> On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted:
> “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
> Shortly thereafter, the President tweeted:
> “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
> We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy
> As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021
The argumentation is completely absurd though. They argue that his statement of "75 million American patriots" may refer to the hundreds of Capitol rioters and that his statement of him not attending the inauguration, which Biden supports btw, is a signal that it's a safe target to attack.
It's almost impressive how they manage to read things from his two tweets that the tweets didn't include.
I think just as taking him out of context is bad taking the context out of his statements is bad.
He has been using rhetoric of the kind they have accuse him of for a long time now but is always careful to never directly call for violence.
Doublespeak is part of his grifting strategy after all. You would need to see how the extreme groups reacted to those tweets. If they used similar verbiage to what Twitter says I think at this point holding Trump to that as proof of bad enough speaking is fine.
Honestly the reality is his tweet history earned him the ban but pointing to one set of tweets is easier PR.
> On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted:
> “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
> Shortly thereafter, the President tweeted:
> “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
> We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy
> As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021