A few months ago I did something similar with official WH press conferences, but that only gives us an idea of what the administration was going for with its messaging, not necessarily what the President himself was thinking.

So for my source, I used the actual Truth Social tweets of Donald Trump (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump) and filtered out anything that isn't an original, text post. Sharing of other posts, image memes, links to Fox articles, MyPillow ads, etc. are all filtered out.

I used Python/pandas/NLTK to clean up some of the data. It's not perfect, especially with the source not being the best spellman (ex. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-misspells-name-of-his-hottest-crush-sidney-sweeney/), some limitations of NLTK, other nicknames, etc. But I think this is a pretty close estimate.

Again, since this data is based on the President's mostly original words, he does refer to himself in third-person quite a bit.

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  2. So Donald Trump’s greatest interest is Donald Trump?

  3. JFC. A president is either on twitter or golfing more than anything else.

  5. And, yet, zero mentions of the guy who supposedly tried to assassinate him. For someone with a grievance Rolodex that’s thumbed through constantly, seems kind of odd.

  6. I keep trying to tell people that one key to understanding Trump is that on a 1 to 10 narcissism scale he’s a 500. Thank you for this data.

  7. He jerks it to pics of himself, melanie confirmed

  8. Of the four women (of 20 names) he mentions, his own wife gets the least attention.

    At least Pam Bondi is in his administration and has reason to be mentioned, but imagine when you are making that 3am toilet post still being more obsessed with Hilary Clinton (9 years later) than thinking about your own spouse.

  9. Poor Eric.

    My work neighbor won’t shut up about her children.

  14. Nice to see the vice prez is on his radar…… somewhere.

  16. Sounds like a fun project! If you’re diving into scraping Truth Social, be ready for some quirks. I’ve had fewer headaches using Webodofy for stuff like this. It helped me handle some tricky sites without all the usual proxy issues.

  17. He doesn’t write these posts. I wonder if someone can find out where the posts originate from like where in the world or phone/computer

  18. Where’s Too Late? A very stubborn man? Moron?.. These need to be aggregated to tally up for one person. He might come in for a podium finish. Lol poor guy

  20. If I had a billion dollars for every time Trump brings up Biden, I would still be poorer than Elon Musk.

  21. Please don’t let this sub turn into r/pics aka r/usleftwingpolitics

  23. I miss the old days when he’d be obsessed with Kristen Stewart for no apparent reason.

  24. Does the data include him signing off his tweets (which he does pretty regularly) or whatever they are called on Truth Social?

  25. I think this would be better organized with a temporal axis showing his changing focus over time

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