Chrissy Teigen and Andy Cohen lead celebrities reacting to Donald Trump’s Twitter ban

Chrissy Teigen, Andy Cohen, Bette Midler and extra celebrities are tweeting in celebration of President Donald Trump’s everlasting suspension from Twitter.

On Friday, Twitter introduced it had banned Trump’s account, claiming the choice was made to scale back the chance of ‘additional incitement to violence.’

This got here simply days after the 74-year-old politician’s supporters rioted by america Capitol.

Whereas the president had greater than 88.7 million followers, John Legend’s spouse, 35, made it clear she wouldn’t miss his presence by tweeting a illustration of heavy laughter.

‘AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHH,’ mused Teigen, who was beforehand blocked by Trump on Twitter. 

The humorous response earned the Cravings cookbook’s creator greater than 166,300 likes and 15,100 retweets inside just some hours. 

In the meantime, Bravo’s late evening discuss present Andy Cohen quipped that the concept of him internet hosting a reunion between Trump and his youngsters could be ‘too lowbrow’ for him. 

After a fan joked he ought to host the subsequent Trump household reunion ‘after he is forcibly faraway from the White Home since his meltdown is not being broadcast stay on Twitter,’ Cohen declined, noting the section could be too trashy, even after ten years of internet hosting the Actual Housewives franchise.  

Bethenny Frankel, who left The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis in 2019, tweeted:  ‘Getting kicked off Twitter is about as arduous to do as getting booted from the housewives…it’s actually designed for provocative social interplay…’

As Olivia Munn rejoiced, Kathy Griffin requested: ‘When are Republicans going to droop trump from the nuclear arsenal indefinitely?’ 

‘Hello, the president can launch statements through the White Home anytime he needs. Simply FYI,’ reminded journalist Abby Phillip on Twitter. 

Meghan McCain cracked just a few jokes on her account, together with: ‘All you needed to do to get Trump to concede was cancel his twitter account for 12 hours……?’ 

On a extra severe notice, she anxious that Trump was going to ‘burn the White Home to the bottom.’  

Jessica Alba additionally spoke out as she posted a screenshot of Trump’s suspended account with a GIF, which learn ‘It is about rattling time.’ 

‘#Bye -this man and his cronies should be held accountable for these #disgusting #disgraceful acts of #Rebel -this is just not about political affiliation, that is about #democracy #interval,’ the 39-year-old actress wrote on Instagram. 

In celebration, Chelsea Handler posted a video of herself singing the 1975 observe, I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, in a blue surgical masks. 

She captioned the footage on her Instagram Story, ‘Donald Trump is banned completely from Twitter!’  

Megan Mullally, who has greater than 316,300 Twitter followers, wrote that Trump is  ‘the sociopath to finish all sociopaths.’  

‘They (he) can not deal with dropping. now he’s been backed right into a nook, no means out. #impeach or #arrest instantly earlier than he does one thing that’ll make #January6th seem like a day on the seashore,’ she tweeted. 

Prime Chef’s Padma Lakshmi tweeted a GIF of herself saying, ‘Please pack your knives and go.’  

Bette Midler, who was clearly overjoyed by the information, wrote: ‘CHURCH BELLS! RING THROUGHOUT THE LAND, SO EVERYONE KNOWS! IT’S OVER! TRUMP SUSPENDED FROM INCITING TO VIOLENCE ON TWITTER!’ 

Along with saying January 8 was ‘the happiest day of 2021,’ she tweeted ‘Oh, my God! It occurred! Thanks Jack [Dorsey].’ 

‘Twitter was enjoyable earlier than the trump years. Perhaps it will lastly make Twitter enjoyable once more,’ Jesse Tyler Ferguson famous. 

Erich Bergen penned a prolonged tweet urging folks to additionally take duty for serving to create a ‘monster’ and see the ban as a ‘bailout’ not a second of pleasure.  

‘Allow us to do not forget that WE, and meaning all of us, created this monster. We let it occur. We should all take duty for making a star out of a loser going again to 30 years in the past. We should always not have a look at this second as joyful, however as a bailout for OUR dangerous job as people,’ he tweeted of present forty fifth president of america. 

‘Goodbye you sorry excuse for human life. I hope that is the start of the larger finish of Donald Trump. Good riddance to dangerous garbage,’ wrote Steve Kazee, who’s engaged to Jenna Dewan.

Adam Rippon merely tweeted: ‘Siri, play Goodbye to You by Michelle Department.’ 

Mark Ruffalo thanked Twitter and its board of administrators, together with Dorsey, Patrick Pichette, Jesse Cohn, Egon Durban, Martha Lane Fox, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, David Rosenblatt, Bret Taylor and Robert Zoellick. 

‘Can twitter and Fb additionally shut themselves down completely only a thought. Not sufficient cat pictures anyway,’ tweeted Kat Dennings 

Billy Porter, who referred to as Donald Trump’s presidency ‘one of many largest crises’ of his lifetime final yr on Brand TV,  shared a CNN article in regards to the information. 

Dorinda Medley reacted to the introduced by writing, ‘whew!’  

‘I can not imagine Twitter invoked the twenty fifth Tweetmendment,’ tweeted Cristela Alonzo. 

Twitter spent Friday evening taking part in whack-a-mole with President Donald Trump as he tried to handle his supporters on the social media platform by different folks’s accounts, after his personal account obtained the ban.  

Trump had initially tried to relay a message to his followers utilizing the official President of america Twitter account, however they have been deleted inside minutes.

Within the four-tweet thread, the president claimed that Twitter was not a community free of charge speech and mentioned that he was now in talks to arrange his personal social media platform following his suspension.

The POTUS account, which will probably be handed over to Joe Biden from Inauguration Day, stays energetic. 

Nonetheless, the Trump 2020 marketing campaign Twitter account was the subsequent to obtain a suspension after it tweeted the president’s message amid more and more determined efforts to succeed in his following.

Digital director for the Trump marketing campaign, Gary Coby, was subsequent on the chopping block after he appeared to alter his username to Donald J. Trump and in a tweet, provided the deal with over to the president’s Deputy Chief of Employees Dan Scavino.

‘@DanScavino texting you my Twitter login … I already up to date the profile pic, identify, and so on.’ the tweet learn. ‘Be happy to make use of!’

Twitter has not commented on the suspensions because the announce the everlasting ban on Trump’s account on Friday night. 

Trump had intially had initially appeared to discover a means round his everlasting Twitter ban through the use of the @POTUS deal with earlier than his tweets have been swiftly deleted.

He urged his supporters to ‘STAY TUNED!’ as he claimed that Twitter is working with ‘Radical Left and Dems’ to silence him and to silence those that voted for him. 

 ‘As I’ve been saying for a very long time, Twitter has gone additional and additional in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter workers have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in eradicating my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 nice patriots who voted for me,’ he wrote.

The president issued an additional menace to Twitter by claiming that they’d not exist with out the ‘authorities’s present of Part 230’.

Trump additionally claimed that he has ‘been negotiating with numerous different websites’ and promised a ‘large announcement quickly’ as he vowed ‘We is not going to be SILENCED!’

‘Twitter is just not about FREE SPEECH. They’re all about selling a Radical Left platform the place a few of the most vicious folks on the earth are allowed to talk freely,’ Trump managed to slot in earlier than his tirade was shortly shut down.  

Minutes after the tweets have been deleted, an official assertion was issued to the White Home press pool repeating his claims.  

Twitter had introduced on Friday evening it has completely banned Trump’s account, claiming in a weblog submit that it was because of the threat of ‘additional incitement to violence’, after the president’s supporters rioted by the U.S. Captiol on Wednesday. 

‘After shut evaluate of current Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context round them — particularly how they’re being obtained and interpreted on and off Twitter — we’ve got completely suspended the account because of the threat of additional incitement of violence,’ the corporate wrote. 

The account had 88.7million followers, which is sort of half of the corporate’s complete base of monetizable day by day energetic customers. 

Earlier on Friday, former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell – two Trump loyalists – have been additionally completely banned by Twitter, and the YouTube account for Steve Bannon’s ‘Battle Room’ podcast was ‘terminated for a violation of YouTube’s Phrases of Service’.

Youtube had warned earlier this week that it will ban accounts that continued to unfold misinformation about voter fraud.  

Discord additionally introduced Friday that it has banned the server The Donald which was linked the TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit.  

Fb and Instagram had already banned the president’s account ‘at the very least’ till his time period is over on January 20, if not indefinitely. 

Donald Trump Jr. instantly spoke out in regards to the ban, taking to his personal Twitter account to say that ‘free-speech not exists in America’. 

‘We live Orwell’s 1984,’ he fumed. ‘It died with large tech and what’s left is barely there for a selected few. That is absolute madness!’ 

‘So the ayatollah, and quite a few different dictatorial regimes can have Twitter accounts with no situation regardless of threatening genocide to complete nations and killing homosexuals and so on… however The President of america ought to be completely suspended,’ he added in a second tweet. ‘Mao could be proud.’ 

Twitter has lengthy given Trump and different world leaders broad exemptions from its guidelines in opposition to private assaults, hate speech and different behaviors. 

However in its prolonged assertion the corporate mentioned current Trump tweets amounted to glorification of violence when learn within the context of the Capitol riot and plans circulating on-line for future armed protests across the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.   

Twitter mentioned it made the choice after deeming that two Trump tweets from Friday have been in breach of its Glorification of Violence coverage.  

The primary tweet learn: ‘The 75,000,000 nice American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, could have a GIANT VOICE lengthy into the longer term.

‘They won’t be disrespected or handled unfairly in any means, form or type!!!’

Within the second referred to as out by Twitter, the president wrote that he wouldn’t be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration. 

Twitter claimed that the tweets needed to be ‘learn within the context of broader occasions within the nation and the methods through which the President’s statements could be mobilized by completely different audiences, together with to incite violence, in addition to within the context of the sample of habits from this account in current weeks’. 

The corporate mentioned that Trump was responsible of the glorification of violence by calling Wednesday’s rioters ‘American patriots’ within the first tweet. 

It claimed that the tweet could possibly be interpreted as an indication that Trump agreed that there ought to be no ‘orderly transition’ as they warned of data is already circling on the social media platform about ‘a proposed secondary assault on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17.’ 

Twitter additionally concluded that Trump stating he wouldn’t attend the inauguration is him indicating it ‘could be a ‘protected’ goal’ for his loyalists to assault.