Usually, the best. A telltale sign of Donald Trump’s mental state at any given time is the tone and frequency of his social media posts. On Wednesday—in the wake of a new indictment on election interference charges by special counsel Jack Smith—the former president apparently spent the morning scouring his Truth Social feed, redacting all manner of conspiratorial, sexist, and fascist content.
Trump has posted dozens of memes and comments from accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, false claims about the 2020 election, sexist attacks against Kamala Harris, and using authoritarian tactics against his political enemies.
According to the progressive watchdog Media Matters, the former president promoted the widespread conspiracy theory that Trump is fighting a demonic force controlling the government at least 15 times on Wednesday morning. These images included use of the conspiracy slogan “Where we go one, we go all” and references to the conspiracy belief that “the storm is coming.”
Trump also “reposted” a post featuring photos of Vice President Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the words: “Funny how blow jobs affected their careers differently.”
Trump has promoted several posts and comments calling for prominent Democrats to be jailed. One such post included a photo of former President Barack Obama with the caption, “All roads lead to Obama. Lie if you want public military trials.”
Another post on the account shows former President Harris, Hillary Clinton, President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and Hunter Biden in orange prison jumpsuits. The text on the image reads, “How to actually fix the system.”
Trump has publicly indicated that if reelected, he would use his office to exact revenge on Biden and other prominent political figures. Last year, after being charged with crimes related to his mishandling of classified documents, Trump vowed to appoint “a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden. And the entire Biden criminal family.”
Wednesday’s tweeting frenzy is one of several public meltdowns Trump has had in recent weeks since his campaign was thrown off balance by Biden’s exit from the race and Harris’s rise to the nomination. It’s clear at this point that those around Trump are regularly doing damage control to keep him happy.
A senior Trump campaign official says: Rolling Stone They are increasingly relieved, for their 2024 campaign, that the former president’s primary social media home is now Truth Social, if only because it limits the public reach and media attention such posts get as Trump tries to court moderate and swing voters in the final months of the election. If Trump is still using X, or formerly Twitter, as his primary social tool, the official contends, more “unhelpful” posting and reposting will gain more public appeal and drive more news cycles. (Trump has been posting on X frequently since Elon Musk interviewed him earlier this month, but the bulk of his ramblings happen on Truth Social.)
But that doesn’t mean what happens on Truth Social stays on the site. On Thursday, Trump’s digital meltdown during and after Harris’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention spilled over into a series of angry, rambling phone calls to Fox News and Newsmax during their live coverage of the convention.
