Trump's Truth Social platform will hit the Apple app store this week says TMTG CEO Devin Nunes

Donald Trump’s new social media website will rollout on Apple’s App Store this week, Trump Media & Technology Group Chief Executive Devin Nunes said on Sunday.

The former Republican California representative told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo that the social media platform should be fully operational by the end of next month.

‘This week, we will begin to roll out people on the Apple App store,’ Nunes said in his Sunday morning interview. ‘That’s going to be awesome, because we’re going to get so many more people that are going to be on the platform.’

He added: ‘And then, look, our goal is – and I think we’re going to hit it – I think, by the end of March, we’re going to be fully operational, at least within the United States.’

Reuters reported Saturday that the app will launch on the Apple App Store on Monday, February 21, 2022.

Truth Social is former President Trump’s alternative social media site meant to combat Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, which he claimed through his presidency and now silences and censors conservative and right-leaning voices and perspectives.

Trump was booted from Twitter shortly after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot as he continued to push claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

Nunes has also been banned from that platform for the last two years.

Devin Nunes said Sunday that Donald Trump’s Truth Social will hit the Apple App Store on Monday and will be fully operational by the end of March

Truth Social is Trump’s post-presidency social media venture, which he branded as a Free Speech platform alternative to Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook. The aim is to have limited censorship and moderation

TMTG’s team is branding Truth as a First Amendment platform that will not censor voices just because they disagree.

There is excitement surrounding the launch, Nunes said, from people who were ‘booted from social media for the last two or three years.’

Parler and Gettr are two other sites that have branded themselves as loss moderated alternatives to Big Tech companies.

Gettr was launched and is run by former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller.

When Trump started promoting Parler after the January 6 attack as a good alternative to Twitter, Apple took it down from its App Store in January 2021. The application made a return to the store in May of last year.

Nunes is retiring from Congress at the end of this year to join Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) as the Chief Executive

Nunes was a congressman for California’s 21st district from 2003-2013 and the 22nd district from 2013 until present day. But he is ending his tenure in the House of Representatives at the end of this year as he joins TMTG as its CEO. 

During Trump’s presidency, Nunes was chairman and then ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. He was on track to continue toward more leadership positions among Republicans in Congress but opted to join Trump’s social media company instead.

He said Truth will operate as ‘the opposite of some Silicon Valley tech oligarch freaks telling people what they want to think and deciding who can or cannot be on the platform.’

‘I mean, we’re really taking just the opposite approach, which is valuing our customers,’ he told Fox on Sunday.