--- title: Trump Is Tweeting and Talking More in 2019: Report description: President Donald Trump is talking and tweeting more than he did in 2018, which was more than he did in 2017, CNN's reported Saturday. canonical: https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/ author: Madeleine Carlisle article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-21T15:55:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T07:25:04.536Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Donald Trump Is Talking Longer and Tweeting More Than in Past Years: Report og:description: Trump's tweeting has increased by 43% compared to last year og:url: https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f0d1353c56b89d6/698a0350096a94217c6a7044/trump-tweeting-talking-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump tweeting talking increase og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Donald Trump Is Talking Longer and Tweeting More Than in Past Years: Report twitter:description: Trump's tweeting has increased by 43% compared to last year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f0d1353c56b89d6/698a0350096a94217c6a7044/trump-tweeting-talking-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Donald Trump Is Talking Longer and Tweeting More Than in Past Years: Report  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Sep 21, 2019 3:55 PM UTC  President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Madeleine Carlisle](https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/)  ## Madeleine Carlisle Sep 21, 2019 3:55 PM UTC President Donald Trump is holding longer campaign rallies and tweeting more than he did in 2018, which was more than 2017, CNN’s Daniel Dale [reported Saturday](https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/21/politics/trump-unleashed-speaking-tweeting-more/index.html?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twCNNp&utm%5Fterm=image&utm%5Fcontent=2019-09-21T13%3A30%3A04). Trump’s tweeting has increased by 43% compared to last year — averaging about 83 tweets per week — and his retweeting has increased by 326%, according to data Dale gathered from the website [Factba.se.](https://factba.se/) In 2018, he tweeted about 58 times per week, a 91% increased compared to 2017. > [](https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1175386566807760896) According to Dale, Trump’s campaign rally speeches have been 26% longer in 2019 than they were in 2018\. They’ve extended from an average of around an hour and five minutes to an average of an hour and 22 minutes. Seven of Trump’s 10 longest rally speeches have happened in 2019. > [](https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1175387336881967109) > [](https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1175388512004296704) Dale reports Trump also appears on camera an average of 25 minutes more per week than he did last year — a 19% increase. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/"},"headline":"President Donald Trump Is Talking Longer and Tweeting More Than in Past Years: Report","datePublished":"2019-09-21T15:55:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T07:25:04.536Z","description":"Trump's tweeting has increased by 43% compared to last year","url":"https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/","keywords":["White House","trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f0d1353c56b89d6/698a0350096a94217c6a7044/trump-tweeting-talking-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeleine Carlisle","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f0d1353c56b89d6/698a0350096a94217c6a7044/trump-tweeting-talking-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump tweeting talking increase","caption":"trump tweeting talking increase","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5683193/trump-tweeting-talking-increase/","name":"President Donald Trump Is Talking Longer and Tweeting More Than in Past Years: Report"}}]}] ```