President Donald Trump began the day after Christmas with a self-indulgent posting, boasting about everything from firing federal employees to Bill Clinton’s appearance in the Epstein files.
As Americans awoke from their Christmas slumber on Friday morning, Trump, 79, launched into a social media tirade, posting an average of once every two minutes on his Truth social platform.
“Trump is doing an amazing job!” He made the announcement alongside a graph of crime rates falling last year.
President Donald Trump has celebrated the holiday season with an endless stream of incendiary posts. / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
The rapid-fire rant began shortly after 7:30 a.m. with a link to an article from the conservative website Just the News talking about Trump’s immigration policies.
Seconds later, in another article in the same publication, a former Defense Department official warned that “terrorists may one day aerosolize fentanyl.”
Less than a minute later, Trump posted an item promoting the fact that Clinton featured prominently in the Epstein files — despite Trump expressing sympathy for the former president days earlier.
Bill Clinton and the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. / Department of Justice
“I don’t like pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don’t like pictures of other people being shown. I think it’s a terrible thing,” he told reporters Monday.
Trump then launched another wave of posts celebrating tougher visa restrictions and pushing his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, before bragging that federal employment would hit new lows this year due to mass firings of government workers.
“Great news for America!” Trump boasted with a graph showing how much federal jobs have fallen since his administration axed the civil service.
Trump launched into a post-Christmas Day self-soothing rant. / true social
The bouts of self-indulgence came as Trump spent the holidays at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida—with some of his family members notably absent.
Trump’s favorite daughter Ivanka posted photos “from the mountains” with her husband Jared Kushner and their children, which looked like Aspen, Colorado, as well as wishing her Christmas with family and “the family of your choice” on X.
However, Trump spent an awkward-looking Christmas Eve with first lady Melania Trump, 55, and her father, Victor Knavs.
As the three sat together for an extravagant dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday night, Trump was left out of a conversation between his wife and his father.
In photos that have been widely mocked online, Trump is photographed sitting nonchalantly at a table, before he sees the camera, prompting a demonstrative fist pump.
He then marked Christmas Day in his usual incendiary fashion, firing off nearly 200 truthful social posts in which he complained about everything from the 2020 election, the media, Democrats, Somali immigrants, and other favorite targets.
He sought to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, as files released by the Justice Department reveal a new relationship between the president and the late sex trafficker.
“Merry Christmas to everyone, including the many sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his island, attended his parties, and thought they were the greatest man on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too heated, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, Donald didn’t know, he said, “He’s a stranger, Donald said. Jay Trump, who was actually the only person to drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so,” Trump wrote.
The message stood in stark contrast to greetings from other world leaders and sparked an immediate reaction on social media.
“The president of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it,” said former Republican Medas Touch news editor Ron Filipkowski.
