Scaramucci says Trump tweets because he doesn't feel 'defended in the mainstream media' — here's what he tweets about

There's some truth to Tapper's statement. In the 920 tweets posted on President Trump's twitter account between January 20 and July 7, 99 were about the Russia investigation. As we go forward, it will be interesting to see if, as Scaramucci suggested, Trump will "dial back some of those tweets."

President Trump has tweeted 920 times between his inauguration on January 20 and July 7, making for an average of about 5.4 tweets per day.

This chart shows a timeline of how often the president has tweeted on each day since the inauguration. Each dot represents one tweet.

The president has been tweeting somewhat more often since the end of May, after a two-week period in the middle of that month when he was uncharacteristically quiet online.

On each of the following charts, we will take a closer look at when the president tweets and some of his favorite topics and themes, as determined by Business Insider's reading of the tweets' text.

Trump has only avoided tweeting on two days: April 15 and June 8. He tweeted the most on June 22 — 16 times, to be exact.

The president often starts his day on Twitter. 130 of Trump's tweets between Inauguration Day and July 7 were posted between 7 and 8 a.m. ET.

About 41% of Trump's tweets have been posted between 5 and 9 a.m., according to the timestamps provided at the Trump Twitter Archive.

Although Trump tweets more frequently on weekdays than on weekends, several of his most inflammatory posts have come on Saturdays.

For example, an infamous set of tweets accusing former President Obama of "tapping wires" in Trump Tower were posted early on a Saturday morning.

Trump has tweeted about the media 113 times, and has posted 57 tweets containing "fake news."

One of Trump's favorite foils, both on the campaign trail and since taking office, has been the media. The tone of the president's tweets on the press tend to have a negative edge, and often include the epithet "FAKE NEWS," as in this January 28 tweet aimed at the New York Times:

There have been 2 notable recent Twitter outbursts from POTUS against the media. One was on June 29, when he went after Mika Brzezinski.

The second was on July 2, when he tweeted a WWE clip of him body slamming "CNN."

The video of a 2007 Trump WWE appearance was doctored to make it appear that the president was attacking a man whose head was superimposed with the CNN logo:

Trump has also tweeted a whole lot about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, with 99 tweets on the topic.

Another recurring target of the president's ire on Twitter is the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the election and into any possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Despite the intelligence community's near-unanimous assertions that Russia did in fact attempt to influence the outcome of the election, Trump frequently asserts that the investigation is merely a distraction by embarassed Democrats trying to shift blame for losing. An early example is this February 15 tweet, published a day after a New York Times report suggesting that members of the president's campaign had repeated contacts with Russian agents:

Several tweets came between May 8 and May 10, amid key developments in the investigations.

On May 8, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified at a Senate Judiciary hearing about contacts between Trump campaign aide and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador to the US

On May 9, Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey.

The day he fired the FBI director was a fairly quiet day for the president's Twitter account, with only three tweets published. Trump did, in a theme that he would repeat over the following days, suggest that Democrats, who had previously criticized Comey for his handling of the Clinton email investigation, were hypocrites for speaking out against the director's firing:

More tweets on Russia and related matters came after Comey's June 8 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Trump's initial response the day after the former FBI director testified suggested that he felt "vindicated" by the testimony, and again bringing attention to his concerns with leaks:

He has also tweeted a fair amount about leaks and surveillance — about 38 times.

Overlapping with the Russia investigation is the president's concern about leaks and surveillance. On February 15, the day after the New York Times report on Trump campaign aides having contact with Russian agents, the president tweeted:

One of President Trump's more infamous tweets came on March 4, where he accused his predecessor of illegally spying on Trump Tower during the campaign.

The president also likes to tout his domestic agenda on Twitter. Since inauguration, he has posted 98 tweets on the economy, jobs, and his signature issue of trade.

Tweets about the economy include descriptions of meetings with top executives:

Trump also sometimes tweets out economic figures, such as the monthly ADP private-sector jobs report.

One of Trump's signature campaign issues was trade. He's criticized US trading partners, like Mexico,

And China,

And even Canada.

Healthcare and the Republican push to repeal and replace Obamacare are another frequent topic, with 98 tweets.

One of the core promises of the Trump campaign and of the Republican Party more broadly over the last four election cycles was to repeal and replace Obamacare. There are three main clusters of Trump tweets that pertain to healthcare, going along with big congressional pushes.

The first came in mid-to-late March, during the House's first, ultimately failed, attempt to pass the American Healthcare Act. The second was in late April and early May, when the bill successfully passed the House, and the third has coincided with the recent push to pass a bill through the Senate.

Many of Trump's tweets on healthcare decry the current law:

Others, especially during the failed March push to pass a bill in the House, criticized Republican holdouts.

During the current attempt to pass a bill in the Senate, Trump has tweeted frustration with Democrats, who remain uniformly opposed to Republican plans.

Another core issue in the 2016 election was immigration. President trump has tweeted 74 times on topics related to immigration, including his proposed border wall with Mexico and his ban on immigration from several majority-Muslim countries.

One of the ways Trump distinguished himself from other candidates in the Republican primary was taking an extremely hard line on immigration. In his speech announcing his candidacy, Trump said that Mexico was "

The president also sometimes tweets about the border wall with Mexico, and about how that country will pay for its construction and upkeep.

On the foreign policy side, President Trump often tweets about phone calls and visits from foreign leaders, and his two overseas trips so far have led to several tweets about foreign policy. Between his inauguration and July 7, Trump tweeted 83 times about his interactions with foreign leaders.

The tone of tweets about talking to foreign leaders tends to be fairly cordial:

Similarly, the president tends to take a positive tone when announcing meetings with world leaders at the White House or his Mar-a-Lago Florida golf club.

President Trump's May trip to the US and Europe tended to have similarly optimistic tweets.

Here's a summary of how often Trump has tweeted about some of his most common topics.

Of course, this is not a comprehensive description of all of the president's tweets. Further, several tweets fall into more than one category. For example, this tweet, referring to a retracted CNN story about an alleged meeting between Trump supporter Anthony Scaramucci and representatives of a Russian bank, is included in both the media and Russia investigation categories:

In the early months of his presidency, as during the campaign, most of Trump's tweets came from an Android phone. By mid-March, nearly all tweets came from an iPhone.

Last August, data scientist David Robinson took a close look at the iPhone-Android tweet divide. He observed, through text analysis of the tweets, that the angrier, more inflammatory tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account tended to be posted from the Android Twitter app, while tweets from an iPhone were more neutral or positive.

A common interpretation of the differences in voice from the different devices was that Trump himself was tweeting from his own personal Android device, while campaign staff were posting from one or more iPhones.

That divide held true for the first two months of Trump's presidency. Trump's more aggressive tweets came from an Android device:

While tweets from an iPhone tended to be more benign:

Of course, many of the tweets from an Android device were also straightforward statements and announcements:

A handful of President Trump's tweets have come from other platforms, like the Twitter Web Client, Twitter Ads, and Media Studio.

These tend to be fairly neutral statements touting recent accomplishments or speeches, and generally include a video clip of an event or speech. For example, here's the president announcing a plan to reform the air traffic control system posted from Twitter Ads:

But by March, the Android device had been phased out.

As the chart above shows, the Android device mostly vanishes in mid-March, with the final two tweets coming on March 25. The Atlantic, among others, speculated that Trump's personal Android device was too old to be properly secured, and that it was replaced around this time with an iPhone. Whatever happened, the tweets keep coming.

Scaramucci says Trump tweets because he doesn't feel 'defended in the mainstream media' — here's what he tweets about

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