Trump's Weird Capitalization Habits Explained [View all]

Donald Trump doesn't follow rules. He hates rules, unless he is making them. In his Truth Social and other Internet posts, you have probably noticed that he capitalizes words in a distinctly non-English way. Why?

He's, you know, German, see. In German, all nouns are capitalized. It's a hard and fast rule. Trump likes the idea, so he sort of copies the German pattern. Like everything else he does, of course, he doesn't know why he does that, exactly. So, he also capitalizes some other words, almost at random. It's a little confusing. Just like Trump's brain. Confusing.

So, Trump's trying to be more like the Germans. He has a lot of respect for historical Germans. Especially German leaders from the 1930s and 40s. Strong men, he thinks they were. He wants to be a strong man. So he copies what those old dead Germans did. Capitalizing nouns is strong, you see. Very strong. Just like Trump thinks he is.