After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself. Not even Lutnick, a lickspittle among lickspittles.* The rest of them all use X. Which in turn reminds me of my observation from a year ago:
I’ve been thinking about this for a few weeks, and in that time,
Trump’s own posts on Truth Social have made the news on a
near-daily basis. I’ve never once, ever, seen a post from anyone
else on Truth Social make the news. Trump is not just the one and
only person of consequence using it, his is the one and only
account on Truth Social that you ever, ever hear about.If Truth Social were actually meant to compete with X, Threads,
Bluesky, and Mastodon, this almost certainly would have been a
source of conflict between Trump and Musk. Because, if it were
meant to be an actual competitive social network, it would occur
to Trump to require all his flunkeys and toadies not only to post
to Truth Social, but to stop posting to X. But he hasn’t done
that, because Truth Social is functioning as intended: it’s just
an outlet for Trump to spew his demented mad-king musings
(today he’s retweeting calls for him to be added to Mount
Rushmore) and, most importantly, get some of his all-caps-laden
bangers read aloud on the TV news.
* Every single time I type Lutnick’s name I’m tempted to spell it “Nutlick”, but that’s too immature for the hallowed pages of this website.
