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The Multiple Voices of Donald Trump

@POTUS and @realDonaldTrump -- the voice of the Trump administration and the voice of Trump himself. Is their a difference between the two? And, if so, what characterizes that difference? The first question can be answered, quite easily, in the affirmative. The answer to the second question is, as the results from an analysis of @POTUS vs. @realDonaldTrump Tweets reveals, dependent on how one defines "difference." The Data The results found via the analysis discussed below are based off of a growing dataset composed of @POTUS and @realDonaldTrump Tweets. The earliest Tweets in the data date to February 16, 2017 with the most recent dated to March 6, 2017. [Note: the program I've been using to collect Tweets reports the time per Tweet several hours in advance of eastern standard time, so the most recent Tweet in the dataset is technically dated to March 7.] The Analysis I used several methods of text analysis to compare @POTUS to @realDonaldTrump Tweets. These incl