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”.
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.