Former president Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t rejoin Twitter, even if Elon Musk completes a $44 billion takeover of the company and rescinds his ban in the name of unfettered free speech.
But some of Trump’s advisers don’t believe he’d be able to stay away from the megaphone that fueled his rise to the presidency — even though he owns a Twitter clone, Truth Social, that has staked its existence on the exclusive use of Trump’s online brand.