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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Trump’s Truth Social posts make no sense – what do they say about his mentality?

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Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One in Leesburg, Virginia, on 24 April. Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

No political leader has used social media quite like Donald Trump. But his recent posts on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded in 2021, have become increasingly bizarre: the president using the lack of scrutiny afforded by the platform’s small user base to truly let loose.

In the hundreds of “Truths” since he took office, Trump has variously used Truth Social to reimagine himself as a king and to urge Americans to “BE COOL!” as the stock market tanked in the wake of his trade war, the president’s seemingly random use of capital letters, punctuation and inaccurate spelling consistent across the messages.

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