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Twitter Says Trump Will Lose the @POTUS Account, Whether He Concedes or Not
The presidential Twitter account will pass to Biden on inauguration day
In January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, and inauguration plans are underway despite attempts by President Trump and his supporters to delegitimize the election’s outcome.
However, it’s become clear that Trump has no intention of peacefully transferring power to his predecessor. And since he’s refused to provide the Biden team access to government email, for example, one’s left to wonder if he’ll refuse to relinquish his social media accounts, as well.
But Twitter confirms to OneZero that should Trump decline to hand over the keys to @POTUS, they will be removed from him.
A Twitter representative told OneZero that the POTUS account will be transferred to Biden come inauguration day.
“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20, 2021,” Twitter’s spokesperson told OneZero. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration.”
