It was another sleepless night on Truth Social for the sitting president.
In what can only be described as a social media storm, Donald Trump fired off dozens of posts in the early hours, with Barack Obama squarely in the crosshairs. The former president, who left office nearly a decade ago, has never quite escaped Trump's radar but this particular episode stood out even by Trump's own standards.
Over a five-hour window, Trump shared roughly 54 posts. Some were duplicates. Others were videos allegedly showing Black individuals committing crimes or behaving improperly a pattern critics were quick to call out as racially charged. And scattered throughout the barrage were multiple posts pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories about Obama and the 2016 presidential election.
The "Spy Gate" Theory Makes Another Appearance
One of the central claims Trump kept circling back to was the idea that Obama weaponized federal surveillance tools to spy on Trump's campaign before the 2016 election. It's a theory Trump has previously labeled "the biggest political crime in American history, by far." No credible investigation has supported that claim, but it remains a cornerstone of Trump's political grievances.
He also reshared a post from the popular MAGA account "Catturd" on X, which accused Obama of manufacturing the Russian interference narrative entirely. The post bluntly called Obama "a traitor" and demanded his arrest a sentiment Trump amplified to his millions of followers without hesitation.
"Arrest Them All"
Perhaps the most striking post of the night was one that ended with a sweeping demand for mass arrests and prosecutions, before singling out Obama by name. The language was unambiguous and inflammatory, calling for charges of "treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy." Legal experts and political commentators have consistently noted that none of the allegations Trump references carry any evidentiary foundation in the public record.
A Pivot to the Lincoln Memorial Pool and Back Again
In a somewhat jarring shift, Trump also used the overnight posting session to go after the New York Times over its coverage of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations. The Times had reported the repairs would run around $13.1 million significantly more than the $1.8 million figure Trump had previously cited.
Trump slammed the paper as "one of the worst newspapers anywhere in the World," accusing it of hemorrhaging subscribers and consistently getting stories wrong. He then tied the criticism back to Obama and Joe Biden, suggesting the two former presidents had botched an earlier attempt to fix what he described as a "long broken, unsightly, and unsanitary" pool before declaring that the pool now sits "majestically" thanks to his administration.
Public Reaction: Concern and Criticism
Not everyone was willing to let the posts scroll by without comment. One X user responded directly to the wave of content, writing that the posts amounted to "off-the-charts lunacy" and "insane made-up nonsense." The user went further, suggesting that anyone who takes such claims at face value "belongs in a psychiatric ward," and flatly called Trump "a madman in the WH."
The reaction reflects a broader divide Trump's base tends to embrace these kinds of posts as fighting spirit, while critics see them as a dangerous escalation of rhetoric from someone currently holding the most powerful office in the world.
Why It Matters
These aren't just midnight rants disappearing into the void. When a sitting president publicly calls for the arrest of a predecessor on charges as serious as treason without presenting any legal basis it sends a signal. It normalizes the use of presidential platforms to target political opponents, and it keeps the temperature of American political discourse at a near-constant boil.
Obama has not publicly responded to the latest round of attacks. His office has not issued a statement. But the pattern is clear: nearly a decade after leaving the White House, he remains one of Trump's most consistent targets and apparently, his name is never too far from Trump's fingertips, no matter the hour.
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