There’s a certain weirdness that tends to creep into social media after midnight, and it appears the commander-in-chief isn’t immune to it.
By his own online habits, Saturday night still stood out as an especially erratic stretch.
Over the course of roughly an hour, the 47th President of the United States fired off a rapid series of posts: an AI-made scene of him and JD Vance paddling shirtless in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a photo of Melania smiling in the aftermath of an assassination attempt, an edited image placing his face on Mount Rushmore, a shot at a top Democrat, and a picture of him holding UNO wild cards captioned “I have all the cards.”
US political commentator Harry Sisson reacted to the barrage, writing: “This was all done in under an hour. The man is not well.”
The sequence began around 11.03pm local time with the reflecting pool post: an AI-rendered image showing Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio wading through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, all depicted shirtless.
The pool itself is currently being converted, dyed ‘American flag blue’ using industrial grade pool surface rather than being restored to its original granite base.
He didn’t leave it there, adding several more posts about the pool—including one contrasting it with how it looked during Barack Obama’s presidency and another offering an artist’s impression of the finished blue design.
After that came a Melania post: a beaming photo of the First Lady, shared without any caption or explanation, reportedly taken right after the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
The next target was Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, who was labelled ‘Low IQ’ and a ‘thug’—a post that quickly drew criticism from political opponents.
Not long after, an altered Mount Rushmore image appeared, with Trump’s face inserted alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
The idea itself isn’t unfamiliar. Trump has previously said the notion “sounds like a good idea”, and in 2015 Representative Anna Paulina Luna introduced an actual bill to make it happen. It never made it past the committee stage, but the concept continues to resurface.
To cap off the night, he shared the UNO post—an odd closer to an already chaotic run of uploads.
The flurry also follows fresh backlash over another AI image he shared earlier, one that appeared to depict him as Jesus Christ performing a miraculous healing. When asked about it by reporters, he insisted he interpreted it differently.
He said: “Only the fake news could come up with that one … It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better, and I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”
Make of that what you will.
Either way, his Truth Social feed has become one of the most unpredictable corners of American political media right now.