‘Truth Bankrupt’: Donald Trump mocked for forgetting the name of his social media company

During a rally on Saturday April 23, former US President Donald Trump forgot the name of his new social media platform Truth Social. Videos circulating on social media of Trump’s speech in Ohio show him trying to remember the name of his social media platform but mistakenly calling it Truth Central.

“Because of this digital tyranny, we had to give a voice back to the American people by building something called Troth-Truth Central. Truth Social,” Trump says in the clip. During the rally, Trump also messed up the pronunciation of the word “dropbox” by saying “drok bok” instead. “No more drok bok. Drop boxes are so bad, no more drop boxes,” he said.

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This wasn’t the first time Trump got it wrong when he said drop boxes. Earlier, at a rally in Michigan on April 2, he made the same mistake by calling drop boxes “drok bok” during his speech. “Zuckerberg’s elimination drok bok. I call them the… unlock boxes, you know. They call them lock boxes, I call them unlock boxes,” he says in the clips.

As usual, Internet users commented on the incident and criticized the former president. One tweet read, “If this was President Biden, this would be all the right-wing media would talk about for the next two weeks.” Another said: “Troth sential.. Like essential…only it’s not!” A third laughed, “He actually jammed ‘troth censhel’ [x4 laughing emojis].”

One user joked, “[x4 laughing emojis] He’s never had much luck with anything resembling the truth. Another made a sarcastic comment: “He is in deep senility. Oh shit, let’s make him our leader, what are you saying?” A third joked: “Soon the truth will be bankrupt.” A fourth added: “I’m surprised TRUMP can utter the word “TRUTH”, without throwing in his mouth.”

While one user wrote, “Sometimes I wonder if the teleprompter typist nags him for a laugh,” another replied, “Steady genius, cognitive abilities so amazing.” A third joked: ‘It wasn’t Central that was wrong, it was the word TRUTH.’

One user reacted: “I’m pretty sure he’s referring to the drokbok, a close cousin of the springbok from the Kalahari…or he has a stroke on a live tv show, honestly I Probably go with the latter…” Another added, “The crowd is cheering because they don’t even know what social truth or ‘cential’ truth is? It is. Half the time they don’t know what he’s talking about, but they love him because he hates all the hate people and that’s enough for them.”

Truth Social is a social media platform created by Trump Media & Technology Group that launched on February 21, 2022. Access to it is currently limited to iPhone users in the United States and Canada. “Engagement is low, the app’s initial flood of downloads has dwindled to a trickle, and the first resignations of its senior executives have begun,” reports The Guardian. Downloads of the app plummeted after launch and response was poor.

According to The daily beast, Trump grumbled about the app behind the scenes. Sources told the portal that he swore for free and asked things like “what the fuck is going on” with Truth Social. He would complain about the negative press and the less than stellar optics of the deployment.

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