During President Donald Trump's first term, his main social media outlet was Twitter, now X.com. But after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building, Trump was suspended from the platform.

The former Twitter is now owned by Tesla/SpaceX head Elon Musk, a major Trump ally. And Trump is more than welcome to use his @realDonaldTrump account on X again. But Trump, during his second term, prefers to use his own Truth Social as his primary social media account.

The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt examines Trump's frequent Truth Social posts in an article published on May 3, stressing how "bizarre" they have recently been.

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"No political leader has used social media quite like Donald Trump," Gabbatt observes. "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."

Trump's Truth Social Posts, Gabbatt stresses, are not vetted for accuracy.

"Trump then made the extraordinary, and untrue, claim that Joe Biden had flown more than half a million undocumented immigrants to the U.S. in one 24-hour period, before adding, 'This Radicalized Judge is saying that Sleepy Joe Biden can fly more than half a million Illegals into America, IN ONE DAY, but we have to hold many years of long and tedious trials to fly each and every one of them back home. Where is the JUSTICE here???'"

Trump, Gabbatt observes, often uses Truth Social to promote baseless conspiracy theories — for example, linking to articles falsely accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of mortgage fraud.

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"The posts come thick and fast," Gabbatt notes. "Trump frequently writes on Truth Social more than a dozen times a day, interrupted only by adverts for 'dream singles' and 'international singles'…. Unfortunately, only about 5 million people use Truth Social each month, so Trump may have been screaming into the void."

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Read Adam Gabbatt's full article for The Guardian at this link.

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