Excursion to the bizarre world of Trump: Tossed off Twitter, back on X

Before Elon Musk purchased Twitter and renamed it X, Donald Trump posted there incessantly, frequently to bully, harass, insult, name-call, demean, and harm his enemies--and he seemed to count anyone who may have failed to endorse all his claims and ideas as his dire threat enemy. Twitter blocked him, ending his account because of his bullying and provable lies. 

Features of cyberbullying include the targeted person's knowledge of both the permanence of posts and that the posts can be shared (Bingaman & Caplan, 2023). Thus, even if deep emotional harm is not the immediate intent of the sender, it operates as a harm to various degrees on its targets. For cyberbullies, that is either the endgame goal or an additional benefit, but for those who engage in this sort of cyber-behavior over time, it indicates a knowledge and even satisfaction from the targeted person's pain.

While it is true that cyberbullying as generally studied by psychological researchers is focused on adolescent bullies and adolescent targets, it is telling that Trump fits right in, with the possible research protocol anomaly that he seems to have so many transitory targets that his quantitative spread shows insufficient repetitive attacks on one target to classify him as an official cyberbully (Bingaman & Caplan, 2023). Unofficially and in real world analysis, his cyberbullying is unprecedented in many respects. Certainly no US president has ever communicated in such a fashion.

References

Bingaman, J., & Caplan, S. E. (2023). Cyberbully-in-chief: exploring Donald Trump’s aggressive communication behavior on Twitter. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 31(4), 342–353. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/10.1080/15456870.2022.2047683