Maggie Haberman Says ‘Even Trump’s Hardest-Core Base’ Isn’t Reading His Truth Social Posts Much

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told an interviewer that former President Donald Trump’s posts on his Truth Social platform aren’t widely read “even by his hardest-core base.”

Trump is a frequent poster to his Truth Social platform. While it lasts.

Those posts usually take the form of text rants with copious use of ALL CAPS WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS about things like “STOLLEN” elections. But Trump also sometimes posts brief video rants shot at one of his golf properties that are remarkable in their ability to recreate the elements of those text rants.

Haberman — whose reporting Trump is known to pore over — was the guest on an episode of Jamie Weinstein’s The Dispatch Podcast this week, and casually knocked down Trump’s social media influence when Weinstein asked if Trump’s posts were “strategy or is this just him venting?”:

JAMIE WEINSTEIN: How does he do these two social posts? Is this a strategy or is this just him venting? And who’s writing them? Is he dictating them? Is he learning how to? Because he typed on the phone the post-acute social himself. How does that actually work?

MAGGIE HABERMAN: So for one of the earlier indictments, it is kind of remarkable that there were four in fairly rapid succession between the months of March and August earlier this year.

For one of the first two. And I don’t remember which one it was, it might have been the June one, which was federal. He he typed out the social post himself announcing that he had been he had been told he was indicted. You know, this became yet another information stream that he tried to control. Right. I mean, he was sort of choreographing and narrating everything about his own life. He likes to be the only subject matter expert on Donald Trump.

And so he used his social to do it. And that one I know was one that he had written out himself. Some of these late-night ones are ones that he does himself. Some of them are ones. I’m told that Dan Scavino, his longtime digital aide who was in the White House with him, who was a golf caddie years ago at Trump’s Westchester Golf Club, he types up a bunch of them and he, I think, pre-sets them. So they go off at some preset time.

So it’s it’s some combination. And that is, Jamie, how it worked in the White House. Right. Trump was sometimes tweeting at one of the morning. Sometimes other people were drafting tweets and presenting them to him and then they would all agree on them. It’s not it’s not that different. The volume is different. There’s just so many of them. And I don’t, that I have not been able to figure out what accounts for it.

JAMIE WEINSTEIN: And is it, can you tell us it’s strategy or venting? I mean, is this something that he needs almost like therapy to to get his anger out? Or is this a strategy to rally his base?

MAGGIE HABERMAN: I think sometimes it’s a strategy, although, again, I don’t think too many people are reading Truth Social, even among his hardest-core base. And sometimes it’s venting. You know, I mean, he he he writes about all manner of things. He is a little freer on this side of his own than he was on Twitter. But when he was on Twitter, he was president. He only was reinstated to Twitter recently. And I think that he was a little more restrained because of the office than he certainly is now.

Watch above via The Dispatch Podcast.