What is Donald Trump most likely to write about online?
President Donald Trump's May was dominated by the war in Iran and his constant efforts to fully subjugate the Republican Party. However, the president also had other matters on his mind.
A POLITICO analysis of every post Trump made in May on Truth Social — the social networking site he owns — reveals that the president is focused equally on foreign policy and beautifying the nation's capital. In total, there are over 800 posts and shares.
“Washington is rediscovering its beauty, elegance and charm,” he wrote on May 20. — “The biggest gem, however, will be Reflecting Pool [czyli basen w parku National Mall, znajdującym się w centrum Waszyngtonu] — 2,500 feet long and almost 200 feet wide, the largest structure of its kind in history, but which has caused great trouble for many administrations because since its construction in 1922 it has never really worked as it should!
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Swimming pool on the National Mall in Washington, DC
Despite this, he invariably devoted most of his time to striving to shape the Republican Party in his own image. He most often commented on the topic of “Trump's GOP” (GOP is the traditional, historically derived name for the Republican Party): he supported candidates in lower-level elections, boasted about his successes and smugly attacked those who opposed him.
Trump's unusual use of social media is nothing new. He's been sharing his thoughts for years—first on Twitter, now on Truth Social—in his trademark stream-of-consciousness style. But it is his constant comments online that best demonstrate what issues are most important to him as president — and what preoccupies him most.
Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that Truth Social is “one of the most important ways the president communicates directly and authentically with Americans and the world.” “Americans have never had a president as open as Donald Trump, who shares his thoughts with them in real time on all the most important issues of the day,” Wales says.
To prepare this analysis, POLITICO journalists cataloged every post the president made in May and then sorted them into broad categories — such as the economy, media criticism and foreign affairs. We did not use any artificial intelligence to describe the president's posts, and we assigned each post to only one main category, even if Trump touched on several topics.
What Donald Trump wrote online in May:
| Trump's Republican Party (GOP). | 222 |
| Renewing Washington (DC) | 80 |
| Images and iconography | 77 |
| War with Iran | 68 |
| Foreign affairs | 62 |
| Complaints and accusations of corruption | 55 |
| Media | 44 |
| Other | 37 |
| Insults against Democrats | 32 |
| Integrity of elections | 29 |
| Economy | 22 |
The conflict in Iran, which has been ongoing for three months, also remains one of the main topics. Trump raised the topic of war 68 times in May, repeating his belief in the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and showing confidence in his ability to negotiate peace.
“If I make an agreement with Iran, it will be good and proper, not like the one Obama made, giving Iran huge amounts of CASH and an open path to nuclear weapons,” he wrote on May 24. — “Our deal is the complete opposite, but no one has seen it or knows what it is. It's not even fully negotiated yet. So don't listen to losers who criticize something they know nothing about. Unlike my predecessors who should have solved this problem years ago, I don't make bad deals!”
The third largest category of entries were images and symbols – from AI-generated images of Trump's face on Mount Rushmore to authentic photos with the American flag in the background.
In May, the most activity occurred between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., when there were over 78 entries.
There were other clear themes that emerged: Trump focused on allegations against political opponents and corruption allegations 55 times — about 7 percent. all his entries.
