Trump's all-caps, high-octane rage posting is even more intense than it was during his 2016 campaign: report
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- A Washington Post analysis found that Donald Trump is Truthing up a storm this election cycle.
- The Post found Trump drafted 760 all-uppercase screeds in the 487 days of his 2024 campaign.
- Trump's Truth Social posts have gotten him into trouble during his criminal trials.
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 all of Trump's online posts during his 2016 campaign and his 2024 campaign and found that Trump is posting more frequently now. 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 around 29 times a day.
His current Truths contain many all-caps screeds, per the Post, which found that Trump drafted 760 all-uppercase posts in the 487 days between November 15, 2022, and March 15. In the same timeframe, he drafted 570 posts insulting political opponents like President Joe Biden, and the prosecutors and judges working on his cases.
"President Trump uses Truth Social — which is as hot as a pistol — to speak truth to power and get his message out unfiltered," Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told the Post.
Cheung did not 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 like the ones brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll and New York Attorney General Letitia James, and his persisting belief that he is 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 for his Twitter posts before the January 6, 2021, riots.
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 Washington Post's analysis also found Truth Social has become an effective bubble for Trump — the king of the castle on his majority-owned conservative social media site — to foster his rage. 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 banned from social media sites like 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 over $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 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, per an SEC filing from Trump Media.