It's an Aaron Rupar double-feature today! As I reported earlier on Monday, serial fabulist Rupar said that President Donald Trump's Truth Social post announcing his deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz couldn't be ruled out as a threat that he was going to use nuclear weapons on Iran. Trump said he would target Iran's bridges and power plants … we don't think he needs nukes to do that.
As we also reported earlier, pollster Nate Silver seemed to think that "the ecosystem is broken" on X because the accounts that get the most engagement are mostly right-wing. You can see Aaron Rupar in blue, tucked away beneath Libs of TikTok and MAGA Voice.
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken. pic.twitter.com/zHrS7T0iVD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2026
The Times of London decided to do a profile on Rupar, and the most interesting revelation was seeing a recent photo of Rupar vs. the one he's used as his X avatar forever. I guess the "psychological demands" of watching Trump all day have made his hair fall out.
The Times on Aaron Rupar:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 6, 2026
"The man who watches Trump all day, every day"
"Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president"
"The psychological demands of Aaron Rupar’s work are immense." pic.twitter.com/rzE0oct2Np
George Grylls reports from Washington:
The psychological demands of Aaron Rupar’s work are immense. He counts himself lucky to have remained more or less healthy after a decade in his job.
“I certainly wouldn’t say that I’m like a model of mental health,” says the father-of-two from Minnesota. “But for the most part, especially considering what I do and how much time I spend doing it, I think I’ve been able to emerge relatively unscathed.”
Rupar works from his spare room in his Minneapolis house. His job is to watch President Trump. All day, every day.
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“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” says Rupar. “That’s kind of how people are trained to do political journalism. It’s like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy, what’s new?’ So you kind of pick up those things and convey them to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch his rallies, you see that they’re full of hatred, he’s lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent.”
Grylls reports that Rupar "clips videos of Trump’s noteworthy remarks and shares them instantly on social media." Those who know Rupar know that, yes, he does "clip" videos of Trump's remarks, usually removing important context. That's what gained him an entry into the Urban Dictionary as a verb.
He doesn't even put out anything good. His attacks are weak. I hit Biden harder spending about 30 minutes a day on it.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 6, 2026
What a sad existence.
— JWF (@JammieWF) April 6, 2026
Not as immense as the psychological demands of us having to put up with Aaron Rupar.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 6, 2026
My favorite Rupar moment was the time he claimed other people using his videos is “stolen valor” pic.twitter.com/TVRLykDeU6
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) April 6, 2026
Lmao. Aaron Rupar is trying to play the victim by saying he spends 80 hours a week sitting at home tracking Trump…
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 6, 2026
… while ALSO saying that Trump is riddled with dementia and is hiding from the media
These leftists have a REALLY hard time keeping their stories straight 🤣
Lol this is the saddest article I’ve ever read.
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMacklin_FBI) April 6, 2026
“Rupar’d” is part of the 𝕏 lexicon. Just not in the way Aaron would like 🤣
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 6, 2026
Just think, if he had tracked Joe Biden, he’d only have to work 2 hours a day. Bad job choice. President Trump works for us 24/7.
— Yvonne (@yvonnetcp) April 6, 2026
And still @atrupar gets it wrong?
— AAE (@AAC0519) April 6, 2026
Do they talk about how he selectively edits clips to make people look bad?
— Josh (@JoshWeber2) April 6, 2026
Aaron Rupar is in Minnesota. His weird behavior starts to make more sense to me now. He lives in a bubble of people who think his behavior is normal.
— A Goat (@GoatIsTalking) April 6, 2026
Does the story mention how he deceptively edits videos and then pretends he did no such thing?
— Kamala's Kackle (@FakeNominee) April 6, 2026
No wonder he is a sad, sad mentally ill little man who edits videos to reverse the meaning of what actually happened.
— Walter Grokite (@buddyperdue) April 7, 2026
He's the guy who created the "fine people" hoax that took 6 years to deprogram 50 million people.
— Russ 🇺🇸 🦅 (@SoCalRuss1983) April 6, 2026
Aaron responded to someone with this. Wish I was making it up, https://t.co/3BplmvnXag
— Cr (@Crmod033) April 6, 2026
He's so pic.twitter.com/jgxv0Ep9CA
— Autumnleaves (@HerockV) April 6, 2026
He sounds like a really fun guy to be around
— Honey Labubu (@pobretorpe) April 6, 2026
The story says that most of his income comes from subscriptions to his Substack. He could get a real job if the psychological stress of watching every Trump television appearance, looking for a clip to edit out of context, is too much for him.
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