The subreddit has hosted ' Ask Me Anythings' (AMAs) of notable right-wing, conservative figures supportive of Trump including Scott Adams, Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, Helmut Norpoth, Curt Schilling, Peter Schweizer, Roger Stone, Milo Yiannopoulos, Tucker Carlson, and Corey Stewart. In November 2016, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman reported that the subreddit's moderator team had changed 'at least four times' due to the community revolting. Subsequently, CisWhiteMaelstrom deleted his Reddit account. jcm267 told MSNBC that CisWhiteMaelstrom told him 'we'd have hundreds of thousands of readers there and I was very skeptical about that, not because I thought Trump can't win, because I think he's the only GOPer with 'landslide victory' potential, but because Reddit is not a conservative place'. In April 2016, jcm267, the founder of the subreddit, attributed the popularity of the subreddit to moderator CisWhiteMaelstrom. In response, Reddit administrators made changes to its algorithms on June 15, 2016, in an attempt to preserve the variety of r/all. Due to deliberate manipulation by the forum's moderators and active users, the algorithm that dictated what content reached the r/all page of Reddit resulted in a significant portion of the page being r/The_Donald content. Meanwhile, r/news lost more than 85,000 subscribers. On that day, r/The_Donald was featured in 13 of the top 25 posts on r/all, and gained over 16,000 subscribers during the weekend of the shooting. On June 12, 2016, the day of the Orlando nightclub shooting, moderators of the r/news subreddit began to remove many comments from its megathread pertaining to the shooting, leading to accusations of censorship. Byrd had severed ties with the Ku Klux Klan in 1952. The image was accompanied by a photoshopped picture of an aged Byrd in Klan garb, which was meant to dishonestly portray Clinton and Byrd as Klan supporters. For a period of time, the subreddit repeatedly posted an image of Hillary Clinton kissing Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Furthermore, users on the site referred to Trump as ' God Emperor'. The subreddit grew to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent uses of slang terms such as ' centipede' (a reference to a much distributed Trump highlight reel featuring the Knife Party song ' Centipede'), ' MAGA,' 'nimble navigator,' 'no brakes,' ' cuck,' '4D chess,' and ' SJW'.

On June 27, 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency at Trump Tower, the subreddit was created as a place for 'following the news related to Donald Trump during his presidential run'.

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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, and after Biden's inauguration moved again to patriots.win to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the ' Patriot Party'. 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'.

The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic. Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine. Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom CSS were not available. 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. ДЄctivities 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'. It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit. The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting.

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'. R/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and Internet memes in support of former U.S.

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