Internet laughs as experts expect Donald Trump’s “Twitter clone” to flop hard

Donald Trump’s new social media platform’s launch has been delayed yet again, and experts are already saying that it won’t be the smashing success Trump believes it will be as the internet mocks the first post on the site.

Truth Social – which was set to launch on February 21 but has been delayed until March – published Trump’s first post… on Twitter, on Trump’s son’s account because Trump got banned from Twitter last year.

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Trump was banned from many mainstream social media platforms for spreading election misinformation, misinformation that led to violence at the Capitol Insurrection. Truth Social is, in fact, meant to be a response to that: Trump said that he was motivated to start the new platform “to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.”

Donald Trump Jr. posted a screenshot of his dad’s first message on Truth Social: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!”

“Time for some Truth!!!” Trump Jr. wrote above the screenshot, which looks an awful lot like Twitter except that the blue check symbol is red.

“Trump’s first post on his Twitter clone site was written to people not on the site,” wrote one commenter on Twitter. “This was written to be a screenshot post on Twitter. This will be such a glorious dumpster fire.”

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Trump's first post on his Twitter clone site was written to people not on the site. This was written to be a screenshot post on Twitter. This will be such a glorious dumpster fire. https://t.co/nFg749LOoa

— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) February 16, 2022

Someone else on Twitter noted that Trump’s first post was a day old and only got 49 likes (it’s unclear how the likes on Truth Social function at the moment).

Lol, day old post with 49 likes. Sad.