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

<p>The president’s little used social media platform offers him a forum for his nonstop haranguing and score-settling</p><p>No political leader has used social media quite like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>. 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.</p><p>In the hundreds of “Truths” since he took office, Trump has variously used Truth Social to <a href="http://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114032082899254855">reimagine himself as a king</a> and to urge Americans to <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114308258545250117">“BE COOL!”</a> as the stock market tanked in the wake of his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-tariffs">trade war</a>, the president’s seemingly random use of capital letters, punctuation and inaccurate spelling consistent across the messages.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/03/trump-truth-social-media-posts">Continue reading...</a>