President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office on February 10, 2025 (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok/Flickr)
President Donald Trump makes late-night social media posts so frequently, a recent report indicates that he may literally not be getting enough sleep.
“Donald Trump’s late-night and early-morning posting habit is now so prolific there were only five days in April when he could have had a full night’s sleep,” The Daily Beast’s Josh Fiallo posted on Sunday. The publication analyzed Trump’s use of his Truth Social platform and concluded that there is a “breathtaking scale” to his late-night posting.
“At this point in his first term, the president had posted 250 times in April 2018,” Fiallo wrote. “This April, he made 565 posts on Truth Social—an average of about 18 a day.”
He added, “It is not just the number of Trump’s posts that the Daily Beast analyzed, but also their timing and nature: A third of his social media output now comes during the night.”
Overall, Trump posted on Truth Social on 189 occasions between 9 PM and 6 AM local time in April, meaning on 83 percent of the nights in April Trump posted at least once.
“But Trump as Christ was neither the first nor the last, and as the president’s troubles multiplied, his posts grew more frantic—and alarmingly incoherent,” Fiallo noted. Citing another example, Fiallo pointed out that “Trump posted a photo of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at 10:35 p.m. on April 5 without any context, presumably a reference to his plans to create a similar monument to himself. It was one of many nights when he posted between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., a normal window for adult sleep.”
Fiallo then speculated that Trump’s late night social media posts may be connected to the public occasions when he has been spotted sleeping or being visibly tired.
“The lack of sleep has seemingly caught up to Trump at times, as cameras have busted him dozing during Cabinet meetings and news conferences,” Fiallo wrote. “The following day, April 6, his eyes closed, and his head fell while he stood behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the White House briefing room.”
On one occasion, Trump posted late at night that he would commit genocide against Iran — “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” he wrote at 8:04 AM local time — even though the morning prior, he had been seen falling asleep at the White House briefing room.
Fiallo and The Daily Beast are not alone in linking Trump's late night posting to perceived mental decline. One left-wing pundit remarked that Trump seemed to be mentally ill after he ranted that his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election should be wiped from the books.
"It's 1 am in the morning, and Trump is awake ranting incoherently,” liberal political commentator Harry Sisson posted on X at the time. “He's now calling for the 2020 election to be 'permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect.' Someone check him into an insane asylum."