You gotta wonder
especially after the election and
especially especially after he
was banned from Twitter, why did
Donald Trump never go on parlor?
I mean, it is filled up with his
adoring fans, he would be by far
the most popular person on it.
He no longer have to look
up to people like Obama and
Miley Cyrus and stuff like that.
So why didn't he do it?
Well, we found out earlier this
week from some reporting from
BuzzFeed news about why that is.
The Trump Organization had
apparently negotiated on behalf of
then President Donald Trump to make
Parler his primary social network,
but it had a condition.
An ownership stake in return for
joining, according to documents and
four people familiar with
the conversations.
The deal was never finalized but
legal experts said the discussions
alone, which occurred while Trump
was still in office,
raised legal concerns with
regards to anti-bribery laws.
So they apparently started talking
last summer.
And then they spoke again,
the Trump team and Parler,
after Trump lost the 2020 election.
Documents shown to BuzzFeed News
show that Parler offered
the Trump Organization a 40% stake
in the company for him to join.
So we've got some more on this,
but, I mean, obviously, that is a
gigantic conflict of interest for a
private corporation to be offering
almost half of their stock to
the President to use their product.
And interestingly, they backed off
of this for all of their lack of
concern about emoluments and
personal enrichment, all of that,
the obvious corruption going on.
This was apparently a line that
they weren't willing to cross
Jordan.
But what do you think about
this reporting?
>> I wonder if they were just
waiting until after he left to take
him up on it.
Because he was like promoting
pretty heavily and then when he got
suspended, everyone was like,
I'm joining Parler.
And then, Parler got for
the most part just kind of taken
out of app stores and off the web.
And I wonder if that was just kind
of a wink and a nod like, okay,
yeah, well, we'll think about
it with the expectation to take it
up once he leaves office.
It's pretty brazen.
It's just pretty bold, and
I think that they're evil but
they're not like that stupid.
Donald Trump is known for never
putting things in writing, right?
He was always against email so
you never had
a paper trail things that he said.
That's not somebody who's wholesome
or great but he's.
And I think that there was probably
an element of that in
this calculation.
>> Yeah, as we talked about this,
and obviously Parler isn't now even
what it was a couple of months ago.
I don't know if it's possible for
it to return.
Apparently they can do they're one
of their execs who said, hey,
maybe we need to crack down on the
domestic terrorists on the platform
and stuff, they canceled him.
They were okay with that.
But anyway, there was a story
earlier today about ,Trump's plan
to sort of come back out into the
public and gain influence again.
And he's probably never going to
be allowed on Twitter again.
Presumably he joined Parler but
it's not available to everyone.
Is there a social media
path for him?
What exactly is Donald Trump going
to do if his goal is to
become relevant, be involved
in the national conversation?
He doesn't even have
Lou Dobbs anymore.
So what does that look like,
you think?
>> That's tough.
He's got this
joint fundraising agreement
with whatever this patriots party
thing is that he's like mulling.
I don't know this necessarily
a pack or actually registering as
a party yet, but they're going to
do some fundraising with it.
They can convert old campaign
infrastructure into
other political vehicles.
So they'll probably use those
accounts.
They'll use the property of
the Trump property accounts then
you have all the family members and
people who are loyal to him.
But it's not the same as coming
from himself.
And that's I think, because like it
or not, the strength of the Trump's
social media brand was just
how wild he was on these platforms.
You're not going to be able to
replicate that.
What's Lara Trump going to do like,
my father in law says humanity
sucks.
It's just not the same.
So it's going to be mitigated,
the impact will be mitigated a bit.
And this also puts a damper on
their plans to get into media.
There was rumors about him becoming
a stakeholder in OAN, or a host or
something like that, or
starting his own network.
We'll see.
But without that vehicle to
promote everything they want to
do right now is tamped down.
And they also probably can't get
any loans.
No bank is going to want to work
with him right now.
>> That's also possible.
I think right there, you might
have, I think he would prefer to
own a network or something, but
I feel he should just take
a show on OAN or whatever.
They'd let him, they'd pay him way
more than he's worth.
He'd get every right winger to
watch, even though the show would
probably be terrible and every
episode would seem like a rerun.
It's just like, man,
I can't flush my toilet these days.
And he'd be able to promote
whatever products or
properties he has.
And it's way simpler than starting
up your own national cable channel,
that's actually difficult.
And I don't think Jared Kushner is
necessarily qualified not that
they'd stop them.
I think you might have
landed on it.
And they probably give him
some kind of like stock percentage
based on it anyway.
I wonder if that'll be what it is.
He could certainly,
he could he could start appearing
on Fox and Friends.
They'd probably be okay with that.
Although the last time he did they
were pretty much sick of him.
But they want that audience
back that they're losing to OAN and
Newsmax.
So I don't know,
maybe it'll be his own show.
And it'll be just terrible.
>> Another thing to consider
though, the one thing that he could
do is just barnstorm the country.
He loves rallies, and there's still
probably a demand for them.
So if he can't tweet,
he'll just go and hold rallies.
I mean, here he can charge
for him now.
I mean, he might just
do it through the pack.
But I mean, he could just go on a
speaking tour people will show up.
>> Yeah and it'll be interesting.
As more and more people get
vaccinated, we'll be able to
find these little brief clusters
of death from COVID in each of
the cities that he travels to.
It's going to be devastating.
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