I analyzed a year of Trump's Truth Social posts for his first year back as US President. Since he has a very noticeable pattern of using BIG adjectives, superlatives, and descriptors, I thought this would be a fascinating look. These counts are all from what I categorized as "text only" posts. Of the 6,606 posts in the timeframe, I filtered out posts of videos, memes, links (mostly to Fox News articles), and "ReTruths." These are from the President himself (as far as we know, though I imagine Stephen Miller has access to this account and has posted in the "voice" of Trump–again, that is totally an opinion and speculation).
Data is from Truth Social/Rollcall and viz in Datawrapper. I took the total word count (I parsed the data in Python) and manually scrubbed through to pick out the words so it is most certainly not dispositive and other less-interesting adjectives were likely passed over so I could include a word like "unbelievable."
For anyone that wants to see more of my analysis (and more charts), you can check out my completely free, no-need-to-subscribe, no-ads Substack post here. Just a heads up that it’s a bit of snark and politics—no more than this post—but the charts themselves are all based on the data (and are almost all interactive Datawrapper charts).
by shinyro
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Data is from Truth Social/[Rollcall](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/?platform=all&sort=date&sort_order=desc&page=1) and viz in Datawrapper. Data cleaning/parsing in Python.
All the greats from MAGA have gotta be pumping those numbers.
“a year”?? There were enough posts from 365 days that great/greatest could be mentioned almost 1.4k times? That’s 3.77 greats a day! Crazy. It also works out to 18 posts a day as raw text alone, then? Absolute cinema, I’m not sure I could type fast enough to hit that quota in between all the additional reposts and uncommented ones.
yeaaa he said great again