r/The_Donald
Subreddit in support of U.S. president Donald Trump / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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r/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and Internet memes in support of U.S. president Donald Trump.[2][3][4] Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's presidential campaign, the community grew to over 790,000 subscribers who described themselves as "Patriots".[5] The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting.[6][7] It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit.[8][9][10]
Type of site | Subreddit |
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Available in | English |
Founder(s) | u/jcm267 |
URL | www |
Launched | June 27, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-06-27) |
Current status |
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Activities by members and moderators of the subreddit were controversial, and site-wide administrators took steps, including an overhaul of the Reddit software, to prevent the subreddit from having popular content displayed on Reddit's r/all forum, which the company's motto describes as "the front page of the Internet".[11] A quarantine of the subreddit was imposed in June 2019, which required users to click an opt-in button to view the subreddit and prevented the subreddit from appearing in Reddit's search results and recommendations.[1][12][10] Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom CSS were not available.[1] Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine.[13]
The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic.[14][15] On June 29, 2020, Reddit banned the subreddit for frequent rule-breaking, for antagonizing the company and other communities, and for failing to "meet our most basic expectations".[16][17] After the subreddit was quarantined and placed in restricted mode in early 2020, moderators of r/The_Donald created and moved to the site thedonald.win,[18] and after President Joe Biden's inauguration moved again to patriots.win to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the "Patriot Party".[19]