Fresh Trump well being fears as his mad social media rants show ‘he does not sleep’
No wonder Donald Trump is so cranky all the time, recent analysis of when he posts his social media rants shows the old orange bloke would rather churn out memes than get a good night’s sleep
Donald Trump probably didn’t sleep very much in April(Image: Getty Images)
Anyone who reads the news will know that Donald Trump likes to post on social media – a lot.
We say “post”, it’s usually an expletive-laden rant on his Truth Social page. Whether he’s pointing the finger at Iran, or ‘Gavin ‘New-scum’ Newsom’, the Orange Manbaby seems to be rather trigger happy with his thumbs of late. Recent analysis has found that the 79-year-old president’s use of Truth Social might be impacting his physical health, and possibly his mental health, too.
The staggering extent of Trump’s activity on his Truth Social platform has soared compared to his Twitter usage during equivalent periods in his initial presidency.
At this stage in his first term, the president had shared 250 posts in April 2018, the Daily Beast reports.
This April, he published 565 posts on Truth Social – roughly 18 per day on average. A third of his social media activity now occurs during night time hours.
Trump’s late-night social media binges in April have spanned from petty and humiliating to blasphemous and apocalyptic.
At times they have been so bewildering that even his former staff members and supporters have expressed worries that he’s “clearly not well.”
Most infamously, these included a peculiar post showing himself as Jesus Christ, which was published shortly before 3am.
That image sparked controversy, with Trump eventually removing it, then claiming he believed he was being depicted as “a doctor healing people-because that’s what I do.”
However, Trump as Christ was neither the initial nor the final instance, and as the president’s difficulties mounted, his posts became increasingly frantic – and disturbingly incoherent.
Overall, Trump posted 189 times between 9pm and 6am local time in April.
This indicates 83% of nights in April featured at least one nocturnal post. Trump shared a photo of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at 10:35pm on 5 April without any context, presumably hinting at his intentions to erect a similar monument in his honour. It was one of many nights when he posted between 9pm and 6am a typical period for adult sleep.
The sleep deprivation appears to have caught up with Trump on occasions, as cameras have caught him nodding off during Cabinet meetings and press conferences.
