Donald Trump has always been a high-energy poster, but a new Washington Post analysis reveals just how online the former president is.
According to an analysis of his tweets during his 2016 campaign and his 2024 campaign, the Post found that Trump now posts much more frequently. Between June 2015 and March 2016, the president posted 18 times a day on Twitter. During his current campaign, which began in November 2022, he posts approximately 29 times per day.
His Current Truths contain many capital letters, according to the Post, which found in its analysis that Trump wrote 760 messages entirely in capital letters in the 487 days between November 15, 2022 and March 15. In the same period of time, he wrote 570 messages. insulting political opponents like President Joe Biden, as well as prosecutors and judges working on his cases.
“President Trump is using Truth Social — which is as powerful as a gun — to speak truth to power and get his message across without filter,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told the Post.
Cheung did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.
Trump’s posts tend to focus on his fraught legal record of four criminal cases, multiple civil cases like those brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll and New York Attorney General Letitia James, and his persistent belief that he is the victim of political politics. witch hunt.
During Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, he also pushed the limits of a silence order that orders him not to post “threatening, inflammatory, disparaging” remarks on his social media about witnessescourt staff and jurors. Trump has also been repeatedly accused of inciting violence with his posts – he faced a similar charge for his Twitter posts before the January 6, 2021 riots.
District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought 41 counts against the former president in the Georgia election interference case, also felt the wrath of Trump’s messages. The prosecutor faced racist abuse and calls for violence after Trump published articles about his case.
The Washington Post analysis also finds that Truth Social has become an effective bubble for Trump – king of the castle on his majority-owned conservative social media site – to stoke his anger. The former president shared hundreds of links from right-wing sites, including 407 links to Right Side Broadcasting Network and 318 links to Breitbart News, to name a few.
Trump may be deeply entrenched in his social media site, which he launched in 2022 after he was banned from social media sites like Twitter. However, the company continues to experience financial difficulties.
Since Trump Media & Technology Group — the company that owns Truth Social — went public in late March, the company’s shares have continued to decline, falling from more than $70 per share to around $36 on Friday, Business Insider previously reported .
Trump’s initial net worth grew to $7 billion – making him richer than billionaire George Soros. As the company’s shares lost value, the former president quickly lost $3.3 billion and is expected to lose even more.
The company also reported a net loss of $58.2 million in 2023, according to an SEC filing by Trump Media.
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