Last week, President Donald Trump posted a video that included a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama, which led to widespread condemnation from even his own party. Trump deleted the post, refused to apologize, and blamed the whole thing on an unnamed aide. And if you thought he would respond to that embarrassment by staying away from unhinged social media posting for a while. But he did not.
The president had a long posting binge on Truth Social overnight, according to The Daily Beast, in which he made a variety of bizarre claims. The posting blitz began at about 2:30 a.m. on the East Coast, took a few hours off, and then started posting again.
The posts, per the Beast, included “propping up his long-held grievances and reaching all the way back to the 1980s to apparently relive his glory days. The trip down memory lane included a picture of him shaking hands with then-President Ronald Reagan in 1987, along with an interview from the same year in which a much younger Trump complained about other countries ‘ripping off’ America.”
He also declared American elections “rigged.”
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Trump also, on multiple occasions, shared the same thing more than once in a row.
He also posted an article by someone claiming to be the late John F. Kennedy Jr.:
The day before, Trump had made an even more bizarre claim on Truth Social: He said that if Canada and China were to finalize their preliminary trade deal, China will somehow eliminate hockey and the Stanley Cup.
“The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup,” Trump said in the post, although he wasn’t clear on how exactly that would work. He also, in the same post, threatened to block the opening of a bridge between Detroit and Ontario, named for hockey great Gordie Howe, who was Canadian and played in Detroit.
“”I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve,” Trump said in his bridge threat.
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