On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump fired off a barrage of Truth Social posts targeting an array of domestic and foreign entities long familiar with his relentless criticism.
In the span of roughly 90 minutes, he singled out the Supreme Court, The Wall Street Journal, the renewable energy industry and the Iranian regime.
The president’s online remarks capped off his day at the White House, during which he attended policy meetings, hosted college athletes in the State Dining Room and participated in a marathon Bible-reading event.
Here is a breakdown of what the 79-year-old Republican president said on Tuesday evening.
6:56 p.m. – ‘Ineffective’ Wind farms
Shortly before 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump announced that a pair of Pennsylvania coal plants that had been slated to close in 2028 will be kept open.
Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, and the Commerce Department agreed to maintain operations at the plants located in Armstrong and Indiana Counties, he said.
“Radical Left Lunatics wanted to get rid of these wonderful Plants in favor of WIND FARMS, which kill the birds, and are both costly and ineffective,” the president wrote. “We will never allow that to happen!”
Trump has long campaigned against wind energy, repeatedly branding wind farms as noisy, unsightly, inefficient and harmful enough to drive “the whales crazy.” Scientists have disputed his claims.
7:35 p.m. – WSJ has ‘LOST ITS WAY!’
Less than an hour later, the president tore into The Wall Street Journal, a New York-based news outlet owned by the media company of billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
The paper has “LOST ITS WAY,” the president wrote.
“An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, ‘The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.’ Really? For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters,” he continued.
“I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way,” he said, describing the outlet as “just another failing political ‘RAG!’”
Kaufman responded by reposting an image of Trump’s Truth Social post on X, writing: “My wife: . . . you’re still going to do the dishes tonight, right?”
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The WSJ and the journalists and publishers who reported on an alleged “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, which the president claims does not exist.
The Independent has reached out to The WSJ for comment.
7:45 p.m. – ‘Politically correct’ Supreme Court
Shortly after, Trump posted a 340-word attack on the Supreme Court, targeting both its liberal and conservative justices, who have ruled against his administration in several high profile cases.
“Wacko James Carville, a so-called Democrat ‘strategist,’ wants the Democrats to make D.C. and Puerto Rico States and, most importantly, pack the Supreme Court, putting 13 Justices on the Court,” the GOP president wrote.
He claimed that Democrats are “already doing great” when it comes to the nation’s highest court.
“The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there,” he wrote. “Certain Republican Appointees let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how ‘independent’ they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them.”
In a 6-3 vote in February, the Supreme Court struck down the president’s sweeping tariff regime as unconstitutional, dealing a seismic blow to one of the president’s signature economic policies. The court is expected to rule on birthright citizenship — which Trump has attempted to end via executive order — before its summer recess.
8:36 p.m. – Iran and the Strait of Hormuz
The billionaire president then turned to foreign policy, zeroing in on the Iran war, which has engulfed large swaths of the Middle East in violence and sparked fears of worldwide economic chaos.
“Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day,” Trump wrote. “They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to ‘save face.’”
“People approached me four days ago, saying, ‘Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.’ But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included,” he added.
His comments came hours after Trump announced the U.S. would extend its ceasefire with Iran that was due to expire Wednesday, at the request of Pakistan authorities. Even amid the ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery of global trade, has remained mostly closed due to dueling blockades by Iran and the U.S.
“So we now have no timeline on the ceasefire, no timeline on the blockade and, let’s face it, no timeline on the war,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, told CNN after the extension was revealed. “Donald Trump has painted himself into a corner and he can’t find an exit.”
Multiple recent polls indicate a majority of Americans are opposed to the war, which has led to a surge in gas prices.
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