021 — 29 days after launch — with Miller teasing that it was a precursor to the real platform. That platform, Truth Social, did not arrive until February 2022, about eleven months after the two-to-three-month promise.