Three Hours of Trump on a Saturday Afternoon
A small sample of his incessant lies, threats, and detachment from reality
Because I feel a duty to read Trump’s inane ramblings so my readers don’t have to, I often visit his page on that silly social media app he uses. And his page never disappoints. It is perhaps the most insane destination on the internet, and that’s saying something. Post after post, right on top of each other, showing him in AI slop images where he plays the role of everything except the decrepit, failing wannabe authoritarian that he is. Then every so often he’ll post long screeds where he attempts to rewrite news stories he doesn’t like. Here are a few examples from just the last few hours:
He posts images of himself on Mount Rushmore:
Or threats against our allies:
Or whatever the hell this is:
And just a short time ago, I came across this little gem right here:
This latest post comes just a day after several federal judges ruled against Trump in a number of cases, including one that forced him to remove his name from The Kennedy Center. This comes on the heels of another story in which just about every artist who originally agreed to perform at his Freedom 250 concert backed out. So Trump, ever the efficient wordsmith, explained it all by doing what he always does. He lied.
Trump’s lies are so common, so ridiculous, and so absolutely certain that they have become the only thing about Trump that we can truly rely on. So when he says that the artists who all canceled on him because he is the most toxic person in the world are instead “overpriced singers […] nobody wants to hear” we all know he’s lying before we even finish the sentence, because the only thing about him that we can count on is that he will lie about anything, anytime, anywhere, and even when everyone in the world can see the lie coming before his tiny orange thumbs even compose the next post.
I’ve developed the habit of predicting the lies before I see them. I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I also chuckle every time I see a new one. I mean, it’s hard not to. In the same post listed above, for example, he reacts to a federal judge forcing him to remove his name from The Kennedy Center by saying “I canceled my involvement,” which is a line that is either comedy gold, or a sign that the old man has simply lost his grip on reality. Then he goes on to say that the judge refused to let him “spend [his] time and money” on the project in order to “MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN.” But anyone who thinks Trump would spend a dime of his own money on the project must have already forgotten about his “privately funded” ballroom that is now going to cost the taxpayers a billion dollars. Or his promises to fund his own campaigns. Or his promises that “Mexico will pay for the wall.” Or his claims that he is “not a rapist” and also “not a pedophile.”
Now that we have explained the ridiculousness of Trump’s threats and lies, it’s time to discuss the danger inherent in many of them. In the above post, he calls the judge who ruled against him “crooked.” Trump does this a lot, so much so that our corporate media no longer even acknowledges the threats he makes almost every day. In this post, Trump makes a claim he can’t support (that the judge is a criminal) but he also does this by name, and then he names the judge’s wife, pointing out that she has a different name than he does. After all, when sending a mob to find someone, you want to make sure they know what to look for, I guess. Make no mistake - these are threats, and they are intended to be threats.
I scrolled and scrolled, and it’s all the same. AI slop, easily disproven lies, and threats. Pages and pages of it. Yet our media never learns, so every time he posts about a peace deal with Iran that every thinking person knows is not going to happen, oil prices still move, markets get manipulated, and billionaires get the inside info they need to get richer while you and I pay for it all at the pump, at the grocery store, and in our energy bills.
When we want peace, we get lies. When we want healthcare, we get lies. When we want to live affordable lives, we get lies. And if we could eat lies, none of us would ever feel hunger again.
In a world of scarce resources, lies are the only thing we have in abundance.
Brett Pransky is a writer, a teacher, a father, and a husband, but rarely in that order. He spends his days amplifying the voices of freedom and democracy as an Editor right here at The Political Voices Network, and he spends his nights trying to fix the world one clever sentence at a time.