Donald Trump Tweets, May 2009 to December 2016

Trump Tweets, 5/4/09 - 12/5/16, compiled by the data.world user lovesdata: 30,078 tweets from 2009-05-04 to 2016-12-05 with the date, time, text, the Twitter client used (as recorded, 19 values) and a simplified client (4 values). The archive also holds the later update of 27 January 2017 (30,385 tweets, 307 more than the first file and none fewer), a small file of the 297 tweets from 5 December 2016 to 27 January 2017 that has tweet IDs and UTC times, and a table of 482,435 words with their order in 30,078 tweets and three flags. The text of the tweets is by Donald Trump, per the title of the data.world dataset; the compiler's description says the data include the original client data and recoded client data.

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30,078 records scored

client labelavg 0.70 / 3
0std 0.813
8.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
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Topic clusters

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mar
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Topic 9

golf
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military

Topic 11

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mexican
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Topic 14

cruz
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Topic 15

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enjoy
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discuss
howard
stern
week

Topic 16

republicans
romney
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party
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paul
self
candidate

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hate
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wrong
mobile
stupid
sorry
apologize

Topic 18

crowd
hampshire
rally
carolina
south
big
new
amazing

Topic 19

magazine
reporter
dishonest
story
apologize
write
fail
irrelevant

Topic 20

wind
turbine
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farm
ugly
destroy

Topic 21

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young
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victorious
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Topic 27

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gallon

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love

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friends
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minute
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Topic 32

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lead
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new
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movement

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dan
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nick
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andy
andrew

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video
online
merchandise
visit

Topic 35

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schneiderman
interview
eric
lightweight
primary
gop
housing

Topic 36

debate
poll
drudge
moderator
night
win
newsmax
etc

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art
deal
book
read
good
business
insight
worth

Topic 38

billionaire
estate
market
real
buyer
buy
property
think

Topic 39

true
sadly
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ask

Topic 40

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inspiration
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inspirational
man
everyday

Topic 41

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happy
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wish
retweet
bday
arnold
friend

Topic 42

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quality
happy
know

Topic 43

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Topic 45

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nice

Topic 48

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district
time
argue

Topic 49

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balance
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terrible

Topic 51

iran
nuclear
deal
sanction
nuke
iranian
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threat

Topic 52

book
copy
crippled
sign
signing
timetogettough
gift
order

Topic 53

poll
carson
lead
fiorina
trump
rubio
gop
cruz

Topic 54

makeamericagreatagain
americafirst
thank
nevada
california
support
america
soon

Topic 55

run
beat
mario
change
announce
hope
fast
easy

Topic 56

wow
good
amazing
damn
nice
legend
unbelievable
reality

Topic 57

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caucusfortrump
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crowd
des
moines
sioux
cedar

Topic 58

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thank
heidi
nathalie
terry
susan
megan
appreciate

Topic 59

cnn
tweet
debate
tonight
live
request
cnndebate
twitter

Topic 60

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run
need
honestly
rescue
pre
business
man

Topic 61

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father
mary
trump
macleod
advice
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president

Topic 62

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celebrity
favorite
star
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fire
shawn
johnson

Topic 63

isis
laden
bin
benghazi
cia
kill
waterboarding
behead

Topic 64

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memorial
vet
veterans
hero
military
care
day

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big
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mind
possibility
momentum
thinking
focused

Topic 66

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trump
think
know
union
lecture
sheer
persistence

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president
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announce
candidacy
presidency

Topic 68

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ronald
actor
bless
hollywood
lifetime
heat
god

Topic 69

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vaccine
child
shot
autism
massive
vaccination
spread

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ticket
tomorrow
ohio
maga
cincinnati
toledo
wednesday

Topic 71

charity
money
sue
lawyer
accept
lawsuit
beck
legal

Topic 72

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morning
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aaa
olympic
proud

Topic 73

macy
tie
shirt
suit
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macys
cufflink
beautiful

Topic 74

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buffalo
tom
bills
quarterback
owner
buy
jim

Topic 75

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like
positive
book
strategy
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problem

Topic 76

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rule
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golden
deal
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desperate
possibly

Topic 77

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superbowl

Topic 78

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spending
regulation
business

Topic 79

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hard
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job
creator
prosperous

Topic 80

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thank
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election
ballot

Topic 81

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jeter
captain
game
team
playoff
mariano
rivera

Topic 82

tie
shirt
cufflink
wear
compliment
quality
selection
buy

Topic 83

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yankees
contract
steinbrenner
drug
long
hip
druggie

Topic 84

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president
george
bush
dammit
correct
speed
redistribute

Topic 85

afghanistan
taliban
bergdahl
waste
troop
rebuild
afghan
soldier

Topic 86

trumpvlog
today
answer
question
thought
tweet
trumptuesday
blog

Topic 87

michigan
ohio
indiana
delaware
thank
county
rhode
movement

Topic 88

enforcement
officer
law
police
nypd
prayer
commissioner
safe

Topic 89

apple
screen
lance
armstrong
steve
iphone
jobs
large

Topic 90

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tonight
video
blog
finale
answer
coach
question

Topic 91

collection
signature
tie
shirt
exclusively
serta
mattress
available

Topic 92

america
great
hesitate
staggering
shall
influence
bravo
savvy

Topic 93

politician
hypocrite
governor
political
domain
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eminent
clown

Topic 94

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thank
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brilliant
roxanne
plug
theartofthedeal

Topic 95

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trump
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fool
cuban
donaldtrump
ignore

Topic 96

wrestlemania
sign
mcmahon
vince
history
wwe
fellow
shave
Top hashtags
#trump2016914
#makeamericagreatagain557
#celebapprentice297
#celebrityapprentice152
#1117
#trump113
#maga105
#timetogettough101
#americafirst85
#trumpvlog83
#draintheswamp78
#trumpforpresident77
#votetrump76
#imwithyou62
#bigleaguetruth58
#debate51
#201646
#crookedhillary43
#trumptrain43
#gopdebate42
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  • Twitter for Android14.2K (47.2%)
  • Twitter Web Client12.1K (40.3%)
  • Twitter for iPhone2.3K (7.8%)
  • Other1.4K (4.7%)
Tweets per day
0501001502002009-05-042011-08-132012-08-012013-05-272014-02-102014-10-302015-07-182016-03-302016-12-05DayTweets

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
trump-tweets-2009-2016
Authors
Brown, Brendan
Year
2016
Source paper
Trump Twitter Archive
License
Public domain (as stated by the data.world uploader) (LicenseRef-PublicDomain)
Records
30,078
Nodes are
unknown
Edges are
unknown
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2009-05-04 to 2016-12-05 (2000s, 2010s)
Tasks
Text classification (multi-class; client_label) inferred
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://www.thetrumparchive.com/ link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-20, 23.1 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (30,078 rows), x_tweets_2017_01_28 (30,385 rows), x_tweets_1205_127 (297 rows), x_words (482,435 rows).
Structure
Text

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{brown2016trump,
  title        = {Trump Twitter Archive},
  author       = {Brown, Brendan},
  year         = {2016},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.thetrumparchive.com/}}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Brown, B. (2016). Donald Trump Tweets, May 2009 to December 2016 [Data set]. https://trump-tweets-2009-2016.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Brown, Brendan. Donald Trump Tweets, May 2009 to December 2016. 2016, trump-tweets-2009-2016.echo.directory/.

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