President Donald Trump has a pattern of signing off on social media posts with his full name and title, regardless of what the rest of the post is talking about.
Sometimes he posts about tariffs and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D); other times, he’s celebrating the military or Supreme Court rulings, or ranting about the war in Iran.
But no matter the topic, Trump is likely to sign off on a message on Truth Social with “DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES” or “President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Using the RollCall database, HuffPost estimates that Trump has signed his Truth Social posts “President DONALD J. TRUMP” roughly 68 times since June 29 and with “DJT” at least 101 times since May 29.
Deborah Tannen, a distinguished linguistics professor at Georgetown University and author of the bestseller “You Just Don’t Understand,” initially compared the sign-off to letter-writing conventions, with formal opening and closing greetings that people sometimes use in text messages, too, when reaching out to someone new or asking for a favor.
