Edition · January 13, 2021

Trump Gets Impeached Again, and the Platforms Keep Slamming Doors

On January 13, 2021, the House made Donald Trump the first president ever impeached twice, while YouTube joined the growing list of platforms restricting his account after the Capitol attack. The day became a brutal referendum on Trump’s final stretch in office and the wreckage he left behind.

January 13 was the day Trump-world’s hangover turned into a public beating. The House impeached Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection, and YouTube added a fresh penalty to his already collapsing online reach after the Capitol riot. The message from institutions was blunt: the president had pushed things too far, and the consequences were no longer hypothetical.

Closing take

This was not just a symbolic scolding. It was the formal political and digital isolation of a president who had spent a week turning the country’s constitutional crisis into a loyalty test, and lost on both counts.

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YouTube Adds a New Penalty to Trump’s Vanishing Megaphone

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

YouTube removed a Trump video and imposed a seven-day suspension on uploads after determining it violated its violence rules. The move further narrowed Trump’s ability to push messages online as platforms responded to the Capitol assault.

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