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Trump’s Overnight Truth Social Blitz Sparks Psychologists’ ‘Pathological Certainty’ Warning

4/28/2026

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President Donald Trump posted 24 times on Truth Social between 6 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday.
He has accumulated nearly 7,000 Truth Social posts in the past year.
Psychologists say the nocturnal posting reflects a compulsive need for validation and enables him to act without advisers, labeling the pattern “pathological certainty.”
Truth Social, with about 6 million monthly users, amplifies his messages while poll numbers show growing public frustration.

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President Donald Trump posted 24 times on Truth Social between 6 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday.
He has accumulated nearly 7,000 Truth Social posts in the past year.
Psychologists say the nocturnal posting reflects a compulsive need for validation and enables him to act without advisers, labeling the pattern “pathological certainty.”
Truth Social, with about 6 million monthly users, amplifies his messages while poll numbers show growing public frustration.