Trump, 80, Starts Race to Election With Social Media Meltdown
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Donald Trump spiraled into an unhinged Labor Day weekend posting spree in an apparent attempt to win back MAGA voters for the midterms.
What began as a familiar Trumpian tour of immigration, trade and needling the Democrats soon devolved into something much stranger. In 48 hours between his first post on Saturday, the 80-year-old president ricocheted between threats against Iran, attacks on Canada, midterm boasts and grievances against his political foes, while repeatedly using AI to cast himself as a conquering military hero, a peer of the Founding Fathers, and even the man redrawing America’s borders.
By the time the posting spree ended Monday night, Trump’s profile—which he uses as a kind of semi-official political channel—had turned into a surreal blend of foreign policy, MAGA grievance and self-mythologizing.
One of six maps Trump shared, showing his preferred name for New Mexico. Truth Social / Donald Trump
He shared this map right after. Truth Social / Donald Trump
After his first post, about Spain, at 9:24 p.m. Saturday, Trump fired off 107 more posts before his final message at 9:27 p.m. Monday—an average of roughly 2.2 posts an hour, with bursts of several posts in a single minute.
Regular programming took a noticeable turn into unhinged territory with the mini-rant about the European nation. “So sad what is happening in Spain, a country with ZERO control of its Border. WOW!” Trump posted , referring to the country’s migrant crisis.
Hours later, he took a shot at a familiar target. “Canada’s (currency) Dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable. It has been that way for years - but no longer!” he wrote .
Then another: the Democrats. “Dumocrats CHEAT. Why won’t they approve Voter I.D.? Proof of Citizenship?” he said , referring to his Save America Act stalling in the Senate.
Trump shared this image, after having earlier depicted himself as Hulk Hogan. Truth Social / Donald Trump
He also posted an image of himself alongside George Washington on horseback. Donald Trump/Truth Social
Washington visited Trump’s gold-washed Oval Office, too, in the president’s imagination at least. Donald Trump/Truth Social
Immigration, relations with Canada, and Trump’s gripes with the Democrats are at least political issues, though. But it wasn’t long before Trump got personal.
“Even this jerk is beginning to get it!” he posted on Sunday at lunchtime, sharing the first of many AI-generated images.
This particular piece of slopaganda showed a depiction of Trump critic and silver screen legend Robert De Niro holding up a red T-shirt with the words “Trump is my president” on it.
It is unclear whether the 80-year-old president knew the image of Robert De Niro was fake before he shared it.
It is unclear whether the 80-year-old president knew the image of Robert De Niro was fake before he shared it. Truth Social/Donald Trump
Things got markedly weirder after this. A couple of hours after the De Niro jibe, Trump shared an AI image made to look like an oil painting of an historical scene.
The image has three bizarre elements. Trump is in military attire despite the fact that he is an infamous draft-dodger. He is also on a horse. And he is on a horse alongside an adoring George Washington.
Trump likes to post self-aggrandizing images of himself alongside the Revolutionary War hero. In fact, he spent Sunday afternoon indulging his obsession with the Founding Father.
The aging president followed the horseback depiction with one of Washington sitting beside him in the Oval Office, captioned, “President Washington visits President Trump.”
Trump's AI slop parade included a jab at Barack Obama. Truth Social
Trump shared this bizarre rendition of an Iran map. Donald Trump/Truth Social
Some Lake Ontario garble followed, then Trump continued his AI flight from reality with more truly unpresidential posts, editing a ‘Trump 2024’ cap onto Joe Biden’s head, a tasteless image of the Titanic sinking, superimposing his face onto Hulk Hogan’s body, casting himself as the commander of a bizarre dystopian robot army, putting himself at the helm of a spaceship, rechristening New Mexico to “New America,” and laying claim to the moon .
One of Trump’s posts showed an apparently AI-generated design board for a Space Force uniform that seemed to borrow design cues from the evil Galactic Empire in Star Wars.
Another was a random throwback to his photo-op as a McDonald’s employee in the lead-up to the 2024 election. Around 3 p.m., he still wasn’t done, posting a map of Iran alongside a map of Iran designed to resemble a bust of his head.
Around this time, he put away the AI-slop machine to attack Michigan Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell, who dared to push back at his renaming of Lake Ontario.
He declared the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory. Truth Social / Donald Trump
Donald Trump offered no explanation for several of his Truth Social posts. Truth Social/Donald Trump
“Upon his death, I gave Congressman John Dingell, the Royal Sendoff, MAXED OUT! His wife, Debbie Dingbat, called me and thanked me profusely, while crying uncontrollably,” he began , giving the widowed Democratic congresswoman a derogatory nickname.
He continued: “She couldn’t believe I would do such a nice thing! Since then, she says nothing but bad about your favorite President, ME! Every time I see that Third Rate Loser ripping me, I’m amazed, because I’m a loyal person, I don’t do things like that but, that’s OK — It’s Politics. However, it shouldn’t be that way!”
After sharing a load of dodgy graphs proving his economic brilliance, Trump then shared an AI image of U.S. fighter jets bombing Kharg Island, an important seaport for Iran’s oil exports.
He then shared two images of him alongside Transformer-like futuristic bots. “Give them nightmares,” was the text on one of the AI images.
He referenced his war in Iran a lot. Truth Social / Donald Trump
Following this, Trump talked up his ballroom project, sharing an actual photograph of himself at the site.
More utter AI-drivel followed before he capped his hours-long posting spree with a glowing tribute to his very own Mar-a-Lago estate. “The Mar-a-Lago Club is considered, by everyone, to be the Best in the World. It also serves as our unparalleled Southern White House, free of charge. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he wrote alongside a photograph of his tacky Florida bolthole.
This ode to his favorite place on earth marked the end of a 37-post Truth Social barrage.
But the Mar-a-Lago post clearly reminded him of his love of golf, as, just two hours later, the president was posting videos of himself driving down the fairway. “He is a great golfer, wins all the time, but an even better President!” he humbly added in a caption, quoting an unknown fan of his golf skills.
Trump mixed his bizarre brand of diplomacy with videos of himself golfing. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS
At 8 p.m. Sunday he unleashed his own bizarre personal ranking of former American presidents. Unsurprisingly, he put himself at the top of the list as “The Greatest” of all time. He shared the same ranking last month. “Great” status was bestowed upon Woodrow Wilson. Despite this nod, Trump posted another image the same day, claiming the same president “broke America” through his “bureaucracy.”
After reposting the ranking on Sunday, he attacked Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with another slop post . In it, he barks “get up, Governor” as he and Carney play ice hockey. Calling Carney “governor” is part of Trump’s “Canada as the 51st U.S. state” gambit.
Right after, he posted another computer-generated image of himself, this time bashing a map of Iran with a U.S.-themed mallet. He then declared the Strait of Hormuz “new U.S. territory” before returning to his ambitions to rename New Mexico.
Trump re-shared a ranked list of U.S. presidents. Surprise, surprise: he dubbed himself the greatest. Screenshot/Truth /Truth Social
He also shared a slop depicting a “United States Space Force.” Truth Social
“Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico, one of the great vote cheating states of all time, to NEW AMERICA. So much more prestigious and beautiful for the people of that potentially incredible State. Wow, I Love It!!!” he wrote alongside an AI-generated clip of him vandalizing a road sign to ‘rename’ the state.
More bombing slop preceded some links to favorable news coverage, a video of Trump admonishing a female reporter, the president helping to plug a book about himself, and an endorsement , bringing the insane Sunday posting spree to a close.
He was up bright and early on Labor Day with more of the same, though. He started by defending his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hatchet job, trumpeting his D.C. makeover generally, attacking more political opponents and talking up his own signature bills.
Trump’s “human printer,” Natalie Harp, is known to do much of the tech-illiterate president’s posting for him. KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images
About two hours into Monday’s Truth Social spiral, he was back onto his map obsession. At 11.42 a.m., he shared a fake United States Geological Survey map showing New Mexico renamed as New America.
He proceeded to share six more doctored maps showing the change, with his frenzy culminating in yet another map , this time showing the whole of North America, including Canada and Denmark’s Greenland, as well as Mexico covered by a U.S. flag.
In the space of a minute he then deviated into attacking Iran before sharing an AI-generated image of himself defeating Hulk Hogan in an arm wrestling match.
Former President Barack Obama was next in Trump’s sights. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest president of them all?” a caption on an image of Obama looking into the mirror says. Trump is looking back at Obama.
Trump dictates his desired posts to aides, and they post them for him. Clive Mason/Getty Images
He then re-shared some of the same AI nonsense from a day earlier before showing clear worry about the midterms in a Labor Day post. “Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country,” he said , before adding that the Republican Party was set for a landslide victory in November.
He followed this with another missive aimed at Canada. He warned Canadian aircraft company Bombardier that it can no longer sell in the U.S. unless it moves its manufacturing south of the border.
“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” he ranted . “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank’.”
He then shared archive footage of him at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. This appeared to be an attempt to abate criticism after he said on Sunday that he had labored alongside construction workers in the wake of the attacks in 2001. “We worked long and hard, but it was just so terrible and so hopeless,” Trump said.
He also posted this Labor Day message. Truth Social / Donald Trump
He posted this wild slight on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Truth Social / Donald Trump
He moved on a couple of hours later to defend the Christopher Columbus statue outside the Eisenhower Building in D.C., before uploading a compilation of clips that compared his treatment of the Armed Forces with that of Obama and King Charles of the United Kingdom.
He then appeared to become possessed by a teenage boy, sharing a six-minute UFC highlight reel set to rousing music. He then shared the video a second time with an X post attached. “They thought it was an easy fight…until the real beast woke up….” it read .
By 8 p.m. he was ranting about oil and nukes. “Oil prices will drop precipitously, like everything else is dropping (but more!), when we WIN the war with Iran. Three Dollars a gallon, but ultimately, below Two Dollars a gallon. It will all happen quickly, and Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon. MAGA!” he wrote .
He followed this with some videos bragging about his perceived successes in home-buying and mortgage rates, then what was supposed to be a rousing message about never quitting. This clip came from a clunky, verbose speech he gave to young people at the White House in June 2018.
Trump was in slopaganda overdrive. Truth Social / Donald Trump
Trump was a central character in many of his posts. Truth Social / Donald Trump
Trump alongside Transformer-like robots. Truth Social / Donald Trump
This is how Trump finished his bumper long weekend of posting.
The president took his Truth Social posting habit to a new extreme last month, sharing more than 1,000 posts—roughly 33 posts a day.
Natalie Harp, his utterly devoted aide, has long been credited with helping craft his bonkers Truth Social posts by feeding him potential posts she finds online and across right-wing websites. She earns a taxpayer-funded salary of $150,000.
Trump’s latest Truth Social posting spree comes as Republicans panic about the upcoming midterm elections amid the president’s abysmal approval ratings .
A Reuters/Ipsos survey released last month found that 33 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s performance, the lowest rating of his presidency, while 64 percent disapproved.
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God bless the USA - we sure need it
I really used to like that song...
I do like it. It is from another era though.
less than 60 days before the midterms and trump and his maga pedophile party are in the shitter. time for another fake assassination attempt ...
LOL, that picture on the video above says a lot, especially since the happy couple haven't shared a bedroom in decades ...
Does that Space Force uniform look a little like a Nazi uniform? Like the uniforms the Empire forces wore in Star Wars?
Starship Troopers? Yeah. Watch that movie and tell me you don't feel like you just got fascism shoved down your throat? BTW...the book is much better
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Its all so bizarre.
He's 80, narcissistic and has a phone... He's doing all the Dems heavy lifting for them running up to the election.
I'm thinking his Adderall dosage got upped, keeping him up all night with his thumb overstimulated.
he's making the election all about him, and his dumbass supporters in congress and red states get to take the beating for it. I wonder how much a gallon of regular unleaded and/or diesel will cost 7+ weeks from now ...
His narcissism makes it so that he cannot or perceive in any way that he is not the most loved POTUS of all time.
I think they came from Starship Troopers, which were modeled to look authoritarian.
Whoever designed the uniforms for Star Wars has to be familiar with Starship troopers, too
Star Wars came out in 1977. Starship Troopers came out 20 years later in 1997. It wouldn't surprise me to see Troopers was influenced by the earlier movie. It really doesn't surprise me when populists are easily influenced by popular culture.
That makes better sense. I was off on my timing
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be quiet you
Trump Brags About Space Force Uniforms’ Fascist Inspiration
The uniforms were inspired by a movie that used Nazi imagery to satirize fascism. Now they’re being proposed for America’s newest military branch.
President Donald Trump unveiled a mockup of proposed Space Force uniforms, which he acknowledged are based on ones worn by fictional fascists.
Trump, 80, posted on Truth Social a mockup of the service dress uniform for the newest branch of the military, which he established in 2019. The gray and black look was “inspired by the discipline of the Starship Trooper uniform,” the graphic says, while being “modernized for the guardians of the space domain.”
He also shared a slop depicting a “United States Space Force.” Truth Social
Starship Troopers , the 1997 science fiction film, was intended to undermine what Dutch director Paul Verhoeven interpreted as fascist themes in the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
“I decided to make a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism,” the 88-year-old, who grew up near a Nazi military base in The Hague, told The Guardian in a 2018 interview. Nazi-inspired iconography is prevalent in the film.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/DV3CN6T4WRC7NIUOPS2BQ76UCA.webp?auth=9afbc080c762d022019c553e78d0460a4720a3605d6e8f66e431d4bd2dc061e1&width=1024&height=720 1024w, 1440w" src="https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/DV3CN6T4WRC7NIUOPS2BQ76UCA.webp?auth=9afbc080c762d022019c553e78d0460a4720a3605d6e8f66e431d4bd2dc061e1&width=800&height=563" > Neil Patrick Harris in 'Starship Troopers.' TriStar PicturesTrump’s choice of attire for U.S. service members drew backlash.
“I liked the movie, which was very different from the book. My concern is whether these guys understand the point Verhoeven intended in Starship Troopers ,” The Dispatch’s editor-in-chief, Jonah Goldberg, wrote on X. “The thing is I don’t know what would be worse: whether they got it or didn’t.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/ZNJIUBZXO5HSZAFMWF23K3R6NY.png?auth=43ee263cbe78d848ef7f88365bd5c622222bc09e0ea13ae226e5c22640ac4b8d&width=1024&height=1431 1024w, 1440w" src="https://www.thedailybeast.com/resizer/v2/ZNJIUBZXO5HSZAFMWF23K3R6NY.png?auth=43ee263cbe78d848ef7f88365bd5c622222bc09e0ea13ae226e5c22640ac4b8d&width=800&height=1118" > The uniforms raised concerns because of their fascist inspiration. X/JonahDispatch“Just awful,” former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger wrote .
Menswear writer Derek Guy added : “this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie.”
the photos didnt show up
I didnt notice this before because the image is so dark -
"Inspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform ...,
It is amazing; Trump finds ways to look crazier than he did the day before. This series of posts are deranged. The man is out of his uber-egotistical mind.
How can anyone want this fucking psycho to have control over US diplomacy, economy, and military??
His map of the middle east is upside down.
This is what the real world map looks like -
I just realized the map was turned up side down to accommodate the shape of the silhouette of his head. Thats how little this pos cares about reality.
Maybe because most of his supporters are also out of their minds? It would explain a lot.
If it wasn't for NT I would not know these existed.
Most of them are pretty amusing. None are to be taken very seriously.
Trump took them serious enough to be posting them in the middle of the night. The state of mind(?) would also be taken seriously for the individual posting them.
Once again...when are we to take him seriously?
You think he is the one creating them?
Trump once said his social media is the official way he communicate to the American people.
I guess most of the American people don't care.
They've got his name on them and his poor understanding of the English language and spelling. If not, where is the lawsuit?
Are you ignoring all the polls? Are you ignoring his current approval/disapproval ratings?
So you do think he is creating them.
Interesting
Keep your eye on the actual topic which is "his social media is the official way he communicate to the American people"
Most of them didn't vote for him so perhaps they did.
Of course not. He whines about how he thinks Biden's staff did everything for him but Trump hands over pretty much all control to his little bitch boy Stevens, Chueng and Miller. I doubt Trump even knows where he is half the time and his handlers have to get him back on script. You can tell when Trump writes his own X comments by the misspellings and idiotic names he makes up for anyone with a spine who refuses to kneel to him. But his sycophants don't care, they lap it up whether it's Trump pissing in their faces or Chueng doing it and telling them the President said it's raining.
"We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," - Donald J Trump
yes and yes
Maybe this will be what finally divorces Republicans from Trump.
You are not concerned that the sitting PotUS —the guy who controls our military, government, and can effect harm on our economy— has the insanely poor judgment to post this childish egocentric crap?
Nothing to see here folks. Trump is no problem. Stop criticizing him!
Yes, I already know he can act like a child. I don't think many people feel they need a daily update.
Always a dodge from you. I asked if it bothered you that this man-child holds the most powerful office on the planet. Is Trump fit to be PotUS??
Then he should get the fuck off of social media. He's the one posting the daily updates many many times each day.
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Actually you asked if I was concerned that Trump has the insanely poor judgment to post this childish egocentric crap? I am not even sure what insanely poor judgement is and how it different from regular poor judgement. And honestly I didn't care enough to ask.
And you continue to dodge.
It is obvious that you know you cannot defend Trump. It is obvious that you know how wrong he is, yet you refuse to criticize the worst PotUS in US history.
A key part of why we have this Trump problem — apathy.
And you continue to ignore what I say or just don't comprehend it. My statement about what you asked is a direct quote from you and I had already said Trump can be childish.
Another disconnect. I was talking about Trumps posts in the middle of the night. You went off on some totally different tangent. At least try to stay on topic
I don't care about apathy.
When you are on that dark long dusty thirst inspiring trail in the thicket of stickers and dead underbrush, do you ever find the need for one of those plastic packets of plastic ware that come with a fine paper napkin on the side....? Cause whence one winces and hasn't the convinces, to decide witch way to go, they sometimes open that plastic bag and dump out the contents, looking for a sign, and then suddenly, there it is, a fork, a plastic fork in the middle of the rugged terrain disguised as a trail, that you now have discovered, comes with directions, and out does tumble and on ground almost crumble, is plastic fantastic ware gone wild...But no, it's time for the really big decision,which fork to take in the rough road you just hoed, and then, u r suddenly hit with a life changing dilemma....do you follow the dinner fork, and just toss, the sald fork, or just curl up in the mud, and wait for someone to come along and from behind, spork you, and afterwards hopefully spoon, cause what else is there to do under a crazy full American Moon named by an American Goon gone LOONEY, cause that is Trumps only a Tuny asz of late, but Hell, what a liter, asz he sure as shit makes US Sewer GRATE, as we follow his lead that is our fate, as we slip and slide down the trail he did set apart and ablaze, as he burns it all down, like an Orange Coke smokin Richard Prior Clown gone mad, and all us sure are glad....
huh?
A lot of people who dont know NT exists have seen these memes. Thats kind of what happens when the president of the United States is a lunatic.
Mainstream big 3 news shows like the nightly news and the Today show (and right wing media) wont mention it, because they are gutless and want to protect their access to the administration. But other people know unless they live under a bushel.
The Boy(s, and girls) in the plastic bubble, and within big bubbles LIE big Troubles.
They are not allowed to observe conflicting reporting from what they have been prescribed buy a bought media , snorting, all the way to the bank, turned robbers who daily deliver clobbers for many a stupid who slobbers over a corrupt LYING POS, and , i guess, for now, that's about it...
More likely if they thought anyone cared they would still run it.
Other people like the ones that get their news from Mother Jones, MBNOW, The Guardian. Huff Post............
Trump, through the FCC has already struck at TV news agencies that dare to criticize him and threatened all the others.
Yea, no news organizations have been criticizing him. S/
FCC Chair Threatens Action Against Broadcasters Airing 'Fake Polls'
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For god's sake, they aren't even hiding what they are doing. You have to purposely avoid looking not to see it.
Obviously none of it is working. You have to purposely avoid looking not to see it.
When one does not believe the First Amendment is a good idea, one will do everything one can to break it in two
See what I mean by being purposely ignorant?
Wow, he is really special!
America's special needs President.
And we, like Mrs. Cartman, have to suffer the humiliation of participating in this farce.
meh, POS/POTUS usually throws a major tantrum or demonstration of his dementia preceding major humiliations in the courts or media ...