Donald Trump claims Twitter has made it hard for people to follow him

Donald Trump claims Twitter has made it hard for people to follow him and says it’s ‘wrong and possibly illegal’

  • Trump was speaking in an interview on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan 
  • He said several tech giants were ‘against him’ being reelected in 2020 election 
  • The President said he had been ‘very good’ for Twitter in the last few years 

Donald Trump has claimed Twitter is making it harder for people to follow him and says the practice is ‘possibly illegal’.

In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on the sidelines of the G20 summit he said tech giants like Google and Twitter were against him being reelected in 2020.

‘Google, by some measures the most powerful country in the world, all information flows through it, they’re against you. They don’t want you re-elected. Can you get re-elected if Google is against you?’ Carlson asked the president.

‘I’ve been hearing that about Google and Facebook and Twitter,’ Trump said, ‘I won. They were totally against me.’

Donald Trump bashed Twitter and other tech giants in an interview with Fox News on the side of the G20 summit

‘They fought me very hard, I heard that, and they’re fighting me very hard right now,’ he added.

‘Which is incredible because I think the Democrats want to shut them up and frankly, so do a lot of Republicans.’ 

‘If you look at Twitter. I have millions and millions of people on Twitter and it’s a very good arm for me. It’s great social media,’ he said.

‘But they don’t treat me right. And I know for a fact that a lot of people try and follow me and it’s very hard. I have so many people coming up, they say, ‘Sir, it’s so hard.’ 

‘They make it hard to follow. What they’re doing is wrong and possibly illegal and a lot of things are being looked at right now.’ 

Trump then hit out at Twitter for being ‘against him’ and said he had been ‘very good’ for the social media network.

The President said Twitter was 'against him' and accused the network of trying to stop him getting reelected

The President said Twitter was ‘against him’ and accused the network of trying to stop him getting reelected

‘They were all against me. Twitter was against me. Twitter. I’ve been very good for Twitter. I don’t think Twitter would be the same without what I do on Twitter,’ he said.

Tucker reiterated Trump’s claim that ‘what the tech companies are doing may be illegal,’ before asking the president whether the Department of Justice will investigate the claim.

‘Well, they could be. I don’t even want to say whether or not they’re doing something but I will tell you, there’s a lot of people that want us to… take action against Facebook and against Twitter and frankly, against Amazon,’ the president responded.

The President has frequently hit out at tech giants for allegedly burying conservative media outlets in search results.

Twitter has often found itself in the firing line despite Trump using it every day to discuss policy in view of his 61.6 million followers.

Tech giants like Twitter have frequently been subjected to rants from the President during his time in office

Tech giants like Twitter have frequently been subjected to rants from the President during his time in office

During the interview, Trump also warned Iran that he isn’t afraid to take action against the regime after calling off a retaliatory military strike.  

Trump said his decision not to carry out the strike in response to Iran’s downing a US military surveillance drone last month gained him ‘a lot of great capital’, before noting that ‘if something should happen, we’re in a position to do far worse by not doing it.’

Trump later took aim at the 2015 nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama and renewed his commitment to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. 

The interview took place hours before reports emerged that Iran has violated the 2015 nuclear deal by exceeding the agreed upon 660-pound threshold for the Islamic Republic’s low-enriched uranium stockpile. 

The White House released a statement earlier in the day outlining how the US will continue to put pressure on Iran. 

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