The Trump White House joined Bluesky in October 2025, quickly becoming the platform’s second most-blocked account with over 92,000 blocks, trailing only Vice President JD Vance who has accumulated 166,000 blocks since June[1].

The White House’s debut post featured a 52-second video montage of President Trump’s “greatest hits” since returning to office, including clips mocking political opponents[2]. The administration’s arrival on Bluesky was particularly notable as the platform had become a haven for Trump critics and left-leaning users who fled X (formerly Twitter) after the 2024 election[2:1].

For comparison, Bluesky’s most followed accounts paint a different picture of the platform’s user base:

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 2.17 million followers
  • Mark Cuban: 1.49 million followers
  • Mark Hamill: 1.31 million followers[1:1]

  1. Yahoo News - The White House Joins BlueSky and Instantly Becomes the 2nd-Most Blocked Account — After JD Vance ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. HuffPost - Trump White House Joins Bluesky And Instantly Earns A Very Dubious Distinction ↩︎ ↩︎

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    can vary a lot city to city

    trying to do something like this in phoenix & new york during the bush jr era (as greens) and then again with trump 1.0 era in san francisco & austin (as psl) was mind blowing for me in how different each city is.

    our stall was vandalized and one of us got sucker punched in san francisco; we got verbally threatened by a few wackos in new york; people were entirely uninterested in phoenix; and they clearly intentionally ignored us in austin.

    and now being welcomed in chicago for trump 2.0 has taught me that american liberals are have a wide spectrum of hostility towards 3rd party proselytizers in democrat-dominated demonstrations/marches.