Trump’s Blog Has Been Permanently Shut Down

The webpage, where the former President chose to communicate after he was banned from Facebook and Twitter, has been permanently shut down. 

Trump’s senior aide, Jason Miller, who told CNBC on Wednesday, June 2nd, confirmed that the page “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website and will not be returning. “It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in his email.

Having declined the request to provide additional details, Miller further told CNBC that he hopes to have more information on the broader efforts soon. “I do not have a precise awareness of timing,” he said.

Miller was later asked whether the former president plans to join another social media platform after shutting down his blog. Miller’s reply was, “Yes, actually, it is. Stay tuned!”

The Former President was banned from posting on Facebook and Twitter after the January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol by the then-president’s supporters. 

Trump, who never conceded to President Joe Biden, repeatedly and falsely claimed on social media after the November 3rd election that the race was stolen from him by widespread fraud.

“Trump and his allies have long accused social media giants of being tainted by political bias and prone to censoring conservatives. The former president has teased the rollout of an alternative platform,” CNBC reports

But the blog, unveiled last month and originally billed as a new “communications platform,” seemed ill-equipped to take on the largest social media companies.

Miller clarified at the time — on Twitter — that the “Desk” page was “a great resource” to find Trump’s statements, “but this is not a new social media platform.”

At the time of his social media ban in January, Trump boasted tens of millions of followers on Twitter and millions on Facebook.

Trump’s blog, in contrast, struggled to amass even a fraction of that engagement, NBC News reported a week after its launch, citing data compiled with BuzzSumo.

Since leaving office on Jan. 20, the former president, who gave very strong implications that he may run for the White House again in 2024, has made just  one or two physical appearances and has participated in interviews only with friendly media outlets.

Between Trump’s departure from the White House and the launch of his short-lived blog in May, the former president had shared official statements through his surrogates, his office and his political action committee, Save America.

On Wednesday afternoon, the newly blog-less Trump, through his PAC, shared a new statement attacking GOP Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona as a RINO — a derisive acronym for “Republican in name only” — for vetoing a bill that would ban so-called critical race theory training for government workers.