The Washington Post and other news outlets are reporting that Trump engaged in a frenzy of online posting yesterday. The Post story is headlined “Trump suggests renaming New Mexico amid torrent of online memes and taunts.”
The Post story details a variety of images that Trump posted, including an image of Trump surrounded by robots as fires burn in the background, and, according to the Post, “an image of himself as wrestler Hulk Hogan; an image of his head in place of Iran; several images of himself with the nation’s first president, George Washington, including hosting Washington in the Oval Office; and a cartoon taunting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as ‘governor,’ alluding to Trump’s assertion that Canada should be a U.S. state.” The Post also relates that “Trump also returned to familiar territory, reposting a ranking of presidents that placed himself at the top, touting his planned White House ballroom and threatening attacks on Iran. One post appeared to lay claim to the moon, with the message ‘the moon is ours’ accompanied by an American flag.”
Apparently, the unhinged and compulsive online posting continued today.
I suppose that one could say that the posts reflect a “rational” strategy for distracting the public from the Iran war, inflation, Trump’s self-defeating trade policy, and, of course, the Epstein files, among many other things. The renaming New Mexico posts, in particular, may seem to have been written to achieve precisely that kind of distraction. But the sheer number and tone of the posts belie the notion that there is any rational strategy behind them.
Instead, it should be pretty clear to everyone that we have a serious problem in the White House. Forget criticizing these posts as “beneath the dignity” of the presidency. This is out-and-out bonkers stuff, and we can’t allow someone who is so manifestly unfit to remain in a position of power.
So, whatever Trump’s base thinks, responsible actors must step in. It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment. Natalie Harp must go.