How to Track Trump's Truth Social Posts in Real Time (2026 Guide)

The speed ladder

For casual following, the free tiers are fine. For prediction markets the difference between 300ms and 30 seconds is the whole game, odds on the relevant Polymarket/Kalshi markets typically finish moving within the first minute. There is also now an official institutional lane: Trump Media's Truth API, announced July 16, 2026, streams the platform's top 10 trending accounts to licensed financial-services partners from August 1, 2026. It is not self-serve, and it does not cover arbitrary accounts.

The push setup (no code)

1. Subscribe to the Truth Social monitoring feed and add @realDonaldTrump (and any other accounts, cabinet members, campaign accounts, journalists) to your tracked list.
2. Link the built-in Telegram or Discord bot to your chat/server, posts arrive as formatted cards the moment they are detected, retruths and quote chains included.
3. Optional: add the news feed in the same stream, a post corroborated by a matching headline within seconds is a much stronger trading signal than either alone.

The bot setup (Python, ~25 lines)

import asyncio, json, os
import websockets

API_KEY = os.environ["API_KEY"]
WS_URL = os.environ["WS_URL"]      # from your dashboard api-access page
WATCH = {"realdonaldtrump"}        # lowercase handles you care about


async def run():
    while True:
        try:
            async with websockets.connect(
                WS_URL, additional_headers={"X-Api-Key": API_KEY}
            ) as ws:
                async for raw in ws:
                    e = json.loads(raw)
                    if e.get("platform") != "truth":
                        continue
                    if str(e.get("handle", "")).lower() not in WATCH:
                        continue
                    kind = "RETRUTH" if e.get("isRepost") else "POST"
                    print(f"[{e['timestamp']}] {kind}: {e.get('content', '')[:200]}")
                    # -> place order / send alert / match against your markets
        except Exception as exc:
            print(f"reconnecting ({exc})")
            await asyncio.sleep(1)


asyncio.run(run())

Same consumer pattern works for every platform, ready-made examples: truthsocial-stream on GitHub. Background on the official institutional Truth API, why there is still no public developer API, and what scrapers can/can't do: the complete Truth Social API guide.

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