MEDIA LOSER: Jason Miller Former President Donald Trump reportedly declined an offer with “a whole lot of zeroes” to join Jason Miller’s conservative social media platform GETTR. Clare Malone, writing for the New Yorker, reported that she recently sat down with Miller, a former advisor to Trump, to discuss both the platform and the prospect of his old boss signing up. Trump is of course still without a permanent home on social media after he was summarily de-platformed last January after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Since then the Twitter alternatives like Parler and Gettr have jockeyed for the Trump touch. Gettr had a big moment recently, when podcaster and media maven Joe Rogan publicly announced he was joining the site. Huge signups followed. So did questions about fudging follower numbers. More recently, Democrat one-off Tulsi Gabbard, hugely popular with the online right, made a similar announcement, to less fanfare. But obviously Trump is the brass ring. And with his own TRUTH Social supposedly on the cusp of launch, a potentially devastating competitor. Miller optimistically told Malone that in the Trump's site is not up and running in time for a 2024 announcement, he wouldn't be surprised to see the former president join Gettr. Perhaps too optimistic. Malone reports that Miller told him "he’d made Trump an offer with a 'whole lot of zeros' apparently in the nine-digit range, to join Gettr—but no dice." On top of that bad news reveal, the site is undergoing somewhat of a user revolt (and an unflattering one at that) over recent content crackdowns. The biggest name could become the biggest competitor, a cash offer rebuffed, and anger in the very base that desires an alternative social media platform in the first place. That is what you might call hashtag bad week. |