![]() ![]() Other negative words popular with Trump include ‘sad,’ ‘crooked,’ and ‘anger.’įig. The most mentioned words in this subset were ‘bad’ and ‘badly’ with 552 tweets and ‘hate’ at 306 tweets. His tweet vocabulary is consistent with an undeveloped morality.įigure 2 shows the number of times Trump’s tweets used each of the negative search words. ![]() The significance of the omission of many of these words from Trump’s Tweet vocabulary is that they are the words that many of the words people use to describe the foundation of their moral values and the essence of their purpose in life. Note that “Other” includes the words spiritual, altruism, caregiving, charity, empathy and reconciliation.įig. ![]() Perhaps most telling was that the word kind appeared only 23 times, and the words ‘caring’ and ‘charity’ were used only 3 times each. The phrase ‘human rights’ was only mentioned 3 times, as was the ‘charity’. The most commonly use positive words were ‘trust’ with 46 uses and ‘community’ with 40. My goal was not only to assess the degree of Trump’s negativity or positivity, but to determine to what extent he used words also used to describe humane or inhumane values.įigure 1 below gives the number of times each positive word appeared in Trump’s 33,300 tweets. Half the search words were negative and half positive, which makes it possible to answer the question of the degree of negative or positive slant over time in Trump’s tweet messages. I spent a few hours searching and recording word counts for 50 words in this 9-year Trump database. Each tweet’s entry has a date and the full text of the tweet. The Trump Twitter Archive contains 40,000+ tweets from Mr. As of late 2019 he has released over 40,000 tweet messages.įortunately, Brendan Brown built and maintains a searchable Trump Twitter Archive ( ) available for anyone to use. Donald Trump is the first President to use Twitter to regularly communicate with his public. ![]()
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