Why the President's mood matters

Mood is a leading indicator

The President of the United States is the single most consequential communicator on earth. A celebratory post and a furious one are not just words — they are signals that traders, diplomats, journalists, and foreign capitals read within minutes.

Markets have visibly twitched on a single sentence. Currencies, defense stocks, crypto, and entire sectors have reacted to tone as much as to substance. If sentiment moves money, then sentiment is worth measuring.

Diplomacy runs on emotion

Behind the formal language of statecraft, decisions are made by people having a good day or a bad one. Allies plan around it. Adversaries probe for it. Knowing whether the mood is 'triumphant' or 'nuclear rage' is, genuinely, situational awareness.

How we measure it

Every time the President posts, our system reads the text and scores the emotional temperature from 0 (pure rage) to 100 (euphoric). A language model trained on his distinctive style separates genuine fury from confident trolling, gloating from celebrating, and irritation from sarcasm.

The result is a single live number, a mood label, and a one-line summary — updated the moment a new post lands. The timeline below the gauge shows how the mood has swung across his most recent posts.

Read responsibly

PotusFeel is a parody and entertainment project. The score is an automated interpretation, not a clinical or official assessment, and it can be wrong, dramatic, or tongue-in-cheek by design. Enjoy it as a mood ring for the news — not as financial or political advice.