If you ever were insane enough to want a window into the inner workings of Donald Trump’s brain at 11 p.m. on a Friday, the president has just generously indulged you.
Beginning at 11:03 p.m. local time on Friday and continuing for the next hour or so, Trump unleashed near a dozen posts on Truth Social, a barrage so unhinged that even seasoned Trump-watchers seemed momentarily stunned.
The opening salvo was an AI-generated image of a slimmed-down, decades-younger Trump lounging in a gold inflatable chair in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But that wasn’t all. Trump was flanked by a shirtless JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Doug Burgum, plus a bikini-clad woman of indeterminate identity, so you know that he must have run out of tokens mid-prompt.
After a few minutes, the president posted a picture of himself with his face pasted onto Mount Rushmore next to the other founding fathers.
Trump has been fixated on that pool for days, so at around 11:40 p.m., he posted a side-by-side image labeling an algae-streaked version of the place “Hussein Obama” — implying that this happened under his watch in the White House, next to a renovated one with Trump’s name, captioned “American flag blue.”
The roster also included a photo of Melania smiling after the dinner shooting last week, a post calling Hakeem Jeffries “low IQ,” a photo next to King Charles, and a gold outline of his face.
As one user pointed on X, this man is seriously unwell.
It is easy to laugh. The incessant lies, the cabinet pool boy fantasy, the pathological need to drag Obama’s name (which is also another lie) — it’s all charmingly pathetic from a 79-year-old president has clearly mistaken the presidency for a particularly elaborate reality show role.
The derangement is now regularly scheduled programming
What’s striking isn’t the derangement, which is by now ambient and on-brand. It’s the staffing issue of the whole thing. Just imagine that somewhere in the White House, an aide saw the scantily clad pool photo, the Mount Rushmore self-insert, the gold bust, and made the decision not to take the phone away.
Either no one is left who can, or no one is left who will. A Reuters/Ipsos poll earlier this year found that 61 percent of Americans now think Trump has grown erratic with age, including 30 percent of Republicans.
But the posts will keep coming. There are still more than two and a half years of this presidency left, and those endless days ahead of us worries me infinitely more than all the ridiculous stuff Trump posted on his personal platform last night.
Published: May 3, 2026 05:24 pm