The Dauphin
Disgraced loser Donald Trump held a “press conference” today to tell an indifferent world that he’s suing Social Media for not letting him use its platforms to incite a civil war.
The funniest part is the photo, titled Let’s Pretend This Is Still the White House.
He’s at his New Jersey golf club.
Why are the heads of the people to Voldemort’s right and left erased?
I would say that Trump will probably bite the dust at that hurdle, and spend the rest of his days chanting an ‘I was robbed’ mantra, and stirring up his dwindling band of followers to believe that THEY were robbed as well. Except a narcissist like Trump has a hard time taking his eyes off the mirror long enough to think of them in any other terms but as a means to an end; always his own.
Under both Facebook’s and Twitter’s Terms of Service, any dispute with them has to be filed in federal or state courts in California, and Trump filed his in Florida. They’ll be tossed out on those grounds, but Trump will go begging for MAGA money in the meantime.
@GW: Whatever the reason for their erasure, it was done promptly.
In addition to the Section 230 problem, there’s also a little thing called the First Amendment that protects people from having to publish other people’s views. You can’t sue Facebook for suspending you any more than you can sue the New York Times for not publishing your op-ed, or Fox News for not giving you your own show.
This is not some new, untested area of law. It’s not a liberal vs. conservative judges thing. People have been trying to sue social media companies for years now, and they get shot down easily. It didn’t work for Meghan Murphy against Twitter, and it won’t work for Trump, and I suspect everyone involved knows it.
This lawsuit is performative litigation from top to bottom. Trump raises money off of it, and positions himself as a brave crusader against cancel culture.
Quite. People have reported already receiving begging letters from Trump’s campaign that mention exactly that. The purpose of the ‘press conference’ was clear from the start.
@ #4, I see what you did there. :-)
@GW #1
I believe they’re blocked by teleprompters.
Colin,
That’s impossible. I was assured that only Obama used teleprompters, because he was an unqualified affirmative action president. Oh, and Biden too, because he’s senile and can’t remember his own name. But big manly stable genius Trump wouldn’t use one!
Screechy, hearing Trump’s speeches, I could believe it. Oh, I know, he stayed on script sometimes for an entire paragraph, but why use a teleprompter when you’re just going to shout insults? (Somebody should give him a copy of Shakespeare; the bard knew how to insult much better than just Loser!)
I wonder if he cheated on the stable boy test when he was promoted to stable genius. Not understanding the concept of self parody sure makes it look that way. He doesn’t seem to be having any fun at all with it. :P