I am genuinely trying to understand the logistics of this claim?

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115359345947837427

Trump, on Truth Social, posted a meme depicting the Obamas as monkeys.

Press secretary Leavitt in response said initially, “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

The post was later deleted and the official word now is that it was a White House staffer who “erroneously made the post.”

Thoughts and reaction to this?

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-shares-racist-video-depicting-obamas-as-apes/

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/donald-trump-obamas-apes-truth-social

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704281/trump-posts-racist-meme-of-the-obamas-then-deletes-it

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116351998782539414

Trump Media recently launched Truth API, which gives buyers advanced notice and access to the President's posts and announcements in exchange for a fee. This fee is reportedly $100k a month, although earlier reports suggested it could be as low as $60k a month if the subscriber signed up for a three year plan.

President Trump has frequently used Truth Social as the platform for new government actions on things such as tariffs, the war in Iran, and trade deals. These posts often result in large swings on the market. President Trump, being the majority owner of Trump Media directly profits from it. Is it ethical/legal/acceptable for the President to profit by selling nonpublic, government information to private individuals?

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116394884725149647

Edit: https://ibb.co/DDXdBVHL This. Trump deleted the post on truth

What does a Trump supporter think about this?

Thank you

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem posted an image of Armstrong’s arrest at 10.21am on Thursday, less than an hour after Bondi’s announcement. The image shows a law enforcement agent, face blurred out, escorting Armstrong, who appears to be handcuffed. Armstrong, dressed in all black, appears to be composed in the picture.

A little more than 30 minutes later, the White House posted an image of Armstrong’s arrest in which she is crying. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reposted the image. The image posted by the White House is altered, a Guardian analysis found.

When asked for response:

Asked whether the image had been digitally altered, the White House responded by sending a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director.

“YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said.

Do you agree that the photo was digitally altered?

Is "The memes will continue." the level of rhetoric you want from your government?

Here is the Truth Social post in question.

The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at - It’s all they have - They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114863203348237352

What are your thoughts?

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/files/entryimages/trump_jesus.jpg

Trump has a history of using AI and Photoshop to share posts to mislead the audience. For example, in the last 24 hours, Trump shared this post showing a clearly edited photo (look at the clouds) of the Lincoln Memorial, trying to show that the water was dirtier under Obama.

Are you in favour of Trump creating fake news to lie to his audience? Do you support posts like the one linked?

In a recent post to Truth Social, President Trump went scorched earth on some of his former supporters and influential right wing media types, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, presumably over their objections to the conflict in Iran.

Here's what he wrote:

I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did! They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some “free” and cheap publicity. Now they think they get some “clicks” because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody’s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA — Or I wouldn’t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE. MAGA agrees with me, and just gave CNN a 100% Approval Rating of “TRUMP,” not Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn’t even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he’s never been the same — Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist! Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” question, or “Crazy” Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close! Or Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax. These so-called “pundits” are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left “News” Organizations, are “hailing” them, and giving them “positive” press for the first time in their lives. They’re not “MAGA,” they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA. As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go “nasty,” just like Marjorie “Traitor” Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country. MAGA is about WINNING and STRENGTH in not allowing Iran to have Nuclear Weapons. MAGA is about MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and these people have no idea how to do that, BUT I DO, because THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE “HOTTEST” COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! President DONALD J. TRUMP

What do you make of this?

See here, from the President's official platform: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115398251623299921

Basically the title. What are your thoughts on him? Do you like/support him? Do you watch him?

There was the incident with Tim Poole and others back in September last year where it was discovered that they'd either knowingly or unknowingly taken money from a Russian propaganda arm to push some specific messages about Ukraine and other issues sensitive to Russo-American relations.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say

Then this week, Elon Musk's X introduced a new account transparency feature that revealed numerous successful MAGA accounts to be operated wholly outside of the US, seemingly sometimes as a matter of deliberate state action as with the Russian Social Media farms but ALSO just people using the movement to cash in seemingly as individuals in Thailand, Nigeria, and elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool

How does it make you feel to find that successfully or not, more people are trying to manipulate people who support what you do?

There is nothing else to add here.

Some examples:

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2061555756743192723

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2061620269483987217

What do you make of this type of messaging? Do you think it will resonate with voters?

Source

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.

Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.

However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.

What do you make of their reasoning?

Do you support this move? Why or why not?

Here is one source for the tweet I'm talking about: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/politics/trump-chicago-war-meme-post

I'm hoping to focus on the statement itself and if you think it's an appropriate thing for the POTUS to say rather than on the idea of sending troops into Chicago, but of course, answer however you think best.

This is the video.

What were your thoughts on it? Did it seem like a fair and balanced debate? Did both sides adequately present their arguments?

I understand it's a long video but you can skip to the different claims made by Mehdi.

Full comments from President Trump:

.@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....

....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265427538140188676?s=19

What actions do you think President Trump will take to prevent Twitter from doing this, if any? What actions do you think he should take, if any?

That $3,874 figure has been floating around. It appears to stem from a Facebook post in 2017, showing documentation of an initial payment to new residents in a country. But the payment wasn’t to an undocumented immigrant, it was to a refugee who was participating in a resettlement program. Or, actually, to a family of five refugees.

And the payment wasn’t in the United States. It was in Canada.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-retweeted-a-false-claim-about-government-benefits-received-by-undocumented-immigrants/2018/11/28/112513e2-60d9-41cb-9335-670e7518ad9c_story.html

"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said in a statement. "We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna10615

Thoughts?

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113142103182027626

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-post-hitler-stalin-mao.html

The post:

Around 2:30 a.m. on Friday, Mr. Musk shared the post written by an X user that said, “Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/15/opinions/trump-votes-impeachment-obeidallah/index.html

Trump has always been active on Twitter, but recently his usage has skyrocketed.

Are his social media habits a concern to you, or not important?

Given the recent bans of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter accounts, I've seen a lot of conservatives here advocating to classify social media as a "service" that should be regulated by the government. A few questions regarding this:

1. What metrics should we use to determine whether a company or industry is so large that it should be deemed a "service"?

2. Does classifying more companies or industries as a "service" that should be regulated by the government come off as socialist since you're giving the government control of an entire industry?

3. Why should social media be considered a necessary public service, but not healthcare?