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Twitter, as one of the popular social networks today and big data generator, can affect and change the public discourse, so political candidates are using it extensively as the vehicle for attracting and keeping their followers. Since Donald Trump's 2016 presidency election, his Twitter account with millions of followers has become an important subject for various statistical analyses, mostly because of his controversy. Therefore, this paper uses sentiment analysis of a large set of his tweets to explore his influence, as well the set of affective and cognitive aspects of his messages. The results of this analysis indicate what kind of findings in political domain can be recognized from tweets, and how they can be interpreted.

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