Donald Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube with ‘I m Back’ post

Facebook and YouTube has reinstated Former United States president Donald Trump's accounts on both the platforms.

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New Delhi: Facebook and YouTube has reinstated Former United States president Donald Trump’s accounts on both the platforms. He shared his first post after nearly over two years after he was banned by the platforms over the US Capitol insurrection. The Republican leader has 34 million Facebook followers and 2.6 million YouTube subscribers.

Trump posted a 12-second video clip and said “I’M BACK,” The clip appeared to show him giving his victory speech after winning the 2016 election, as he exclaimed: “Sorry to keep you waiting — complicated business.”

The move comes as the former president gears up for his 2024 presidential run.

“The Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content. We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,” YouTube said in a tweet.

“This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube,” the company added.

The social media platforms banned Donald Trump days after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters seeking to halt the certification of his election defeat to Joe Biden stormed the US Capitol in Washington.

In 2020, Trump’s US presidential campaign spent more than $10 million on digital ads on YouTube.

In November last year, Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account but he is yet to use it.

Trump now uses Truth Social, his own social media app.

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