MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell banned from Twitter once again

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Mike Lindell was kicked off Twitter for a second time, mere hours after he rejoined the social media site.

The MyPillow CEO was previous suspended in January 2021 when he promoted claims the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

He launched his new account under the handle @MikeJLindell on Sunday afternoon, and quickly gained tens of thousands of followers.

“Hello everybody, I’M BACK ON TWITTER,” read his first tweet, according to Newsweek. “ My only account is @MikeJLindell! Please RT and FOLLOW to SPREAD THE WORD.”

“Hello, everyone on Twitter, this is Mike Lindell,” he said in a video that accompanied his first tweet back, and warned of other accounts pretending to be him.

“So we started this account,” he continued. “Please share it with everyone you know. Let everybody you know — so we can get the word out over here at Twitter in case they do take it down. And thanks a lot for helping out.”

It appears Twitter got wind of Lindell’s triumphant return and suspended him once more – for good. He had reached more than 35,000 followers by the time he was turfed.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Beast that Lindell was “permanently banned for violating the Twitter Rules on ban evasion.”

MyPillow’s Twitter account was also put to bed after Lindell took over the account to tweet out his personal agenda.

In January 2021, Lindell was booted for “repeated violations” of Twitter’s civic integrity policy, a spokesperson said at the time.

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Lindell, a staunch supporter of former president Donald Trump, had repeatedly spread unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the election.

Trump had been banned weeks earlier after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

There’s always Truth Social. Or Mastodon.