A new analysis of the Washington Post concludes that on Sunday, President Donald Trump had posted “2,262 times on the social network of his company Truth Social in the 132 days since his inauguration … More than three times the number of tweets he sent during the same period of his first presidency”. Trump would surprise his staff with bizarre messages drawn in the late nights of the night and the early hours of the morning, sharing unrealized thoughts that then ricoche on the Internet.
In other words, the American president submits to unprecedented levels of internet brain rot. While Trump continues his political regime of the second mandate – which is both extreme and more erratic than his first – he is more in line than ever, and it is good for anyone.
Trump seems to have entered an era categorically new in his assignment during his second term.
Long before taking off from his political career, Trump was an inveterate poster. He was a Twitter power user, commenting on everything, love outfits of actor Robert Pattinson to the musician Miley Cyrus. Then, during his first race and the presidential term at the White House, he used Twitter to dominate the national conversation, advance political discussion points and choose his political opponents. It was vertiginous to look at a president shooting the typo, mobile on the market and potentially struck from war to war at the odd hours of day and night.
But Trump seems to have entered an era categorically new in his assignment during his second mandate in office. It is not only that he publishes much more; This is also the place where it does.
Trump publishes his declarations of consciousness flows mainly on his own social media platform, Truth Social, in which he has billions of dollars in shares. Posting constantly pushes the public and the media to join the platform to keep up to date with the president’s announcements, stimulating the value of the company and enriching. He is encouraged to publish to publish, to maintain a constant buzz around his platform and to keep his belongings in the news and at the center of culture.
But Truth Social is also a completely different information ecosystem for Trump than Twitter during his first mandate. It is almost fully populated by Maga Purs du Maga, and Trump’s messages are welcomed by almost universal support and celebration. On Truth Social, Trump is sitting on a digital throne, sharing a relentless flow of content with a friendly ensemble of activist type rather than the more diverse demographic data that made Twitter. This could affect the way Trump perceives the political world: the search for coherent validation of the Maga database online, divided from the rest of the world online, helps to encourage additional and conspiracy comments.
While Trump shared a certain number of disturbing messages on Twitter during his first mandate – republishing anti -Semitic memes, “jokes” on media attack and flashes among theorists in the Qanon conspiracy – some of his most recent messages have drawn more widespread for their unique content. Consider, for example, how, during the weekend, Trump republished an article on Truth Social which said that former President Joe Biden had been executed in 2020 and replaced by clones and “ingenit-engineer robotic engineers”.
As my colleague Steve Been pointed out, Trump was recently in tears that combine the strange with the authority at breathtaking levels:
In recent weeks, the current president has used his social media platform to amplify all kinds of really bizarre claims and arguments, ranging from targeting Barack Obama with a military court, accusing federal judges of having committed acts “Tantamout The Treason and Sedition”, which suggests that Trump should be chosen to serve as a pope.
Trump’s intensive obsession to publish on social networks is a natural expression of his presidency: impulsive, reckless, self-promotional and filled with disinformation. It is common to advise the online terminal phase to “disconnect and touch the grass”. But in this case, it seems useless – publication is the point.
