Trump's tweets since he was elected president: A complete breakdown

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A year after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, there is one thing we know for sure: nothing will stop his tweets (except maybe the occasional customer support employee).

And, according to data from the Trump Twitter Archive, his tweeting habit is getting worse.

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As of Sunday, Trump had tweeted a staggering 2,444 times since election day in 2016. Since July, when we last checked on his Twitter account, he has tweeted 1,027 times.

That means that more than 40 percent of the tweets he sent since he was elected went out in the past three months.

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The reality star-turned-commander-in-chief tweeted frequently during his presidential campaign, often hurling nickname-laced insults at his opponents. And the incessant tweeting didn't stop when his presidential duties started either.

In the first six months of his presidency, Trump sent out over 1,000 tweets (and passed no major legislation). That's about 5.7 tweets per day. That actually marked a 45 percent decreasefrom the amount he tweeted in the six months prior to the election. But over the last three months, he's been tweeting about 9.5 times per day.

Here's a breakdown of what, exactly, he's been tweeting about.

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A gathering tweetstorm

In the past three months, POTUS has tweeted 288 times a month on average, way up from his average this year of about 214 per month. In September, he reached a presidential high at 307 total tweets.

Only three days have gone by without a word from Trump on Twitter since he became president.

The tweet count dipped below 200 in February, and remained low until June when it shot up above 200 again and continued to rise by the month.

He has sent out about seven tweets per day for the year on average. Only three days have gone by without a word from Trump on Twitter since he became president.

But Trump is known for his tweetstorms. He tweeted a total of 26 times on Sept. 30, mostly attacking the mayor of San Juan and defending his administration's efforts to help Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Trump's September tweet-surge was also, in part, due to his public display of disdain for the NFL protests against police brutality inspired by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Trump mentioned "NFL" 16 times, "anthem" 15 times, and "flag" 9 times in his Twitter tirades against athletes who chose to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner."

It's not like the president had a lot of spare time to get in Twitter wars with professional athletes. In the same month, massive hurricanes hit Puerto Rico and Florida, leaving devastation in their path.

An obsession with Hillary Clinton ...

For a guy who has been president for almost 10 months now, Trump sure likes to talk about his 2016 election opponent a lot.

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In the year since election day, 54 of Trump's tweets have mentioned "Hillary." He has averaged about four tweets about the Democratic presidential nominee per month, dropping below average for just a few months in the spring.

He tweeted most about Hillary Clinton in July, the very same month that Don Jr. was busted for lying about taking a meeting with a Russian lawyer. The president, of course, saw the matter a little differently.

... and Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton isn't the only nemesis that Trump regularly attacks online.

With Twitter, Trump can now hurl insults at Obama from behind his keyboard whenever he pleases. Since the election last November, Trump has mentioned "Obama" (including the phrase "Obamacare") in his tweets 132 times.

Despite having their differences in the past (like that time Trump accused Obama of not being born in the U.S.), things started off pretty smoothly after the election.

But it didn't take too long for Trump to go right back to attacking basically everything Obama has ever done.

And let's not forget the wiretapping accusation that left the intelligence community with their faces in their palms.

Based on his hundreds of tweets about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, it seems like President Trump might be a little stuck in the past.

"Fake news"

When he's not trashing Obama, Trump loves to talk about "fake news." So much so, that he claims he invented the phrase. He didn't.

In fact, his first tweet on the matter didn't come until December 2016 with a virtual attack on CNN.

Although Trump has mentioned CNN the most (19 times) in his 127 tweets about "fake news," he thinks a lot of other news organizations are phony as well.

Next in Trump's "fake news" ranking is NBC News with 12 tweets, followed by the "failing" New York Timeswith 11. ABC News, CBS News, and the "Amazon" Washington Postfollow.

But not every news network has fallen out of favor with Trump. He has tweeted about Fox News 152 times since being elected president.

These tweets promote Fox's coverage and often plug his own appearances on the network.

Deleted tweets

Not even presidents have an "edit tweet" function. Although Trump's tweet count surpasses 36,000, he's deleted his fair share of tweets as well.

Since becoming president, Trump has deleted 74 tweets, according to the Factbase archive. So he thinks 97 percent of his tweets are keepers. Out of the discarded digital musings, more than 30 of them contained typos and/or other errors.

Trump may want us to forget about these tweets, but luckily this archive (and anyone who has ever screenshotted a presidential post) has receipts.

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Factbase suspects that about 27 of these tweets were sent out by Trump's staff, meaning that most of them (including "covfefe") were sent by the commander-in-chief himself.

It appears that the president's Twitter is just as bombastic, unrestrained (minus a few deleted tweets here and there), and full of attacks as ever.

As long as he continues to have unlimited tweeting privileges and a whole lot of grudges, Trump will probably keep tweeting.

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