of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter dahl from our us elections team hello to you peter so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a it's a big blow i mean president is increasingly finding himself isolated after wednesday's a band and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook on the thursday also announced that it was. temporarily banning his account and threatening also to do that permanently you tube and streaming platform twitch threatening similar steps now why does this matter it matters because throughout tribes presidency he's really use social media in a way that essentially render traditional media obsolete he's is why he could get away with bashing the media because he could speak directly to his 90000000 followers who then go out and tweeted to their father was right and so by suspending trump twitter how specifically now taking away that super power that he had critics. should have happened months if not years ago but it's n