Donald Trump posted on Truth Social overnight, branding Barack Obama “demonic” and saying the former president should be “imprisoned”.
Late-night social media tirades are nothing new for Trump, and many of his early-hours posts routinely draw attention for their combative and unusual tone.
On Monday night (May 11), the president fired off more than 50 posts on Truth Social, using several of them to criticize political opponents — including Obama.
One repost described the 44th president as the “most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades”.
Trump’s post also stated: “Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But first Barack Obama.”
He additionally reshared a claim from a pro-MAGA account alleging Obama fabricated evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — a long-disputed narrative tied to Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
“Arrest Obama the traitor,” the account wrote.
Other posts repeated unverified accusations that Obama used federal agencies to monitor Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, which Trump characterized as “the biggest political crime in American history”.
Obama’s office has been contacted for comment.
Although Obama left the White House nearly a decade ago, he recently spoke about how his ongoing presence in politics — and the Trump era more broadly — has created strain at home with Michelle Obama.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Obama said: “It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her. I’m more forgiving of it, in the sense that I understand why people feel that way, because people aren’t looking at me in historical comparison to other presidents.
“They don’t care about the fact that no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.”
The animosity between the two men has been public for years. Earlier this year, Trump again criticized Obama while speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s fundraising dinner.
The Republican president said: “If you go back to Obama, he was a great divider. He divided this nation. He was a lousy president. The worst president in history was Biden. But Obama was a terrible president.”
Obama has also addressed Trump’s conduct in recent remarks, including condemning the sharing of a racist video depicting him and Michelle Obama as apes.
“I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this … That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way,” Obama added to The New Yorker.