@realDonaldTrump may return

Hey all, it’s Kurt Wagner in Denver. It feels like Donald Trump is getting close to a reunion with his formerly favorite social media platfo [View in browser]( [Bloomberg]( Hey all, it’s Kurt Wagner in Denver. It feels like Donald Trump is getting close to a reunion with his formerly favorite social media platform. But first… Three things you need to know today: • Apple plans to introduce a separate app [to keep your passwords]( • The Optica Foundation will no longer accept money from [Huawei for a US research competition]( • Boeing’s space taxi delivered two astronauts [to the International Space Station]( The (inevitable) return of @realDonaldTrump Former President Donald Trump has posted to Twitter, now X, [almost 57,000 times]( in his life. During the four years he lived at the White House, he routinely posted dozens of times per day, using the service to push his policies, interact with admirers, and most notably, [attack and belittle his enemies](. But ever since getting banned from Twitter in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol – [a ban that was reversed]( by new owner Elon Musk back in November 2022 – Trump has posted just one time: A [photo of his mugshot]( after being booked at an Atlanta, Georgia, jail last August on state charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Since then, Trump has been silent. No posts, no replies, and no retweets. That could all change as Trump prepares for a summer of presidential campaigning, and there are several signs that point to a return of @realDonaldTrump in the very near future. The first and most obvious came last week with news that [Trump will appear in a town-hall style interview]( set to broadcast on X later this year, part of the company’s push into live and professionally produced video. Trump is expected to take questions from X users, and at least one of the moderators will be a “power user from X,” a person familiar with the deal told Bloomberg. Sitting for a town hall interview is different from posting, of course, but agreeing to join what X executives are billing as “The People’s Town Hall” suggests that Trump’s icy feelings toward X have started to thaw. It's also noticeable that Trump seems to be getting closer to X’s owner, Musk, and his cadre of pals and advisers. Several of them, including [Musk’s close friend David Sacks](, hosted a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco on Thursday night, a public showing of support from folks who have been known to have Musk’s ear. Musk hasn’t endorsed Trump, but he has been vocal about his disdain for Trump’s competitor, US President Joe Biden. Last week, The Wall Street Journal [reported]( that Musk has even discussed a possible advisory role with the White House should Trump win the election. Musk [denied this](. One thing believed to be keeping Trump from posting to X has been an “exclusivity obligation” he has with his own social network, Truth Social. That agreement stipulates that Trump must wait six hours after posting something to Truth Social before putting it on another social media site, according to [an SEC filing](. But Trump also has a way around this clause if he wants: It only applies to “non-political” posts. If he wants to talk politics, he can do so wherever he wants, whenever he wants. “As a candidate for president, most or all of President Donald J. Trump’s social media posts may be deemed by him to be politically related,” Truth Social’s parent company acknowledged in a securities filing in April. Problem solved. With an historic and contentious election looming, and a friendly face at the helm over at X, it’s hard to imagine that @realDonaldTrump will sit on the sidelines as we near Election Day. Trump loves big crowds and making news, and with more than 87 million followers on X, he’s currently ignoring a megaphone that for years helped him dominate the news cycle. If I had to guess, that silence won’t last much longer.—[Kurt Wagner](mailto:kwagner71@bloomberg.net) Bloomberg Technology podcast [Foundering: The OpenAI Story is a narrative podcast that examines the rise of Sam Altman, from the time he was a 19-year-old startup founder, then the head of Y Combinator, and now the billionaire king of this AI boom.]( The big story “Jensanity” has hit the tech world. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang drew adoring crowds, and fellow CEOs, hanging on his every word during a tour through the Computex conference in Taipei. 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