Most world leaders mark a busy week with a press conference or a carefully worded statement. Donald Trump, freshly back from the G7 and a historic Iran deal signing in Paris, chose a different approach: eight hours of continuous Truth Social posts, an AI image of himself holding the entire planet, and a letter cheerfully comparing him to Hitler.
The Atlas image dropped on Saturday morning: an AI-generated picture of Trump holding the Earth over his head, the American flag draped across his body like a toga, posted without a caption. It arrived one day after the US attacked drone storage sites in Iran following an attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
🇺🇸 Trump: Atlas?
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)
June 27, 2026
The Atlas post was just the opening act.
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Trump had spent the previous week posting frantically from Air Force One on the return flight from Paris, covering everything from chip production and White House ballroom renovations to a six-month-old magazine cover featuring him and Narendra Modi.
He shared what he described as “outrageous” claims about what would have happened to America if Kamala Harris had won, purportedly written by shock jock Michael Savage, including that China would have annexed Taiwan, the electoral college would have been abolished and there would have been a “mandatory hijab day.” He kept posting after landing at Joint Base Andrews, jumping between topics with no obvious connective thread.
The post that generated the most coverage was one Trump shared from “Presidential Historian Dave King,” a public policy lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School. The letter argued that history’s most powerful figures, “Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Tamburlaine, Napoleon and, more recently, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin,” all shared one fatal limitation: “their lack of global reach.”
Trump, the letter continued, suffers no such limitation. “Donald Trump is, without question, the most powerful man that the planet has ever known — by a long way.” Trump shared it with one line of his own: “Presidential Historian Dave King — Sounds good to me!”
The Regime Change book by Haberman and Swan, published this week, explained why this letter resonated so specifically. When the reporters asked Trump about his place in history during their interview, he called for an aide to fetch a copy of the same two-page document, which he had first received at a golf event honoring Gary Player. He then read aloud each historical figure’s name and explained how each one fell short of him personally.
According to the book, he recited “the names of some of history’s most powerful figures, explaining how each fell short of his own achievements.”
Featured image via Truth Social screengrab
