Disabled veteran and activist Kayleigh Heinen sees a telling similarity between the current social media behavior of former President Donald Trump and his behavior during his last embattled days in the White House. Heinen assesses Trump’s rampant posting in both instances as signs of panic and desperation.
“21 posts in an hour, total reminder of what Trump did as he saw his days were numbered at the WH,” Heinen writes. Adding her take on the content, Heinen writes: “It’s projection, intimidation, repeated lies and cry’s for poor me.”
In one anti-Fox News post among the 21 featured, Trump decries that the “Golden Goose that was so beautiful is being slaughtered” and tells his followers “Long live the King.”
21 posts in an hour, total reminder of what Trump did as he saw his days were numbered at the WH.
— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) June 17, 2023
It’s projection, intimidation, repeated lies and cry’s for poor me. You’re going down and we are all here to watch you implode. pic.twitter.com/odNR41LIjv
The frequency and the pungency of Trump’s social posts now and then are demonstrably similar, as Heinen suggests — a 2021 New York Times article reporting on Trump’s Oval Office swan songs was entitled: Trump’s Final Days of Rage and Denial.
“Trump tweeted 5.7 times per day on average during his first half year in the White House and that had grown to 34.8 times a day on average during the second half of 2020,” Statista reported in 2021.
Even by those metrics, the recent burst of Trump vitriol is an outsized one — Heinen puts the figure at 21 posts in an hour, more than one every three minutes. It’s a pace that a social media bot might envy, but even considering his bot-like productivity there is reason to believe Trump is operating on his own.
[During his testimony shown in the video above as part of the E. Jean Carroll case against him, Trump assured the questioning attorney that the social media posts he was being asked about were all written by him, with no help from anyone else.]
The recent posts are different largely in that the platform has changed — Trump’s social posts from the end of his White House tenure appeared on Twitter; he now uses his own Truth Social to get his messages out.
A commenter named Dave Kelley, a Trump detractor like Heinen, asserts that the platform difference is significant, noting that Trump is “only getting between 2.1k and 3.5k ‘likes’… probably mostly the same people… not enough to start a war…”
Although, I've complained all along that people were underestimating the threat that Trump is… and I still do… but, interesting to note… he's on Truth Social… only getting between 2.1k and 3.5k "likes"… probably mostly the same people… not enough to start a war…
— Dave Kelley (@DaveKelley6) June 17, 2023
Note: Trump has been allowed back onto Twitter by new owner Elon Musk, but he hasn’t yet taken advantage of the reinstatement. The former President has nearly 90 million followers on Twitter.
