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WaPo: Trump's Big Lie Get Off My Lawn Rant Blog apparently hasn't "blown away" all Social Media

Trump is sliding toward online irrelevance. His new blog isn’t helping.

The former president’s aides said his new online presence would ‘redefine the game.’ But his heavily promoted blog is seeing few visitors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/21/trump-online-traffic-plunge/

On the Internet, former president Donald Trump is sliding toward something he’s fought his entire life: Irrelevance.

Online talk about him has plunged to a five-year low. He’s banned or ignored on pretty much every major social media venue. And in the last week, Trump’s website — including his new blog, fundraising page and online storefront ­— attracted fewer estimated visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish.

Trump is still by far the Republican Party’s biggest star, and conservative lawmakers and provocateurs are now loudly sparring over the importance of loyalty to him ahead of the 2022 midterm elections or a potential second Trump presidential run. Many of the party’s potential 2024 candidates say they will not run if he does, and many of the party’s luminaries have traveled to Florida to meet with him.

But Trump’s continued influence isn’t translating into a bigger online audience, according to a Washington Post review of data from four online-analytics firms. Social engagement around Trump — a measure of the “likes,” reactions, comments or shares on content about him across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest — has nosedived 95 percent since January, to its lowest level since 2016.

The idea of a spooked Trump howling into his "desk" blog is HILARIOUS.

I'm not gonna post the New York rant or any links to his blog. It's easy enough to find if you want it.

But lord, it must be all kinds of awful to not be able to tweet out "his side of the story" to his followers, and to know that his blog posts are reaching a MUCH smaller audience than his Twitter and Facebook followers.

SAD! UNFAIR! FORMER ONE-TERM TWICE-IMPEACHED PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!

Watching Carly Fiorina earlier today, discussing how Ted Cruz sold his soul, was SURREAL.

I worked at Hewlett Packard as a contractor for a few months while Fiorina was at the helm.

The mood, on any given day, was sour. There were "good people" there who did their best to keep their spirits up (and the people I had to interact with were all polite and professional with me), but I was in a sea of people who were clearly unhappy, and a lot of fingers pointed straight back to Fiorina's office.

This morning, she spoke in calm and measured tones about how the thirst to acquire and hold on to power can destroy a person, because sometimes, they become blind to everything else.

I don't think there was ever a "good" Ted Cruz who went "bad"...if there was, I missed him.

But Fiorina almost seemed genuinely saddened and hurt by Cruz's descent into full-blown Trump toadie.

It was one of those things I could understand on an intellectual level, but not an emotional one, because she and I never saw the same Ted Cruz.

Trump's "stealth moves" to sneak back on Twitter remind me of the Chris Farley ninja movie

...and I say that as someone who greatly respected Chris and enjoyed his work, BUT...

...this stuff is actually sad, like a sneaky teen attempting an end run around mom & dad. Even sadder, I've SEEN his post-presidency fatwas..."journalists" put them out there every time he squirts one out...and he literally has NOTHING NEW to say, it's all Big Lie crap and swipes at Republicans who haven't made it out to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.