Donald Trump may be off social media but he is still dissing people left, right and centre. In an interview with Fox News, the former US president said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg would visit him at the White House and “kiss his a**” when he was in power.
Trump, who is currently fighting a class-action lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after being unceremoniously booted from the platforms in the wake of the US Capitol riots in January this year, described these tech giants as “sick”.
“These people are sick. He (Zuckerberg) used to come to the White House to kiss my a**. He and his lovely wife used to have dinner with me at the White House. Then you see what they do about me and it’s just sort of crazy,” Trump said during an interview with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News.
Lashing out at Twitter, Trump said his presence on the microblogging site had transformed it from a “failed operation” to a success. The platform has become “a very boring place” now that he’s not on it, he told Gutfeld.
“A lot of people think Twitter was bad for me, but I disagree. I think it was good for meWhen I went on to Twitter like 12 years ago, it was a failed operation. And it became successful and a lot of people said I had a lot to do with it,” Trump bragged.
The former US president also criticized his successor, Joe Biden, for his handling of the situation in Afghanistan. Complaining about the difference in how the media treated him versus Biden, Trump claimed that he would have been “impeached” if he had left behind Afghan translators like Biden allegedly has.
Trump had memorably said “Do you miss me now? as scenes of chaos and anguish unfolded at Kabul airport, where desperate Afghans were trying to get on a flight out of the country to escape the Taliban, amid a haphazard withdrawal of US troops.
He also repeated his charge that deposed Afghan president Ashraf Ghani is a “crook” who made off with “$200 million” when he fled Afghanistan as the Taliban seized control.
