The current President of the United States, Donald Trump, has had his Twitter account permanently banned from the platform "due to the risk of further incitement of violence", the company has said.

Referring specifically to the "@realDonaldTrump account" in a statement posted to Twitter's blog site, the company advised that the account had been permanently suspended.

The statement reads in part:

"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. 

"In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open. 

"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement."

Twitter said its decision followed two tweets posted to the account Friday afternoon that would end up being Trump's last.

The tweets, Twitter said, violated its policy against glorification of violence, and, "these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President's statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks."

The first tweeted cited in the statement reads:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

The second reads:

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

You can read the full statement from Twitter here.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg previously announced that Trump had been banned "indefinitely" from Facebook in a statement issued on Thursday, January 7.

Per the Washington Post, in a post made on Thursday, the Facebook founder stated:

"The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.

"His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world.

"We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.

"Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms."

Zuckerberg continued:

"Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies.

"We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech.

"But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government. We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.

"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."

Throughout his life, Donald Trump has been recognized as a man who is outspoken in his responses to his critics - and that didn't change when he became president.

In just the first year of the job, the former businessman responded to taunts from Kim Jong Un by calling him "little rocket man", used a racial slur against another politician when she called him out on some bad policymaking, and continues to reference his many "haters and losers" whenever he has the chance to go off on a Twitter rant.

So, when Jay-Z had a few things to say about Trump after his infamous "s***hole countries" blunder, the president was quick to fire back with a response on Twitter:

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The rapper had been asked about Trump on The Van Jones Show, and was asked whether the president's decision to exclude certain immigrants was acceptable on the basis that it would help the economy. And he had been very honest in his response:

"It's not about money at the end of the day. Money doesn't equate to happiness ... You treat people like human beings. That's the main point ... It's not going to lead to happiness, it's going to lead to, again, the same thing. Everyone's going to be sick."

How exactly that links to Trump's (dubious) claim that "Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!" is somewhat of a mystery - but it just goes to show that the president doesn't handle any negative perceptions of him particularly well at all.

With this mind, then, fans were taken aback when Jay-Z appeared to do a complete 180 on Trump, and said that his presidency was a positive thing.

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In an interview with David Letterman, the musician appeared to be praising the former The Apprentice host at one point - but it wasn't quite what it seemed.

When asked if he was losing faith in the White House, Jay-Z said:

"I think it’s actually a great thing, and here's why. What he’s forcing people to do is have a conversation and people to band together and work together. Like, you can't really address something that's not revealed."

He went on:

"He's bringing out an ugly side of America that we wanted to believe was gone and it's still here. And we still gotta deal with it. We have to have tough conversations. We have to talk about the N-word and we have to talk about why white men are so privileged in this country."

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Sorry to get your hopes up Trump fans - but did you really think Jay-Z was going to suddenly change his mind after all those times the rapper had called him out in the past? Seriously, with his track record, seeing Jay-Z give any genuine praise to Trump seems just about as likely as hearing that Eminem has announced his intentions to vote Republican in the next election. It simply isn't going to happen.

Donald Trump has left Twitter perplexed by sharing a bizarre three-word statement.

The former president, 75, had the statement posted to shared to Twitter by his spokesperson Liz Harrington yesterday (August 11), and it was shared with no clarification or context, Independent reports.

The statement simply read: "Bullies never fight."

The short address was also shared by the Director of Communications for Save America and Donald J Trump, Taylor Budowich.

Washington Examiner is also reporting that the cryptic message was also sent to all recipients of the former president's email list on Wednesday.

The statement did not go unnoticed on the social media website, and people were quick to speculate about what the former president could have meant by the three-word address.

One person simply questioned: "LOL. What the f**k is going on?"

A second, meanwhile, questioned why Trump could still post statements via his staff to Twitter after being banned from the platform earlier this year.

They wrote: "why is she allowed to keep posting statements from someone who is banned from Twitter? [sic]"

A third jokes: "He sounds like he is having an excellent morning."

Another Twitter user mockingly commented: "So true: 'BULLIES NEVER FIGHT'. They usually incite others to do it for them while they hide in a White House bunker."

Meanwhile, another simply pondered: "Succinct, yet vague."

Then there were some Twitter users who simply used the president's statement as a chance to imitate it with their own three-word statements.

One wrote: "Purple monkey dishwasher."

A second added: "Yellow matter custard."

The Independent reports that Maggie Haberman, a senior correspondent for The New York Times, speculated that the president was referring to the resignation of Andrew Cuomo as the governor of New York following sexual assault allegations.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter in January in the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol "due to the risk of further incitement of violence".

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