pds.trump.com·2025-04-20→2026-04-19·year one
19,777,096
In exactly one year, between two consecutive April 20ths, pds.trump.com minted 19,777,096 decentralized identifiers. Each one of them claims to be Donald, Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron, or Melania Trump. None of them are.
- Window opens2025-04-20
- Window closes2026-04-19
- Days observed365
- Avg / day54,184
When it started
The first operation landed at 2025-04-20 23:47:23 UTC. Whoever runs pds.trump.com picked April 20 to switch it on. By 23:48 UTC there were already DIDs claiming Trump-family handles. Day one was a soft launch, with 2,437 accounts. Day two it doubled. Day three it spiked to 1,345,060.
The opening four days alone account for 11.4% of every DID in this snapshot — about 2,253,812 identifiers in just under 96 hours. After that the operation settled into a long, steady churn: roughly 50–60k new fake accounts per day, every day, for the rest of the year.
The year
Daily new DIDs from 2025-04-20 to 2026-04-19.
Peak day: 1,345,060 on 2025-04-22. After day four the tail flattens — but it never stops.
Seven names, twenty million times
How often each handle is claimed. The bars are flat because every account claims all seven.
No variation, no overflow. The same seven Trump-family aliases attached to every single DID. That's the operation's signature and also why detecting it is trivial: a real population would spread out.
The cadence
Hour-of-day distribution (UTC) across the year.
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Roughly flat across all 24 hours. A human-driven sign-up curve slopes hard around sleep. This one runs constant. Whatever's minting these accounts doesn't sleep.
Identity state
- Created and left alone19,232,630
- Touched again at least once1,388,647
- Tombstoned0
Only 6.7% of the accounts have ever been touched after creation. Zero have been tombstoned. These are write-once identities — produced, claimed, and abandoned in place.
Why we cut it off here
pds.trump.com's opening day was April 20, 2025. We close the snapshot exactly one year later, on April 20, 2026 — same date, same number, twelve months apart. A symmetric box around a year of activity, ending before the operation's second anniversary spike (whatever that looks like).
The site used to poll plc.directory every fifteen minutes and rewrite the dashboard on each tick. At twenty million rows that was producing a four-figure annual write bill — the running cost was on track to outpace what we'd learn from the data. So we froze the snapshot at the year boundary. The numbers on this page will not change. If the operation continues, a future year-two snapshot can compare it side by side.
What this actually is
pds.trump.com is a Personal Data Server, a node in the AT Protocol — the network underneath Bluesky. Anyone can stand one up. Each account on it publishes an identity record to plc.directory, the protocol's public, append-only ledger of who's who. We polled that ledger and kept every operation that named this particular server. Then we counted them.
We don't know who runs it. We don't know what they're for. We know there are 19,777,096 of them, all claiming the same seven names, all created in one year, all running constant through every hour of the day. Make of that what you will.