The short answer is probably that if Twitter were to ban Trump, they'd face an enormous backlash from folks who take it as suppression of political opinions. It's a blessing and a curse for twitter, I'm sure -- having Trump tweet regularly has probably been a boon for business, overall. If you're generous, you could make the argument that Twitter is allowing the President to bypass the traditional media outlets and have his voice heard directly (for better or worse).
> Surely threatening nuclear war violates their "Abusive Behavior" rules.
Even if you were to try to live by the letter of the law, you'd have a hard time really getting this to stick, I imagine. If this is the tweet you're referring to:
"Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"
Then I think you'd have a hard time construing this as "terrorism", any moreso than half of Twitter's population has said (sports teams getting "killed", public figures "not being around anymore" (i.e. probably meaning "in office")).
The interpretation of the Twitter rules that people seem to expect is one which bans everyone they detest and permits everyone they like. I mean, there's a huge overlap between the people complaining about Twitter not banning Trump because nuclear war and the Nazi-punching brigade who rely on Twitter's rules on threatening violence not actually banning all threats of violence.
(Not to mention that that the main reason the demands to ban Trump have restarted is because Twitter briefly suspended someone for posting another person's private phone number to their 800,000 Twitter followers, and she and everyone else is using this to justify why Twitter should have let her get away with it.)
> Surely threatening nuclear war violates their "Abusive Behavior" rules.
Even if you were to try to live by the letter of the law, you'd have a hard time really getting this to stick, I imagine. If this is the tweet you're referring to:
"Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"
Then I think you'd have a hard time construing this as "terrorism", any moreso than half of Twitter's population has said (sports teams getting "killed", public figures "not being around anymore" (i.e. probably meaning "in office")).