User drop suggests ‘rejection of harsh rhetoric’ spewed by the former US president, rightwing media analyst says

User drop suggests ‘rejection of harsh rhetoric’ spewed by the former US president, rightwing media analyst says

Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform experienced a third straight month of audience decline in June, a leading analyst of rightwing media said, detecting signs of “trouble at the ballot box” for the Republican presidential nominee.

“The diminishing audience levels for Truth Social suggest a rejection of the harsh rhetoric expressed by the ex-president and his political allies that is one of the hallmarks of the two-year-old platform,” Howard Polskin said.

“If this softness persists, it might portend trouble for Mr Trump at the ballot box in November.”

Polskin is president of TheRighting, a site that seeks to “inform middle-of-the-road and liberal audiences about stories and viewpoints not on their radar that are shaping political opinion across a wide swath of America”.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    98·
    5 months ago

    It’s simply fucking amazing that anyone could be up against Twitter (excuse me, Xitter) and still fail this bad.

    • nfh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      5 months ago

      Despite him having been the star of a different 2000s reality show, Trump truly is The Biggest Loser.

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          174·
          5 months ago

          Here’s the deal, I think that was on purpose.

          He bankrupted 3 casinos and a number of other businesses at the same time.

          The banks couldn’t simply seize the properties so they paid him to keep those businesses running until they could be, which meant Trump, by bankrupting businesses, was being paid tens of millions of dollars a year by the banks he owed money to. The longer he kept going bankrupt, the longer they kept paying him.

          He drew loans on those businesses he was never realistically going to be able to pay back, he lied to regulators about it. The plan was for the casinos to fail. It always was.

          • nfh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            I still don’t understand the logic of this. Tens of millions of dollars a year is a lot of money, but so is the profits from running three casinos.

            Wouldn’t running the casinos well be more profitable in the long term? And generally more sensible unless the goal is specifically to hurt the banks?

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
          10·
          5 months ago

          That’s all he has ever done. Born into wealth by the work of his mother. Like Musk and his father. When you’re that rich, you can fail your entire life and still be rich.

          If people just understood this more broadly, the misplaced respect for them wouldn’t exist.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      22·
      5 months ago

      It’s just redundancy. Xitter already captured the right wing/fashy crowd as its target audience, Truth Social is basically just the same thing with a smaller audience. Why use both? …Or either, if you’re a reasonable person.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Like most things with fascists, it’s a show of loyalty. Sure, it’s not dressing up in Hugo Boss and marching through the streets, but for 2024, ‘Oh, I use Truth Social’ is more or less the same kind of indicator.