Since Election Day, a Lot of Tweeting and Not Much Else for Trump

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From the New York Times:

Since Election Day, a Lot of Tweeting and Not Much Else for Trump - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

By Karen Yourish and Larry Buchanan Nov. 24, 2020

In the three weeks since Election Day, President Trump’s most visible presence has been on Twitter. Since Nov. 3, he has posted some 550 tweets — about three-quarters of which attempted to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election results.

 

Trump Tweets Per Day

Tweets about election fraud

Other tweets

50 tweets

30

10

 

Nov. 23

In total, the president attacked the legitimacy of the election more than 400 times since Election Day, though his claims of fraud have been widely debunked.

As Mr. Trump’s attacks continue, the coronavirus pandemic rages on, worse than ever. More than 25,000 people in the United States have died from Covid in the past three weeks.

Mr. Trump’s public calendar, meanwhile, has been remarkably light, especially relative to his pre-election schedule, when he often attended multiple campaign rallies in a single day.

From Nov. 4 to Nov. 23, he has had just eight days with an official schedule, though he has managed to maintain his weekend golf plans at his club in Virginia, as he has done most weekends in Washington.

DATE	PUBLIC CALENDAR	PLAYED GOLF	ELECTION FRAUD TWEETS	NEW COVID DEATHS
Nov. 4			17	1,616
Nov. 5	Delivered televised remarks about election.		12	1,108
Nov. 6			27	1,246
Nov. 7		✓	12	1,007
Nov. 8		✓	19	464
Nov. 9			21	745
Nov. 10			30	1,465
Nov. 11	Participated in Veterans Day ceremony.		21	1,431
Nov. 12	Had lunch with Vice President Mike Pence. Met with secretaries of state and treasury.		31	1,172
Nov. 13	Received update on Operation Warp Speed. Delivered update in Rose Garden.		20	1,389
Nov. 14		✓	28	1,210
Nov. 15		✓	32	623
Nov. 16	Had lunch with Mr. Pence.		19	796
Nov. 17			18	1,607
Nov. 18			19	1,923
Nov. 19			20	1,962
Nov. 20	Delivered remarks on prescription drug prices. Participated in virtual meeting with Asian leaders.		15	1,952
Nov. 21	Briefly participated in the virtual G20 summit.	✓	25	1,428
Nov. 22	Briefly participated in the virtual G20 summit.	✓	11	844
Nov. 23			4	1,032

Note: The public calendar includes the president’s entire public schedule for a day.

Mr. Trump also used Twitter twice to take care of personnel issues, firing the defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, and the top official in charge of election cybersecurity, Christopher Krebs. Mr. Krebs had systematically disputed Mr. Trump’s baseless claims that the presidency was stolen from him through fraudulent ballots and software glitches.

In a number of tweets, Mr. Trump said unequivocally but falsely that he won the election. His path to overturning the results of the election through the courts has all but vanished after a series of legal defeats in battleground states.

Sources: White House, state and county health departments, Trump Twitter Archive