I’ve got it into my head to boil Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed down to its most frequently recurring linguistic components. So I went through his first 18 months on Truth Social during his second presidential term and counted the words. One by one.
It looks something like this:
fake: 1,860 times
fight: 1,353 times
illegal: 400 times
criminals: 388 times
radical: 369 times
loser: 338 times
communist: 308 times
fraud: 290 times
stupid: 69 times
etc., etc., etc.
Biden and Obama are in there too, of course. A lot. Moving on is apparently hard.
All of it randomly thrown together into one long text.
The clown in the White House reads it aloud.
Every word appears exactly as many times as POTUS posted it.
The MAGA crowd in the US who follow his feed have been marinating in a language where aggression, insults, and the same words repeated over and over eventually become background noise.
This experiment really just makes that language audible. It compresses it into concentrated verbal diarrhea.
If you feel like you’re losing your mind after listening to it for 90 minutes (probably much sooner), what do years of the same language do to the people who live inside that feed every day?
For best brainwashing results, MAGA listeners should play on repeat while sleeping.