Twitter Bans President Trump

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker react to the news that Twitter has banned President Trump permanently from their platform. They reflect on Trump’s relationship with Twitter, the media’s reaction to the news, and the timing of the ban. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker here.
0:11.9	David, thank God it's Friday evening.
0:14.3	The news is over for the week.
0:15.7	We can crack open a beer and what?
0:18.7	Wait, what?
0:19.9	Oh, Twitter.
0:20.9	Oh my God, that's Jack's music.
0:24.1	Twitter, permaband Donald Trump.
0:28.1	Well, I guess we could do one more emergency podcast before we pack it in this week.
0:34.4	So Twitter has just published a blog post explaining why they banned the president of the
0:40.2	United States from their platform.
0:43.6	There were two tweets today, Friday, that got Trump off the platform.
0:49.2	There as follows, the 75 million great American patriots who voted for me, America first
0:54.8	and make America great again, will have a giant voice long into the future.
1:00.1	They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form triple exclamation
1:05.1	point.
1:06.1	That was one.
1:07.1	The second one was to all those who asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on
1:11.0	January 20th.
1:13.2	We can agree that this was not Donald Trump's worst work on Twitter.
1:17.4	But David as Twitter explains, Trump statement that he will not be attending the inauguration
1:22.7	as being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election
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