Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has slammed Twitter for permanently suspending him, declaring that he and his support base would not be silenced.

Early on Saturday, Twitter announced that it has permanently suspended Trump’s account citing “risk of further incitement of violence”.  "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them - specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter - we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter said in a statement.

The unprecedented move by the California-based microblogging site on Friday comes after Trump tweeted that he would not attend the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden, on January 20.

In a statement, Trump claimed that he predicted that such an action would be taken against him and said that he will soon make a “big announcement”.

"I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!" Trump also hit out at Twitter and alleged that the site was restricting free speech.

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