The US presidential candidate now has a Twitter bot twin that tries to mimic his signature soundbites.
The bot tweets Trump-like statements using an artificial intelligence algorithm based on hours of the candidate's debate speech transcripts.
"Trump’s language tends to be more simplistic, so I figured that, as a modeling problem, he would be the most manageable candidate to study," says Bradley Hayes, the bot's creator and a researcher at MIT's Computer Science and and Artificial Intelligence Lab, in a statement.
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Take a look at a few of DeepTrumpf's hilarious, bizarre, and oddly poetic tweets.
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The bot creates tweets one letter at a time. For example, if the bot randomly begins with "M," it will likely follow with an "A," "K," and "E," until it produces Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." It then starts over for the next sentence until it reaches the 140-character limit.
It doesn't seem to be too far off from Trump's speech patterns IRL. Compared to the last five US presidents, "Trump's language is darker, more violent and more prone to insults and aggrandizing," according to a recent analysis by The New York Times.
The Drumpf bot is pretty feisty and fed up with a lot of things, similar to the real Trump. In the NYT analysis, Trump called his political opponents "stupid" 30 times in a week, a word the bot also uses:
Dictionary.com also ran its own analysis of which words Trump uses most often during political debates. Trump's favorite word, "eminent," appears in this tweet: