- A Washington Post analysis has found that Donald Trump is Truthing up a storm this election cycle.
- The Post found Trump had drafted 760 all-uppercase screeds in 487 days of his 2024 campaign.
Donald Trump has always been a high-energy poster, but a new analysis from The Washington Post shows just how online the former president is.
The Post analyzed Trump's online posts during his 2016 and 2024 campaigns and found that his posting had become more frequent. It reported that between June 2015 and March 2016, the president posted an average of 18 times a day on Twitter, and during his current campaign, which began in November 2022, he'd been posting roughly 29 times a day on Truth Social.
Trump's recent Truths contain many all-caps screeds, and the Post found that he'd written 760 uppercase posts in the 487 days between November 15, 2022, and March 15. In the same timeframe, he'd written 570 posts insulting political opponents, such as President Joe Biden, and the prosecutors and judges working on his cases, the Post reported.
"President Trump uses Truth Social — which is as hot as a pistol — to speak truth to power and get his message out unfiltered," Trump's campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, told the outlet.
Cheung didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Trump's posts tend to be about his brimming legal docket of four criminal cases, multiple civil cases such as the ones brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll and New York Attorney General Letitia James, and his persisting belief that he's the victim of a political witch hunt.
In Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, he's also pushed the limits of a gag order that instructs him not to post "threatening, inflammatory, denigrating" remarks on his social media about witnesses, court staff, and jurors. Trump's also been accused multiple times of inciting violence with his posts — he faced a similar accusation over his Twitter posts before the riots on January 6, 2021.
District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought a 41-count indictment against the former president in the Georgia election-interference case, has also felt the wrath of Trump's posts. The DA faced racist abuse and calls for violence after Trump posted about his case.
The Post's analysis also found that Truth Social had become an effective bubble for Trump — the king of the castle on his majority-owned conservative social-media site — to foster his rage. It reported that the former president shared hundreds of links from right-wing sites, with 407 links to Right Side Broadcasting Network and 318 links to Breitbart News, to name a few.
While Trump is deeply entrenched in his social-media site, which he launched in 2022 after being barred from sites such as Twitter, the company continues to experience financial troubles.
Since Trump Media & Technology Group — the company that owns Truth Social — went public at the end of March, the company's shares have continued to fall, going from more than $70 a share to about $36 as of Friday, BI previously reported.
Trump's net worth initially jumped to $7 billion — making him richer than the billionaire George Soros. Following the loss in value of the company's stocks, the former president lost $3.3 billion and is set to lose more.
The company also reported a net loss of $58.2 million in 2023, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Trump Media.