Trump’s @ realDonaldTrump account will be subject to the same rules as any other user – including bans on inciting violence and posting false information about voting. Twitter confirmed that Trump will lose Twitter privileges as a world leader when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20th, 2021.

Twitter applies special policies to world leaders and some other officials, leaving rule-breaking content online if there’s’clear public interest value to keeping the Tweet on the service’.

Twitter’s approach to world leaders is based on the principle that people should be able to choose to see what their leaders are saying with clear context. This means that we may apply warnings and labels, and limit engagement to certain tweets.

Position-specific accounts like @ whitehouse, @ POTUS, and @ FLOTUS are transferred to a new administration after an outgoing president steps down down.

Twitter emphasizes that world leaders can still be subject to enforcement if they promote terrorism, make direct threats of violence against an individual, post intimate photos or videos without the subject’s consent. These rules apply regardless of a Tweet’s public interest value value value.

Twitter has restricted Trump posts like a May threat that’when the looting starts, the shooting starts’. Trump has repeatedly tested the platform’s boundaries with untrue or inflammatory tweets.