TRUMP TO TWEET AGAIN AS MUSK TAKES OVER TWITTER?

Soon?

It looks like Trump is coming back to Twitter after an almost three-year absence, with the executive responsible for banning him, Viajaya Gadde, being fired by new owner Elon Musk,

The former president was deplatformed by Twitter and a range of other social media outlets in January 2020, following the J6 riot at the Capitol in Washington caused by fears that the election has been rigged. 

As reported by the Independent: 

Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal, policy and trust at the company was one of the senior executives fired by Mr Musk on Thursday night as he completed his $44bn.

It has been reported that Ms Gadde played a central role in Twitter’s decision to ban Mr Trump with CEO Jack Dorsey vacationing on a private island at the time. [...]

Mr Musk has publicly criticised the Twitter decision to ban Mr Trump from the platform.

He called the move a “mistake” earlier this year at a financial conference, while not directly saying whether he’d reverse it should he take over the company.

“I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump,” said Mr Musk in May. “I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Musk is almost certain to unban Trump. In a recent statement aimed at Twitter's advertisers, he said he was acquiring the platform because he believed it was important to have a space where "a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner".

Trump banner Vijaya Gadde (with her husband)

He added that there was currently a "great danger" that social media will "splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society".

But there is still a question mark over whether Trump will return. Following his Twitter ban, Trump has repeatedly said that he would not leave his own social media platform Truth Social to return to Twitter. We shall see.