After chaos at US Capitol, President Trump is frozen out of social media

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The growing conflict between Trump and social media platforms came to a head after the disturbing events of January 6.

Every four years following a presidential election, a joint session of Congress meets to certify the electoral college vote in what is, typically, a ceremonial affair.

The events of January 6, 2021, were anything but ceremonial.

Thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, DC that day for a long-planned march to “Save America.” The rally had been boosted online in right-wing and far-right circles, including by the president himself.

On December 19, 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted that there would be a “big protest in D.C. on January 6th” and that his supporters should “be there, will be wild!”

In this, at least, the president was not wrong.

During a pre-march rally, the president told the waiting crowd that “we’re going to walk down to the Capitol” and “we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women” in objecting to the certification of the electoral college vote confirming Joe Biden as president-elect.