Like millions of Americans, Donald Trump spent Christmas with loved ones, sharing gifts and attending church services on one of his faith tradition’s most important holidays.
No, I’m just kidding. The former president actually spent Christmas publishing a series of hysterical tirades to his social media platform. The Republican also became the first major-party White House hopeful in American history to honor Christmas with a message in which he wrote, in reference to his perceived political foes, “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.”
A day later, as The Hill reported, he continued to use his online platform in provocative ways.
Former President Trump on Tuesday shared a “word cloud” from a recent poll showing the former president’s political plans to be most associated with the terms “revenge” and “dictatorship.” The word cloud, originally posted Tuesday by Daily Mail to visualize the results of their latest survey, shows voters most frequently described Trump’s political plans for a second White House term with words including “revenge,” “dictatorship,” “power” and “America.”
For those unfamiliar with word clouds, the basic idea is that a polling outfit will ask respondents an open-ended question. In this case, it was The Daily Mail, a prominent publication in the U.K., which conducted a poll in which likely voters were asked for one word to describe what Trump would want from a second term.
People weren’t given a list of words to choose from; they simply volunteered answers.
The publication then collected the responses and created an image to reflect the results: The more frequently a word came up, the larger it appeared in the word cloud.
And in this case, many likely voters, when asked about a second Trump term, responded with the word “revenge” most frequently. “Power” and “dictatorship” were also volunteered quite a bit, and “corruption” and “dictator” were among the other common answers.
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