Donald Trump Despatched File 12,200 Tweets in 2020, Ends 12 months With Inventory Market Boast
President Donald Trump ended his Twitter 12 months the way in which he began it—by issuing a boast. He additionally set a brand new private report with over 12,200 tweets, smashing by way of his earlier greatest of seven,700 set in 2019.
Trump’s first message of 2020 that was not a retweet noticed him share a Fox Information article about Iranian-backed militia withdrawing from a siege of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Trump tweeted at 8.32 p.m. ET on January 1 2020: “Greatest tools & best army within the World. On web site shortly!”
In a 12 months which began with a trial for impeachment for which he was acquitted and ended with an election defeat that he has refused to acknowledge, Trump’s ultimate message for the 12 months gave props to the inventory market and expressed optimism concerning the state of People’ pensions.
“Completed off the 12 months with the very best Inventory Market in historical past. Setting data along with your 401k’s, identical to I mentioned you’d. Congratulations to all!” he tweeted on Thursday evening at 10.44 p.m. ET.
In a 12 months wherein Trump was extremely crucial of the social media big, Trump tweeted or retweeted 12,234 instances, based on the Trump Twitter Archive. That is far greater than the greater than 7,700 tweets and retweets he posted in 2019 and the over 3,500 tweets and retweets from 2018.
- 2020: 12,234 tweets discovered.
- 2019: 7,783 tweets discovered.
- 2018: 3,556 tweets discovered.
- 2017: 2,593 tweets discovered.
- 2016: 4,222 tweets discovered.
The graphic under from Statista reveals Trump’s use of Twitter earlier than the election.
Inventory markets did get a lift this week however the positive aspects adopted Trump’s resolution to again away from his menace to dam a $2.3 trillion authorities spending and coronavirus aid package deal.
On Monday, the Dow and the Nasdaq each rose 0.7 %, whereas the S&P 500 rose about 0.9 %, with every of the three main indices hitting report intraday and shutting highs and including to positive aspects within the ultimate week of 2020.
In his closing deal with through the ultimate pre-election presidential debate in October, Trump appealed to retirement savers to again him, saying that in the event that they voted for President-elect Joe Biden, “Your 401(okay)s will go to hell.”
A survey carried out in December by CNBC discovered that almost all Wall Road traders thought {that a} Biden presidency would imply decrease stock-market returns.
Some two-thirds of chief funding officers and portfolio managers mentioned they believed that the 4 years of a Biden presidency can be worse for shares than throughout Trump’s time period, which was marked by a landmark company tax minimize that swelled earnings and share buybacks.
Trump adopted up his inventory market brag on New 12 months’s Eve a couple of minutes later with a tweet praising Missouri Senator Josh Hawley who has mentioned he’ll reject on January 6 the Electoral Faculty outcomes to certify Biden because the election winner.
Sharing a narrative posted on the right-wing information outlet Breitbart about Hawley’s spat with Walmart, Trump tweeted: “America is happy with Josh and the various others who’re becoming a member of him. The USA can’t have fraudulent elections!”
Like lots of Trump’s post-election tweets disputing the election consequence, Twitter slapped a well being warning on the president’s declare.
