President Donald Trump went on a day-long social media spree Sunday, posting at least 105 times on Truth Social, a day after his July 4 speech was beset by weather problems.
Late on Saturday night Trump gave a partisan speech to thousands of supporters in Washington, D.C., who had been waiting more than an hour in the rain. While the speech started at 11 p.m., he had earlier warned he would wait until 2 a.m. to start if necessary.
The next day he returned to his usual Truth Social activities with a vengeance, with posts attacking his opponents, showing off photos of his father and uncle, and boasting about his accomplishments.
Throughout the day Sunday, Trump rattled off more than 100 Truth Social posts, with at least half a dozen related to attacks on a federal judge who recently ruled against his administration’s attempts to use a database of U.S. citizen’s private information to screen voter rolls.
The president posted screenshots of X posts from allies attacking Judge Sparkle Sooknanan for making the ruling, insinuating she ruled against the administration because she was born in Trinidad and Tobago.
In another dozen or so posts, the president shared images of statues recently regilded, the renovated columns of the White House North Portico, clear water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, refurbished fountains around D.C., and more beautification projects.
In-between the cluster of posts, the president also highlighted that his account was the most popular on TikTok, thanked FIFA for reinstating U.S. player Folarin Balogun after a red card in a previous game that would have ruled him out of the USA’s next match in the World Cup, and shared an old photo of actor Macaulay Culkin. Trump appeared in a cameo in Culkin’s movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in 1992.
Later in the day he posted photos of two relatives: his father, Fred Trump, who he referred to as his “mentor,” and his uncle John G. Trump, an electrical engineer and professor at MIT. The president has often praised his uncle, calling him a “super genius” and claiming his uncle’s scientific knowledge reflects well on him, telling CNN in 2016: “It’s in my blood. I’m smart.”
He has also told a fictional story about his uncle teaching Ted Kaczynski, who was later revealed to be a domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber.
John Trump died in 1985, while the president’s father, a self-made property developer, passed away in 1999.
It’s not uncommon for the president to rattle off a wide-range of posts on his preferred social media account on weekends or holidays. Trump is known for going on posting sprees on Truth Social late at night as well.
White House aides occasionally assist the president in posting on Truth Social including Natalie Harp, who has access to Trump’s account and shares clusters of posts with his approval, the New York Times reported.
Many of the president’s Sunday posts showed off the progress on his various construction and cleanup projects.
One post showed off three-story-tall banners hung on the Department of the Interior building one that says “America’s first” President George Washington and another that says “America first” President Trump.
Another post claimed the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was bluer after being refilled by the Trump administration, compared to the Obama administration.
The president recently renovated the Reflecting Pool, which has long-faced problems with algae blooming on the surface, and insisted his administration fixed the problem. After algae reappeared on the pool, the administration accused a man of slashing holes in the newly-installed liner to sabotage it. The man had said he is innocent.
Trump also showed off a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln, that is to be featured on his Triumphal Arch in D.C.
Sunday’s spree also including harsh criticisms of Judge Sooknanan, who issued a ruling in June blocking the administration from allowing states to screen their voter rolls with a database of citizens’ information. Trump allies boasted anti-immigration rhetoric by accusing Judge Sooknanan of being disloyal to the U.S. because she was not born in the U.S.
Trump shared a screenshot of a post from right-wing commentator Alex Lorusso: “There should be no judge called Sparkle Sooknanan in America.”
Another screenshot, from conservative radio host Jesse Kelly, read: “Now you know why the communists brought in 20 million foreigners as fast as they could when Biden got installed.”
Later in the afternoon, the president boasted that 400,000 people showed up to the National Mall Saturday evening watch his speech and fireworks show but that only 150,000 people were able to watch because crowds were evacuated due to a severe storm warning.
Trump said he personally “overturned that decision” from federal officials.
