This article was originally published by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
By the time the social media platform Twitter permanently suspended his account on Jan. 8, 2021, President Donald Trump had posted 2,520 tweets degrading journalists and the media as a whole.
The suspension came two days after Trump spoke at a rally in front of the White House and called on his supporters to march to the Capitol building in protest of Congress’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The march devolved into a riot as individuals stormed and infiltrated the building. Twitter cited “risk of further incitement of violence” and a pattern of behavior that violated the company’s rules in a statement explaining the decision.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker houses a database of Trump’s anti-media tweets that dates back to June 15, 2015, the date Trump declared his candidacy for president. According to our analysis of nearly 24,500 of Trump’s tweets across that time, 2,520 anti-press tweets means that he has, on average, tweeted negatively about the press more than once a day for the past 5 ½ years.