AI Analysis of Trump’s Truth Social Posts Since His Second Term Began.
Donald J. Trump posts A LOT on his Twitter clone, Truth Social. He even directs government policy from it.
This project serves as a "speed-to-insight" case study, exploring how AI can be utilized to analyze complex, varied data and how quickly I can get from data to deliverable. By leveraging Claude's advanced analytical capabilities, I transformed a raw dataset of over a year’s worth of social posts into a cohesive, visualized narrative in a little over two hours.
Donald Trump and Posting His Every Thought
An analysis of his Truth Social posts by time of day and content.
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Donald Trump posts on Truth Social at all hours — but the data from 7,886 posts reveals a surprisingly consistent pattern. He is most active in the early evening, with 6 PM Eastern his single busiest hour. A strong morning window runs from 9 to 11 AM, roughly coinciding with when U.S. stock markets open — a timing that has rattled traders more than once.
The dead zone is 4 AM, with just 16 posts recorded across 15 months. This is the one hour the internet gets a break.
Midnight tells a different story. With 233 posts, it ranks as the 5th busiest hour of the day — driven largely by a handful of well-documented late-night binges, including one December 2025 session in which he posted 158 times in three hours. The streak that gets written about tends to be the exception rather than the rule, but it is an exception that keeps happening.
His daily average: 17.5 posts. For context, most people send fewer texts.
Unsurprising to anyone, he loves to attack people.
Reposts & Links (46.3%) : Nearly half of everything posted is content made by someone else. A significant portion of the president's social media output is hitting the repost button on fan accounts, conservative news sites, and his own previous posts.
Other / Misc (30.4%) : A catch-all for posts that defied easy categorization: congratulating random state legislators, opining on NFL coaching hires, commenting on water flow in California, and declaring various things "GREAT!!!"… for reasons left unexplained.
Attacking Opponents (9.1%) : The most consistent category of original thought. Targets include former presidents, sitting judges, members of his own party, the Pope, television anchors, and on one occasion, a plastic surgeon.
Foreign Policy (8.6%) : Calls with Putin, threats to Iran, letters to foreign leaders, and tariff ultimatums — all announced first on a platform with fewer monthly users than Reddit.
Economy & Finance (3.3%): Mostly GDP numbers he likes, inflation numbers he disputes, and instructions to the Federal Reserve, which is not how the Federal Reserve works.
Tariffs & Trade (2.2%) : Technically separate from Economy & Finance but spiritually the same posts, just angrier and written in more capital letters.
He posts the most when he has an enemy in his crosshairs.
Overall, the underlying pattern is that volume tracks conflict more than calendar.
The months with the most posts are months when he’s got an agenda, is proud of something(s), or wants to berate someone or something.
Quiet months are months where the news is either going his way or moving too fast to keep up with.
Peaks.
March 2025 (636) : The busiest month. Tariff announcements, Liberation Day buildup, and a running battle with federal judges blocking deportations. Multiple simultaneous fights = maximum posting.
July 2025 (613) : Chaotic month with no single thread. Trade wars, Gaza, the Musk split, Fed attacks. High volume driven by too many fires at once.
November 2025 (609) : Congressional election season drove a flood of endorsement posts, plus the filibuster fight.
January 2026 (606) : One-year anniversary energy. Lots of self-congratulation, plus aggressive new legislative pushes.
Valleys.
September 2025 (415) : The quietest full month. No major fight underway. The posts visibly wander in and out about books, celebrities, random praise.
April 2025 (461) : Counterintuitively quiet despite the tariff chaos. Hypothesis: he was actually managing the crisis rather than narrating it, which is unusual.
Data source.
Truth Social archive export containing posts from @realDonaldTrump. Archive compiled via the CNN Truth Social data feed (ix.cnn.io). Analysis covers 7,886 posts published between January 20, 2025 (inauguration day) and April 16, 2026. All timestamps converted from UTC to Eastern Time, accounting for EST/EDT seasonal offsets. Includes original posts and re-truths. The December 2025 posting binge figure (158 posts in three hours) was independently reported by Axios on December 2, 2025.