More terrible news for Donald Trump‘s failing social media app Truth Social.
The company’s chiefs of technology and product development, Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, have both reportedly left the company amid reports of technical issues and other behind-the-scenes chaos.
Boozer ran oversaw the technology infrastructure, design, and development teams. But it’s Adams’ departure, in particular, that insiders say is most alarming. An unnamed source tells Reuters that he is the “brains” behind all of Truth Social’s technology.
“If Josh has left,” they said, “all bets are off.”
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Related: Donald Trump’s flailing Truth Social appears to have reached code red status
Last week, a report by Sensor Tower revealed Truth Social has seen a 93% drop in new signups since going live on President’s Day last month. The app has seen downloads fall by more than 800,000 in just a few weeks, with installs on the Apple app store dropping to barely 60,000 per week.
On top of that, weekly visits by people who already have the app have fallen to 1.9 million, from a high of 6 million when it first launched.
Per the Daily Beast:
In recent weeks, sources have heard the former president on the phone swearing gratuitously and asking things like, “What the f*ck is going on” with Truth Social.
He’s repeatedly groused about the negative press and the less-than-stellar optics of the rollout, these sources said. And he’s demanded to know why more people aren’t using it—why the app isn’t swiftly dominating the competition.
Both Adams and Boozer worked one level below Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, two former castmates on Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” who the ex-president tapped to help run the company last summer.
Related: Devin Nunes should maybe probably stay off Twitter today
Reuters notes that neither of the men list Truth Social on their LinkedIn profiles, so it’s unclear when exactly they started working for the company. Also unclear is whether the company has found replacements for them. We’re sure the positions will be filled by only the best people.
Now, some tweets…
I just don't get it—why would Truth Social fail miserably, when EVERY SINGLE STARTUP TRUMP HAS EVER LAUNCHED OVER FORTY YEARS has failed miserably?
*flicks sarcasm switch back off* https://t.co/dvI69EqjOP
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 4, 2022
Trump's Truth Social is a pathetic embarrassing broken disappointing useless failure, just like Don Jr.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) April 4, 2022
Trump’s Truth Social top two key tech executives have quit after troubled app launch. ?
— Outspoken™? (@Out5p0ken) April 4, 2022
Between losing these two key executives, waking up to news that Elon Musk bought a stake in Twitter, and after having given up a congressional seat to take the job to begin with, the CEO of Truth Social must be having a cow.
— Duty To Warn ? (@duty2warn) April 4, 2022
Trump's Truth Social.
I honestly didn't see this coming. pic.twitter.com/NdmNlWij1d
— Jonathan Gaffney ?? (@JGaffneyUSN) April 4, 2022
"I saw it on Truth Social" said no one, ever.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 2, 2022
Whenever I need a little laugh my mind pauses on Truth Social. The most mis-named platform ever. And apparently a tremendous flop. Has Donald fired Nunes yet? The last laugh is Trump’s, though. He raised a billion dollars from investors for what we knew would be an epic fail.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) April 2, 2022
Now that Trump’s Truth Social app is a TOTAL FAILURE, any guesses as to what job Devin Nunes will be moo-ving to next? ?
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) April 1, 2022
Truth Social is just as successful as trump steaks, trump water, trump Airlines and trump wine. Why not invest in it? He's a great businessman! #FreshWords
— Chris!??? (@HaroldsBro) April 2, 2022
Trump’s app Truth Social branded a ‘disaster,’ by haters who just don’t know what a great grift is.
— Ben Mehl (@bennymehl) April 4, 2022
Max
applying the phrase “brains of the operation” is an oxymoron when it is applied to anything Trump related.
whereshouldistart
Damn…ya beat me to it!
Mister P
Was there ever a business plan or was it just about revenge ?
Mattster
I’m curious whether the people mentioned left because they didn’t get paid, Trump is notorious for stiffing employees and especially contractors. Also curious what will happen with the many millions in capital he raised from suckers for this debacle. I am betting most of it will wind up in the hands of Trump through his various “businesses” as he stiffs yet another round of investors.
Spunk Junkie
color me shocked and surprised. not.
Mack
ROFLMAO. No surprises here.
ShiningSex
Why is this news on here? F*ck Trump and his idiot followers!!!! Report on our community!
Josh in OR
“[H]e’s demanded to know why more people aren’t using it—why the app isn’t swiftly dominating the competition.”
It’s because the majority of the world wants nothing to do with you, or anything you’ve touched, Donny. Sure, the idiot brigade at the heart of the GQP (best exemplified by Gaetz, Gohmert, Boehbert, Gosar, Cawthorne and Greene) is good at cheating to win and being being loud and stupid and ugly and awful and distracting, but they are in the minority.
Which is one of the few things giving me hope in this bleak-ass world.
My2CentsWorth
Since Trump is still the leading GOP potential presidential candidate there is a chance that he will run – and win.
Josh in OR
@My2CentsWorth: And I’m sure he WILL run. Unless, of course, Garland finally brings charges against him and his co-conspirators.
And even should Garland bring those charges at long last, there will still be plenty of GQP imbeciles willing to vote for the treasonous bloviator. But they are still a loud, stupid, ugly, awful, distracting minority.
At this point, the ONLY way Trump becomes president again is cheating. Which I have no doubt the GQP will try to do, because frankly, cheating, ‘makin’ libruls cry’, and bigotry are all they have left.
Polaro
The only thing saving us from dictatorship is the lack of competence that comes with autocracy. As an example, Putin’s military.
MISTERJETT
OMG, QUEERTY, PLEASE NO MORE CLOSE-UP PHOTOS OF THIS LOSER. HE’S GRUESOME!!!!!!!!!
CNY1983
ANYTHING trump is now met with a groan. Youre a played out has-been, and traitor to your country. By the way, SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING that you like cocaine yourself…..any chance its you who invited madison crawthorn to the republican cocaine orgies? JUST SAYIN…..
Jaquelope
The mental picture of anyone being involved with Trump in an orgy is the epitome of nightmare fuel. Maybe someone would need to be spaced out on cocaine to even want to be in an orgy with that bloated orange mess.
Is orange the favorite color of the GQP now? One of my aunt’s favorite colors was orange and she was crazy, so it may have been something about that color that drives people cray-cray!
Invader7
Hopefully this human POS will die before 2024 or be convicted and sent to PRISON along with his family & cronies !!!
TomG
Cone on we all KNOW that EVERYTHING Trump does becomes a total failure, and this is now exception in Trump’s long list of failures. He has to be the worst “businessman” on the planet.
bambamboom777
Trump is like a walking disaster. Just look at how every single person who gets close to him ends up either in prison, broke, humiliated, career ruined, reputation destroyed, mentally ill, etc. Everything he touches is destroyed. Even political parties. People don’t remember it Trump’s feud with Pat Buchannon that led to the Reform Party collapsing.