Former President Donald Trump implied that his social media platform Truth Social’s initial public offering is evidence of how the public views free speech online.

Trump gave an interview that aired on One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on Saturday after Truth Social was valued at roughly $8 billion on its first day on the stock market. The former president owns 60% of its stock, which was at $57.99 a share at the end of that day.

“Truth has been amazing, gave me a voice. When I was terminated from Twitter, it was vicious, and then all of a sudden, I did not have a voice,” Trump said. “And now it’s public the stock is gone through the roof and really, this is why I think in the true sense of this is really a great sign of where the people country stand.”

Trump was removed from Twitter amid the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. At the time, the ban was indefinite, but since the platform switched hands and became X with Elon Musk at the helm, Trump’s account was reinstated. The former president posted once more on the platform to share his mugshot from his Fulton County election interference case, but his X account has remained dormant while he is most active on Truth Social.

“I view it as a poll, and I call it the voice, it’s the voice of America,” Trump said of Truth Social. “It’s my voice — I happen to be a leading candidate.”

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Truth Social has had around 5 million active users since Trump started it after his Twitter ban, according to research firm Similarweb.

Trump is currently under fire after he took to his platform Friday to share a video of a pair of trucks belonging to his supporters. On the back of one truck, there was a life-size image of Biden tied up. According to his post, Trump saw the trucks Thursday on Long Island in New York. After it was reposted on the platform over 4,000 times and liked over 17,000, the Biden campaign responded and called it another example of Trump “inciting political violence.”