Elon Musk spent a pretty penny on Donald Trump's return.

Musk had to pay $44 billion for Twitter.

And now the short message service's poster boy is back – if he wants to.

The former president still gives the impression that he doesn't need Twitter because his own network "Truth Social" is doing so well.

But if even a fraction of the more than 72 million followers the @realDonaldTrump account amassed in a day is real, the self-proclaimed presidential candidate will have second thoughts.

He only recognizes the election if he wins

Twitter was an important propaganda tool for him before he was elected, when he was elected in 2016 and four years later when he refused to accept that he had been voted out.

The pathos with which he accompanied his supporters who stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 can be studied on Trump's channel, which has been reopened.

Posts from January 2021 reign supreme, proclaiming the mantra of the defeat denier.

He only recognizes the result of an election if he wins.

Because of this continued threat to American democracy, Twitter shut down Trump's account.

That was obvious, but also provokes contradiction, since Twitter does not block human rights abusers from all over the world.

A week ago, for example, the spokesman for the Taliban regime in Kabul announced that Sharia now applies throughout the country and must be applied consistently by every judge.

This is how Zabihullah Mujahid spoke – via Twitter.

Twitter's regulations are contradictory, but the company's management set up an apparatus to moderate the contributions of around 235 million users worldwide.

It no longer exists because Musk fired half the employees.

Now his will or the will of the people and thus the will of God prevails.

At least that's how Musk interpreted the results of the 24-hour quick poll of users on whether or not Trump should return to Twitter.

The vote was surprisingly close, with 51.8 percent in favor of Trump's comeback.

Only around 15 million users took part.

In Musk's eyes, that's enough: "The people have spoken."

According to the network pioneer Jaron Lanier, the two have one thing in common - the rapper Kanye West, who is now called Ye, Lanier adds -, above all, they suffer from "Twitter poisoning".

They follow algorithm-driven operant conditioning that works with punishment and reward.

As is well known, the reward on the Internet is total attention.

Anyone who is dependent on it, says Lanier, cannot let go of the substance like an alcoholic or junkie, regresses to the eternally offended child, knows only misery, anger and his own absolutized ego.

There could be something to the poisoning.

The "New York Times" once compiled who, what and why Donald Trump sprayed his poison on within five years.

The document is 48,000 words.