Influencer in chief
"These people could be ice skating on the top of yachts, and instead they’re tapping away on their screens."
Full story: Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
President Donald Trump is posting on the internet with a velocity and ferocity far beyond that of his first term, surprising aides with predawn messages fired off at a blistering pace.
As of Sunday, Trump had posted 2,262 times to his company’s social network Truth Social in the 132 days since his inauguration, a Washington Post analysis has found — more than three times the number of tweets he sent during the same period of his first presidency, according to data from the Trump Twitter Archive.
The data portrays an influencer-in-chief whose reach has grown vastly larger than during his first term. The heightened volume is not just the handiwork of Trump’s thumbs; he now has a team of aides who help him post throughout the day. And many of his posts leap to other platforms with help from an active base of administration leaders, right-wing influencers and MAGA media figures who amplify them far and wide.
His prolific posts also allow him to communicate directly to his fans, without any filtering from media outlets.
At 7:22 a.m. on Memorial Day, he commemorated the day of mourning for American service members killed in the line of duty with a 172-word stem-winder written in all capital letters: “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane.”
And on Saturday night, he reposted an outrageous item to his nearly 10 million followers saying former president Joe Biden had been executed in 2020 and replaced by a “soulless mindless” robotic clone.
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