“Donald Trump seems calm. Hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, his palatial club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the former president plays golf, mingles with members of the club, calls old business friends in New York and Florida. The frustration and anger that followed his election loss is not visible on the surface, friends say. But, they add, the anger is still very much there. According to several Trump allies who spoke to Newsweek, the former president has spent much of his time at Mar-a-lago plotting what to do – and what not to do – between now and the midterms.”
“They say he has not decided whether to run again in 2024, and won’t anytime soon, because his presence freezes the Presidential race for the GOP. They also say he has ruled out trying to start a social media or digital broadcasting company – widely rumored in 2020 – saying it would be too time consuming and too expensive to pull off. Even though Trump remains ‘intensely frustrated’ with the bans on him on Facebook and Twitter, the idea of starting some sort of competing presence ‘was always mostly speculation; there wasn’t much to it. It’s too heavy a lift,’ says a former senior campaign aide who requested anonymity to speak freely” – Newsweek.