A former White House aide compared President Donald Trump’s recent strange posts on Truth Social to “watching his brain rot in real time” because he’s getting more and more frustrated with the way he behaves online.
The president often makes news through his social media posts, but his actions during the Labor Day weekend caused particular worry.
He posted 60 things in just 10 hours, many of them AI-created memes that were very controversial.These included images of Trump with robots, playing the stock market, and showing countries on a map covered by an American flag.
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary, told The New York Times, “He keeps flooding the area with so much of this that we’ve become used to how bizarre it is.”
She said an 80-year-old president is spending too much time watching and sharing AI-generated stories that make him look like the biggest and strongest leader ever.
She said it feels like “we’re genuinely watching his brain rot in real time.”
Matthews was part of the first Trump administration but left after the January 6 Capitol riot.
She later gave testimony to the House Select Committee on the attack, which made her enemies with Trump and his supporters.
She was talking about a recent flood of posts by Trump on his personal platform.
On Sunday, he posted many memes, some suggesting he rename New Mexico “New America” – following up on his earlier act of using a Sharpie to rename Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico.Others discussed his “greatness” compared to other presidents.
Some of the posts were odd but not dangerous.
Trump laughed at actor Robert De Niro, posed with George Washington, and showed himself with giant robots.He also put his face over Hulk Hogan’s and redesigned Space Force uniforms.
But other posts were more serious.
One showed Trump fighting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on an ice rink, which made light of the real trade war between the two countries.Another had a fake map showing the American flag covering North America, suggesting a fantasy about taking over Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Some posts imagined Trump as a wartime leader, watching airstrikes on Iran from an aircraft carrier, bombing Kharg Island, or launching nuclear weapons from space.
Another had him playing the stock market in the Oval Office and making money from Intel shares, a company owned partly by the government.
Maine Democrat Chellie Pingree responded on X, saying, “This is truly unhinged behavior from the President of the United States… None of this is normal or okay.”
She said Republicans can’t just ignore it.
Congress, the Cabinet, and others have a duty to stop this dangerous behavior and ask if Trump is fit to hold office.
Anti-Trump writer Ron Filipkowski said, “This is what Natalie Harp does all day for $150,000 – troll the internet for weird memes and videos from Trump’s supporters, show them to Trump, he approves them, then she puts them out.”
Some commentators suggested the Cabinet use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump, calling the posts signs of the same “brain rot” described by Matthews.
The most severe response came from Lawrence O’Donnell, MS NOW anchor, who criticized Trump’s images one by one on The Last Word.
He compared him to King George III, called him a “deeply sick man,” and asked if one of the pictures was proof of insanity.
He said, “The president of the United States has lost his mind, and that is not a Hollywood screenplay,” and urged the media to take Trump’s behavior more seriously.
He was angry that Trump spent his day posting nonsense instead of fixing the problems he was elected to solve.
In response, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said, “Truth Social is the most powerful and popular social media platform in the world because it provides President Trump’s authentic voice, where he talks directly to the American people and the world without biased media taking him out of context.”
But last weekend’s posts were just the latest from a president known for causing online controversy.
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