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).

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  1. Jazzlike-Spare3425 on

    “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.

  2. Where is “hottest”? Trump had used “hottest” numerous times, such as “we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world”.