Americanswers... on 5 Live! Who controls Donald Trump's Truth Social account?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump founded Truth Social in 2022 after he was banned from major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. But is the president the sole user of his account, and are there any “tells” for when someone else has posted on his account?
We also answer your questions about whether funding cuts in the latest instalment of Donald Trump’s war with Harvard could lead to a brain drain in the US.
And, what next for DOGE after Elon Musk officially left the White House on Friday?
Justin, Sarah and Marianna join Matt Chorley for another instalment of Americanswers…
HOSTS: • Matt Chorley, 5 Live Presenter • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Senior Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Okay, it's Monday and we've just come off the air with Matt Chorley on Five Live, |
| 0:09.0 | our live American Cancer's additions. |
| 0:11.6 | We answered a range of questions as ever, including actually a bigger range than normal, |
| 0:15.7 | because we had guns in there, we had Elon Musk. |
| 0:18.0 | What else was it? |
| 0:19.2 | What powers Donald Trump has to impose tariffs, what once he can still go about doing, and also |
| 0:23.6 | whether or not there's going to be a bit of a brain drain out of American universities, given |
| 0:27.9 | the tussle that's going on between the administration and some of the better known Ivy League |
| 0:31.8 | universities. And not enough on dogs, though, I don't think. |
| 0:36.4 | Woof. Welcome to AmeriCansus. |
| 0:40.8 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:43.8 | God spared my life for a reason. |
| 0:47.2 | Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. |
| 0:51.6 | A star is born, Elon. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm not just Maga. I'm not just MAGA. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm dark Gothic MAGA. |
| 0:57.0 | This is what happens when the machine comes after you. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm terrified for this country, and I'm so hurt that America let this happen. |
| 1:04.1 | I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. |
| 1:23.7 | Now this is very exciting. Hot off the paper. I've just been handed a piece of paper. |
| 1:29.9 | So I'm sure we could all rattle off all the ways that you can get in touch on the text, |
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