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

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

Trump Tweets Per Day

Tweets about election fraud

Other tweets

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.


Source: Elections - nytimes.com

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