The Guardian: “Donald Trump will soon use ‘his own platform’ to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the former president was banned from Twitter for inciting the US Capitol riot. Trump has chafed in relative silence at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida since losing his Twitter account and the protections and powers of office. Recently he has released short statements which many have likened to his tweets of old. Speculation has been rife that Trump might seek to create his own TV network in an attempt to pry viewers from Fox News, which was first to call the crucial state of Arizona for Biden on election night, to Trump’s considerable anger.”

“But on Sunday adviser Jason Miller said social media was the immediate target. ‘The president’s been off of social media for a while,’ he told Fox News Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz, ‘[but] his press releases, his statements have actually been getting almost more play than he ever did on Twitter before.’ Miller said he had been told by a reporter the statements were ‘much more elegant’ and ‘more presidential’ than Trump’s tweets, but added: ‘I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform. ‘And this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media, it’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does. But it will be his own platform.’ Asked if Trump was going to create the platform himself or with a company, Miller said: ‘I can’t go much further than what I was able to just share, but I can say that it will be big once he starts.”