Donald Trump’s potential return to Twitter won’t be a big deal according to the social media company’s owner-to-be Elon Musk, who ridiculed the reaction to the news in an interaction with the co-founder of cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Musk, whose $44 billion offer to buy Twitter was accepted by the company last month, recently said he would reverse the “morally wrong” permanent ban placed upon the former U.S. president.
The multi-billionaire said in a Financial Times conference on Tuesday: “Banning Trump from Twitter didn’t end Trump’s voice. It will amplify it among the right and this is why it is morally wrong and flat out stupid.”
Musk said that if he becomes the owner of Twitter then permanent bans will be reserved only for bot and spam accounts and that temporary bans or tweet deletions could be the course of action for people who break the rules with illegal or harmful tweets.
However, he expressed doubt that Trump would return to Twitter even if the former president’s ban was reversed, stating: “He has publicly stated that he will not be coming back to Twitter and that he will only be on Truth Social.”
Truth Social is Trump’s own social media platform, which was created after Trump’s Twitter ban in January 2021 as a result of what Twitter called “risk of further incitement of violence” following comments he made regarding the Capitol riots which were carried out by his supporters.
Musk commented further on Trump’s hypothetical return to Twitter on Tuesday night in a tweet thread with Billy Markus, a software engineer known as one of the creators of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency token.
