Trump’s Dark Social Media Posts a Relief for Campaign: ‘It Limits Public Reach,’ Says Insider

Donald Trump’s chances for reelection in 2024 could take a severe hit if moderate voters became aware of the troubling content he shares on Truth Social, a senior campaign official revealed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday.

The anonymous source expressed that Trump’s team feels “consistently relieved, for the sake of their 2024 campaign,” that the broader public has not yet caught on to the QAnon conspiracy theories and authoritarian rhetoric that the former president frequently posts on his social media platform, according to Rolling Stone.

“It limits the public reach and media attention that these kinds of posts receive, as Trump is trying to appeal to moderate and swing voters in the final months of the election,” the insider explained. The official suggested that if Trump were still using X, formerly known as Twitter, as his primary social media platform, his more “unhelpful” posting sprees would gain more public attention and dominate news cycles, potentially damaging his campaign.

The Trumpworld insider shared these concerns on the same day Trump unleashed a barrage of posts that included QAnon messaging, false claims about the 2020 election, and a sexist attack on Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Among these posts was a veiled threat to imprison his political adversaries.

According to the progressive watchdog Media Matters, Trump promoted QAnon—a conspiracy theory that claims Trump is fighting against a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles in positions of power—at least 15 times on Wednesday morning alone. One particularly offensive post featured an image of Clinton and Harris with the caption, “Funny how blowjobs impacted both of their careers differently.”

Trump has repeatedly been urged by his Republican allies to limit his attacks on Harris to policy issues, yet these posts continue to appear as he faces new legal challenges. The former president is currently under indictment by special counsel Jack Smith, whom Trump depicted with red eyes and black horns in a recent post, further intensifying the controversy surrounding his social media activity.

Rolling Stone drew a connection between Trump’s recent online behavior and his campaign’s instability, noting that Wednesday’s posting frenzy is just one of several public outbursts he has had in recent weeks. These outbursts have occurred since Biden exited the race, leaving Harris as the presumptive nominee. The magazine concluded, “It’s clear at this point that those around Trump are regularly doing damage control to keep him happy.”