Donald Trump has at all times been a high-energy poster, however a brand new evaluation from The Washington Submit reveals simply how on-line the previous president is.
In response to an evaluation of his tweets throughout his 2016 marketing campaign and his 2024 marketing campaign, the Submit discovered that Trump is posting far more continuously now. Between June 2015 and March 2016, the president posted 18 instances a day on Twitter. Throughout his present marketing campaign, which started in November of 2022, he posts round 29 instances each day.
His present Truths comprise many all-caps screeds, per the Submit, which present in its evaluation that Trump drafted 760 all-uppercase posts within the 487 days between November 15, 2022, and March 15. In the identical timeframe, he drafted 570 posts insulting political opponents like President Joe Biden, and the prosecutors and judges engaged on his instances.
“President Trump makes use of Fact Social — which is as scorching as a pistol — to talk reality to energy and get his message out unfiltered,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung advised the Submit.
Cheung didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from BI.
Trump’s posts are typically about his brimming authorized docket of 4 legal instances, a number of civil instances like those introduced in opposition to him by author E. Jean Carroll and New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James, and his persisting perception that he’s the sufferer of a political witch hunt.
In Trump’s Manhattan legal trial, he is additionally pushed the limits of a gag order that instructs him to not submit “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks on his social media about witnesses, court docket employees, and jurors. Trump’s additionally been accused a number of instances of inciting violence along with his posts — he confronted an identical accusation for his Twitter posts earlier than the January 6, 2021, riots.
District Lawyer Fani Willis, who introduced a 41-count indictment in opposition to the previous President within the Georgia election interference case, has additionally felt the wrath of Trump’s posts. The DA confronted racist abuse and requires violence after Trump posted about his case.
The Washington Submit’s evaluation additionally discovered Fact Social has change into an efficient bubble for Trump — the king of the fort on his majority-owned conservative social media web site — to foster his rage. The previous president shared a whole lot of hyperlinks from right-wing websites, with 407 hyperlinks to Proper Aspect Broadcasting Community and 318 hyperlinks to Breitbart Information, to call a couple of.
Trump may be deeply entrenched in his social media web site, which he launched in 2022 after his ban from social media websites like Twitter. Nonetheless, the corporate continues to expertise monetary troubles.
Since Trump Media & Expertise Group — the corporate that owns Fact Social — went public on the finish of March, the corporate’s shares have continued to fall, going from over $70 a share to about $36 as of Friday, Enterprise Insider beforehand reported.
Trump’s internet price initially jumped to $7 billion — making him richer than billionaire George Soros. Following the loss in worth of the corporate’s shares, the previous president promptly misplaced $3.3 billion and is ready to lose extra.
The corporate additionally reported a internet lack of $58.2 million in 2023, per an SEC submitting from Trump Media.
