Trump unleashes nearly 200 posts in wild Christmas Day spree

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump marked Christmas Day not with quiet reflection but with an extraordinary burst of online activity, flooding his Truth Social platform with nearly 200 posts that reignited old grievances, amplified conspiracy theories, and lashed out at familiar political enemies.

The posting spree unfolded during the early hours of Christmas Day, following Trump’s holiday celebrations at Mar-a-Lago, where he attended a Christmas dinner with his wife and father-in-law before wishing the public a Merry Christmas, including, pointedly, what he referred to as “Radical Left Scum.”

It remains unclear whether Trump, 79, personally authored the barrage of posts or if they were scheduled in advance. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump revives debunked claims about 2020 presidential election

Among the posts was a video featuring longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, who again made baseless claims that 315,000 votes had been added to Biden’s tally in Fulton County, Georgia.

Giuliani has since been indicted in Georgia for his efforts to overturn the election and was separately found guilty of defaming two Georgia poll workers he accused of fraud.

Despite those legal outcomes, Trump shared content supporting calls for the two women, a 66-year-old grandmother and her 41-year-old daughter, to “pay back” Giuliani, who previously settled a $148 million defamation judgment under the condition that he stop defaming them.

Trump also reposted claims from a Truth Social user known as WallStreetApes, asserting without evidence that Michigan’s 2020 election was “rigged,” continuing a narrative that courts and election officials across multiple states have repeatedly rejected.

COVID conspiracy theories and familiar culture-war talking points

The president’s Christmas posts did not stop at election denial.

Trump also amplified a conspiracy theory shared by comedian Roseanne Barr, who claimed Democrats engineered the Covid-19 pandemic to expand mail-in voting and sabotage Trump’s reelection bid.

Attacks on Somali immigrants and Rep Ilhan Omar intensify

Trump’s online tirade also included inflammatory content targeting Somali immigrants and Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who was born in Somalia and became a US citizen as a teenager.

The president reposted a video of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who claimed that Democrats want to turn the United States into “a version of Somalia.”

“When you see the state of Somalia, that’s what they want for America,” Miller said in the clip. “Because it’s easier to rule over an empire of ashes than it is for the Democratic Party to rule over a functioning, Western, high-trust society with a strong middle class.”

Trump followed the video by sharing commentary questioning Omar’s citizenship, including a clip from former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. He then escalated the rhetoric with a blunt demand: “Throw her out of the US, Now!”

Trump disputes economic pessimism with selective data

In between political attacks, Trump attempted to counter gloomy economic polling by sharing a Fox News interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the clip, Lutnick claimed that because the US economy grew by 4.3 percent in the third quarter, “all” Americans would make “4.3 percent more money,” a statement economists have widely criticized as misleading and overly simplistic.

Trump used the interview to argue that economic conditions are far better than Democrats and the media have portrayed, a recurring theme in his messaging.