WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump posted 2,249 times on Truth Social during the first four months of 2026, according to an NPR analysis of posts compiled using a data scraper maintained by CNN. The posts covered the war in Iran, the 2026 elections, his legal grievances and Washington building projects, and included reshared videos from TikTok, Instagram and X.

About 14% of the posts, more than 300, addressed the 2026 elections, largely consisting of candidate endorsements or messages praising the victories of Trump-backed candidates. In posts endorsing Indiana state Senate candidates who supported his redistricting plan, he attacked sitting Republican state senators as "RINOs."

Trump posted about Iran 247 times, following the U.S. bombing of the country that began a war which had lasted more than nine weeks as of March 1. "We have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important," he wrote in one update. Another post carried the threat, "THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT." He also posted a video update about the war.

The analysis counted 177 posts about the economy, 105 about his legal grievances, 71 about the 2020 election, 68 about his Washington, D.C. building projects, 57 about tariffs, 17 about healthcare policy, nine about comedian Bill Maher and four about American farming. The building-project posts referenced his White House ballroom and a proposed arch across the Potomac near Arlington National Cemetery. Posts about the 2020 election claimed Joe Biden stole it through voter fraud or other malfeasance. Dozens of posts addressed alleged fraud in Minnesota's safety net programs, the SAVE Act, and claims that the justice system had been weaponized against him.

Social media reshares made up just under one-quarter of the posts, including screenshots of X posts and videos reposted from sites such as TikTok, with many produced by amateurs or generated by AI. On March 1, he made 30 posts. He made 10 posts in five minutes featuring screenshots of praise from X users for his State of the Union address, and reposted a TikTok video praising the speech, which he had given five days earlier, alongside a screenshot of an X post.

Other posts included a video portraying Senator Mitch McConnell as the deceased Bernie from "Weekend at Bernie's"; a New York Post article from September 2024 about Lady Gaga's father endorsing him; a video from an Instagram user called @truthaboutfluoride purporting to show San Francisco as run-down and impoverished; content about protesters and federal agents in Minneapolis, including federal agents killing two U.S. citizens; and a video alleging that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was involved in the 2025 killing of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman.

Trump also posted a video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. "I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine," he told reporters. He did not apologize, and the post was later deleted. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, "Please stop the fake outrage."