Top trending topics on X: August 23, 2026

Phillies is #1 on X (Twitter) Trending on August 23 after Kyle Schwarber's walk-off home run completed a 6-4 comeback against St. Louis, the club's ninth straight win. Kushner and Jeffries sit at #2 and #3 after NBC News and the New York Times reported a private New York meeting. None of August 21's Verzuz or ENHYPEN strings remain.

Phillies
Philadelphia beat St. Louis 6-4 on August 23 when Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run walk-off, his 39th homer, after Edmundo Sosa's three-run double. ClutchPoints and Phillies Nation timed the clip to Sunday's ninth inning. The Phillies sit at 73-58 after a three-game sweep.
Kushner
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is a new #2. NBC News on August 23 confirmed a private Manhattan meeting with Hakeem Jeffries, first reported by the New York Times, covering housing, immigration, and living costs.
Jeffries
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is a new #3, the other name from the same New York meeting. Mediaite logged progressive backlash the same day. Rank 2 and rank 3 are one story split across surnames.
Kyle Kirkwood
The Andretti Global driver won the inaugural Freedom 250 Grand Prix on the Washington, D.C. street circuit on August 23, leading 128 of 147 laps. Motorsport.com put Christian Lundgaard second and Will Power third. New versus August 21.
Adeyemi
Karim Adeyemi, signed by Barcelona from Borussia Dortmund on July 23 for about 22 million euros plus add-ons, is a new #5. ESPN dated the deal; August 20 Spanish coverage treated early minutes as still too soon to call. No widely dated August 23 match peg was found beyond the name's X rank.
Ferran
Ferran Torres scored twice off the bench in his PSG debut, a 2-2 draw at Rennes on August 23, per FOX Sports. He joined from Barcelona for about 50 million euros after Spain's World Cup final winner. New versus August 21.
Riley O'Brien
The Cardinals closer who was on the mound for Philadelphia's six-run ninth. StatMuse's August 23 box lists him at 3-5. The name is a Phillies-game spillover, not a separate news file. New versus August 21.
Hocevar
Carson Hocevar finished 19th in the Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire on August 23 after a pace-lap spin on rain tires and later contact with Connor Zilisch. On3 and Heavy timed the cautions to Sunday. New versus August 21.
Gavi
Barcelona midfielder Gavi is a new #9. No widely reported August 23 injury or transfer bulletin was found in the fetch; the rank sits beside Adeyemi and Ferran as a La Liga name cluster. Treat the trigger as unconfirmed beyond the X placement.
Tristan Peters
A new #10. No widely reported August 23 news file was found for this exact name. The rank is recorded as an X board entry without a sourced why.

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What changed on X since yesterday

No August 22 X daily ran, so the comparison is August 21 versus August 23.

New in the top 10: all 10 strings. August 21's #Verzuz, Donell, PondPhuwin, Lala, Dee HOH, Raiders, Paige, Brandon Roy, and #ENHYPEN are gone.

Big movers: the board flipped from a Verzuz plus K-pop night to MLB, a Kushner-Jeffries meeting, and Sunday motorsport.

What today's X trends reveal

Sunday sports and one political meeting replaced Friday's music board. Phillies at #1 and Riley O'Brien at #7 are the same 6-4, nine-game-streak win. Kushner at #2 and Jeffries at #3 are one New York Times story split into surnames, which is how X often stores a meeting.

Kyle Kirkwood's Freedom 250 win (128 of 147 laps) and Hocevar's New Hampshire mess are same-day motorsport, not holdovers from August 21's Raiders preseason row. Adeyemi, Ferran, and Gavi are a Barcelona-adjacent football cluster; only Ferran's two PSG debut goals are dated August 23. Tristan Peters has no sourced peg. For X research tooling, see best X Twitter trend research tools.

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This list is the August 23 get_top_trends snapshot for type X (Twitter) Trending with limit 10. Teams that watch ranks as they move, not after a recap, can call the same feed as new rows arrive. The generating call:

{
  "type": "X (Twitter) Trending",
  "limit": 10
}

See the X Twitter Trending API page for source notes.