Donald Trump went to his happy place Truth Social on Monday night to fire off hundreds of social media posts.
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As we have noted in the past, Donald Trump’s Truth Social account is very much a window into what is going on in his head. If something troubles the president, he turns to his happy place to blow off some steam by pressing the CAPS LOCK button and writing his own posts, sharing AI-generated images and videos of himself, attacking his “enemies,” amplifying conspiracy theories, and reposting fawning things his supporters have said about him.
And even though we have seen this play out many times before, nothing prepared us for what happened Monday night, when Trump let loose a barrage of hundreds of posts in about three hours. Sadly, this is not an exaggeration.
With so many things going wrong for the president, it’s tough to know specifically what triggered this late-night meltdown. Maybe he got a glimpse of the poll numbers showing that his favorability rating is in the tank, or maybe somebody finally explained to Trump that it is impossible for pharmaceutical prices to drop by more than 100 percent, which the mathematically challenged president routinely claims. Or maybe one of his real legal counselors, i.e., not one of the cookie-cutter lawyers he tried to install as US attorneys, told him that someone in his administration is in real trouble for ordering the killing of two defenseless men clinging to the side of a boat the US military had blown to smithereens.
It is also possible that one of “his” Supreme Court justices gave Trump a heads up that he is losing the case over his tariffs. Or perhaps the interior decorator for his ballroom informed the president that Home Depot had run out of gaudy gold decorations.
Whatever it was, it’s safe to assume that it wasn’t good news, which is why Trump needed a few hundred affirming social media posts to make himself feel good about the world again.
And while many of them were fairly benign, i.e., the kind of self-congratulatory thing someone with malignant narcissism might repost, or covered well-trodden ground like the president’s Big Lie, others were not.
Here are some of the highlights:
Trump called the Democratic lawmakers who reminded US troops that they don’t have to follow illegal orders (like killing the defenseless passengers of a capsized boat) a “threat to America,” called for the prosecution of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for unspecified “crimes against our country,” and amplified one post referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as a “terrorist” and another calling for her to be “deported.”
It’s important to keep in mind that the things he shared largely don’t come from news sources; it’s just stuff random Trump supporters put online.
In addition, many of the videos he shared were months old, including some with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from July that led a Twitter user to proclaim that former President Barack Obama would face treason charges before a military tribunal.
While Trump’s posts covered a lot of ground, one main theme was the alleged criminality of the people the president considers his adversaries. There were a lot of accusations of a variety of crimes ranging from fraud and corruption to seditious behavior and incest.
Of course, there are also a bunch of conspiracy theories, for example about “burn bags” and a “secret room” in the Hoover building, in which James Comey and “his accomplices” hid documents related to “Russiagate,” which is what Trump’s supporters call Moscow’s proven attempt to help get him elected in 2016.
The president also shared a post in which a Twitter user claimed that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “planned January 6 for two years.”
A lot of these accounts are run by MAGA influencers and prominent conspiracy theorists, like that of Alex Jones, who suggested that “Michelle Obama may have used Biden’s autopen in the final days” of the past administration to pardon some people.
Another common thread is that there is a lot of xenophobia and talk of deportation or “remigration” for every undocumented immigrant.
Lost in all of these posts was the president’s call on voters in Tennessee to back Republican candidate Matt Van Epps in Tuesday’s special election.
Even though Trump won the district by 22 points last year, his plunging poll numbers and the GOP’s unpopularity have made this race an unlikely test of whether a blue wave is building that could allow Democrats to take control of Congress next year.
While Van Epps is still the favorite, the outcome will likely be too close for comfort for many Republicans.
And if he were to lose and shrink the narrow GOP majority in the House, we can surely expect another social media meltdown from Trump.



