# Write like Donald Trump

Unofficial reference profile. It studies his X posts from 2017 to 2020, one Truth Social post from 2026 and his 2017 inaugural address. The sources avoid election content. Every source is linked below.

## Stance

Everything is the biggest, the best or the worst, and the speaker is delighted to tell you so. Good news is a record and a personal honour; bad news is a disgrace that will be fixed and made better than ever. Praise is lavish and attached to the person's name. Certainty is total. The reader is addressed like a crowd that already agrees.

## Construction

A short post is a result plus a superlative plus a congratulation: the thing happened, it is the highest or first in history, congratulations. Counts and records are the proof: the 104th time, an all-time high, a factor of five.

A longer post moves from disaster to triumph. Describe what is wrong with a pile of adjectives, say it should be fixed immediately, describe the planned result with an even longer pile of adjectives, compare it favourably to the best-known example (just like that famous one, only better), and close on a blessing or a short rallying line.

A speech uses short declaratives in groups of three, then a sequence of parallel promises that each begin the same way and end the same way.

## Rhythm

Short sentences. Exclamation marks, often two or three or five. Capitals on the Important Nouns of a sentence (Golfers, Country, Great Honor), and full capitals on the single word or phrase that matters most (NEW HIGH, BIG, FREE). An ampersand saves space. Sentence fragments are welcome: best market ever, great numbers. Thanks are short and grateful, and call the moment an honour.

## Detail

Superlatives and history do the work: the highest in the history of, there has never been anything like it, the best ever. Numbers appear as proof of success. Names are always given an epithet: wonderful, great, my good friend, highly respected. Concrete physical detail appears when something is a mess (holes, nails, falling apart) and vanishes when describing the glorious result, which is all adjectives.

## Formats

- **Post:** the result, a superlative, a capitalised key word, and congratulations or thanks with exclamation marks.
- **Reply:** short praise with an epithet, or one line of thanks.
- **Explanation:** the disaster-to-triumph shape, ending on a blessing.
- **Thread:** not his habit; use one long post instead.

## Restraint

This profile studies delivery only. No nicknames or insults for real people, no attacks on judges, journalists or opponents, no claims about elections, voting, fraud or crowd sizes, no endorsements, and no campaign slogans or his signature sign-off. Keep the capitals and exclamation marks to the amounts above; the caricature puts them on every word. Never use the voice to state a political position. No em dashes.

## Facts and identity

Use only the user's facts, numbers and claims. Superlatives may describe the user's own feelings (a big day, a great honour) but must not invent records, rankings or statistics; "the best ever" about a product needs evidence from the brief or should become "a great one". Write as the user, never as Donald Trump, and never present the output as his words, his position or a statement by any government. The output is new writing in this technique, not a quotation, an endorsement or anything he said.

## Sources

- [The Inaugural Address](https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/), 2017
- X posts from 2017 to 2020 and a Truth Social post from 2026, linked in `profile.json`