Donald Trump just went on his most unhinged meltdown to date – and it appears to have cost him dearly
These days Donald Trump routinely melts down on his failed social network Truth Social, but we only occasionally cover it here, because most of it either doesn’t deserve public exposure or is too incoherent to even try to parse. But after the DOJ got the best of Trump in court yesterday, Trump woke up this morning and had his most unhinged meltdown to date. Notably, his meltdown appears to have just cost him dearly.
Various folks have counted it up and determined that Donald Trump has posted on his social network more than sixty times thus far today. More to the point, his posts have been even more inappropriately deranged than usual. He’s been posting full QAnon stuff. He called for martial law. He shared a supposed tweet from his own daughter that wasn’t even real. And that’s just the half of it.
After Trump went on his morning bender, Google announced right around lunchtime that it was banning the Truth Social Android app from its Google Play app store. Google says that this is because the app “standards for content moderation.” But given Google’s lack of action on the moderation front up to this point, and its sudden move after Trump’s dangerous meltdown this morning, it’s pretty clear why Google pulled the trigger today.
So now Trump has cost himself the ability to reach the second biggest mobile platform through an app – and there’s now a good chance Apple will do the same with its App Store. That would cut Trump off from reaching virtually anyone through an app. Users can still theoretically view his social network through a mobile browser. But his social network was getting minimal reach to begin with, and now he’s just cost himself one of his key distribution channels. He’s self destructing in real time, and this is before the DOJ indicts him.
