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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

From Obama-apes to Trump-as-Jesus: Is there a rock bottom to the president’s unhinged social media habit?

When President Donald Trump has trouble sleeping, he picks up his smartphone and doom scrolls through social media, posting and reposting things in search of the dopamine hit that comes from seeing a post go viral and whip up millions of his followers on Truth Social.

It’s a pattern that dates back to his earliest days in politics, when he would set the political world alight in 140 (later 280) character bursts on the site formerly known as Twitter.

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