According to a report from NBC News, former President Donald Trump and his 2024 team may be preparing to hit the social scene again; Twitter and Facebook would come back into play for the Donald.
With regained access to his Twitter account, Trump’s campaign is formally petitioning Facebook’s parent company to unblock his account thereafter it was locked in response to the U.S. Capitol riot two years ago.
“We believe that the ban on President Trump’s account on Facebook has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” Trump’s campaign wrote in its letter to Meta on Tuesday, according to a copy reviewed by NBC News.
Trump’s campaign didn’t threaten a lawsuit, as some sources close to Trump thought he would. It instead talked about the importance of free speech and petitioned Meta for a “meeting to discuss President Trump’s prompt reinstatement to the platform.”
A Meta spokesperson declined to comment about Trump beyond saying the company “will announce a decision in the coming weeks in line with the process we laid out.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk lifted the former President’s ban on November 19th after a user poll called for him to be reinstated on the platform. Trump has said in the past that he plans on sticking to TRUTH Social —but he may need all communication channels firing as 2024 approaches.
“Trump is probably coming back to Twitter. It’s just a question of how and when,” said a Republican who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations with Trump about returning to the platform. “He’s been talking about it for weeks, but Trump speaks for Trump, so it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll do or say or when.”