User drop suggests ‘rejection of harsh rhetoric’ spewed by the former US president, rightwing media analyst says
Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform experienced a third straight month of audience decline in June, a leading analyst of rightwing media said, detecting signs of “trouble at the ballot box” for the Republican presidential nominee.
“The diminishing audience levels for Truth Social suggest a rejection of the harsh rhetoric expressed by the ex-president and his political allies that is one of the hallmarks of the two-year-old platform,” Howard Polskin said.
“If this softness persists, it might portend trouble for Mr Trump at the ballot box in November.”
Polskin is president of TheRighting, a site that seeks to “inform middle-of-the-road and liberal audiences about stories and viewpoints not on their radar that are shaping political opinion across a wide swath of America”.
I still don’t understand the logic of this. Tens of millions of dollars a year is a lot of money, but so is the profits from running three casinos.
Wouldn’t running the casinos well be more profitable in the long term? And generally more sensible unless the goal is specifically to hurt the banks?