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Truth Social is not in the public top 10 platforms list, and Similarweb shows its monthly visitors down about 36 percent year over year.
A White House spokesperson has called Truth Social the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world" — a superlative the public user data does not support. Davis Ingle made the claim to The New York Times, citing President Trump's "authentic voice" and direct communication with the American people as a counterweight to "biased media" taking him out of context, as The Verge synthesized from the Times' reporting.
Search Engine Land's top-platforms ranking puts YouTube at roughly 2.65 billion monthly active users, Facebook at 2.39 billion, TikTok at 2.21 billion, and Instagram at 1.99 billion. Truth Social does not appear in that top 10. Similarweb data reported by the Times shows Truth Social's monthly visitors fell about 36 percent year over year in July, with average monthly visitors around 25 million in the first seven months of 2026, down from 28 million a year earlier.
Truth Social has also leaned into scarcity: a $100,000-per-month subscription tier offering early access to Trump and other prominent users, a price point that has raised corruption questions, per The Independent and HuffPost. Sister coverage in The Daily Beast tracks the same gap.
What remains unmeasured is the part Ingle actually invoked: a category of "most powerful" defined by direct presidential reach, not audience size. The public ranking cannot test that claim, and the White House has not offered one that can.