Helsinki Summit

Trump's Helsinki Surrender: How Twitter Reacted

With the fallout from Donald Trump's disastrous summit with Vladimir Putin showing no signs of abating, the president reversed his remark about Russian interference in the 2016 election. He said he accepts the the conclusion of intelligence agencies that Russian meddling did take place, saying he had misspoken on Monday.

Unfortunately for Trump, the damage is done. An Ipsos analysis of the first 600,000 U.S. tweets mentioning Trump and Putin during and after their summit in Helsinki documented an overwhelmingly negative reaction. The following infographic breaks down the main themes of the Twitter conversations, showing that 21 percent of them were disapproving of Trump, 9 percent were about treason and 6 percent were about the president and Russian intelligence agencies.

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This chart shows the main themes of Twitter conversations after Trump's performance in Helsinki.

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Distribution of tweets mentioning selected countries published in Ukraine from February 24 to June 30, 2022, by sentiment
Number of posts on X/Twitter that mentioned the word "nuclear" between February 2022 and October 2022, by sentiment
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Average happiness score of tweets in the Russian language from January 1, 2021 to June 1, 2023
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Average sentiment score of online news articles mentioning Vladimir Putin from 2017 to 2024, by selected country
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How concerned are you that Trump or others involved with his 2016 presidential campaign had inappropriate contacts with the Russian government?
Average number of Twitter engagements of online articles featuring pro-Kremlin Ukraine-related narratives worldwide from December 16, 2021 to February 24, 2022, by narrative and article type

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