The Trump Posts You Probably Aren’t Seeing

TechnologyHis Truth Social posts are even worse than you think.By Charlie WarzelSeptember 24, 2024 Listen1.0x0:009:05Listen to more stories on harkSign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.Do you remember what it was like when Donald Trump couldn’t stop tweeting? When it felt like, no matter the time of day or what you were doing, his caps-lock emeses were going to find you, like a heat-seeking, plain-text missile? Enjoying a nice little morning at the farmer’s market? Hold on, here’s a push alert about Trump calling Kim Jong Un “rocket man” on Twitter. Turn on the radio, and you’d hear somebody recapping his digital burbles. You could probably make the case that a large portion of the words spoken on cable-news panels from 2015 to early 2021 were at least tangentially about things that Trump pecked onto his smartphone from a reclining position.Then January 6 happened. Twitter, worried about “the risk of further incitement of violence,” permanently sus...