On the right is Trump’s first post since his return to Muck’s social media platform (Twitter, aka X) after being banned and Musk’s reply where he noted that there were “approximately 10 million views per hour of this image.” On the right is a post on Truth Social which Trump reposted.

Afernoon Update: Here’s a Trump post on Truth Social from this afternoon posted while there’s nothing but horrific news coming from Israel:

Back to my original blog from this morning:

Trump may be the only person who has a police mugshot on a mug. You can purchase various versions, pro or anti-Trump, from a number of companies. No doubt Trump wants you to buy them from him here:

He also wants you to purchase tokens that say he defeated Covid:

If you’re reading this I doubt you’ve ever clicked on Trump’s campaign website. This is what you’d see if you did on the top of the page:

This sends an ominious message about “them” no doubt meaning what he’s called by various names like the deep state, commies, socialists, Marxists, and without a sense of irony, fascists. When he sounds the alarm that “they’re after you” he wants you to be as terrifed of them, them, as if they are like the deadly bugs who invaded earth’s surface from where they lived in mile deep catacombs in the 1954 black and white sci-fi monster film “Them” (Wikipedia). They’re after you, what out for them!

Trump’s campaign website features a photo of him clapping for himself. I mean, really, who addresses a group and applauds themself?

Here’s an excerpt from the article “Trump Keeps Clapping for Himself Like a Fucking Maniac:”

We get it dude. You think you’re great. You think America is great. But 👏 please 👏stop 👏 clapping 👏 into 👏 the 👏 mic—you’re destroying America’s eardrums one terrible applause break at a time.

Rafi Schwartz in Splinter

Here’s another article:

Donald Trump Annoys Everyone by Clapping for Himself Directly Into a Microphone. Who knew such small, sweaty hands could produce such deafening sounds?

Excerpt:

On Tuesday night, President Trump gave his first State of the Union speech. These yearly speeches given by every president since Woodrow Wilson in 1913 don’t tend to be very exciting affairs, as they are long and intended to be directed at Congress. Boredom factor notwithstanding, many paid attention to Trump’s speech anyway. Those who did, noticed something they had never heard before in speeches of this kind: Trump clapping directly into the microphone over and over again—and to applaud things he had just said. The resulting sound was uncomfortable and upsetting, much like nearly every single news story about Trump since the beginning of time. Besides the annoying sound, though, it registered as yet another disturbing piece of evidence for Trump’s narcissism and childish behavior.  

USA Today lost track of how many times Trump clapped for himself at around 10, but it was actually much more than that.

Juiarp in Complex

This photo illustrates the following description:

The MAGA Movement

The American Way of Life is under attack while career politicians destroy our economy and sabotage our nation’s incredible potential. We will take our country back from the corrupt Washington establishment and return power to the American people, where it belongs. We will achieve a future of prosperity, security, and peace — creating once again the greatest economy in the history of the world, defending our borders, restoring energy independence, and leading with strength and pride on the world stage. It is time to put America First once more and usher in a glorious new era of faith, family, and freedom. Together, we will save lives, save jobs, and save America. Join me in our unstoppable mission to Make America Great Again.

Trump campaign website

He’s going to usher in a glorious new era of faith, family, and freedom. What in the name of holy Heaven does this mean? Faith, one might ask, whose faith is he refering to?

The only faith Trump has is in himself.

Family, I wonder, does this mean? He’s a twice divorced man who cheated on his first wife Ivana (possibly when she was pregnant) with Marla Maples and when he was married to Melania, in November 2016 Trump had an affair with Karen McDougal and also had sex with Stormy Daniels. I’m resisting writing anything about his relationship with Ivanka when she was younger and his behaviors with women which other men have ended up in prison for.

And as for freedom, where does one begin to try to define what Trump means about freedom?

I’m surprised he didn’t further promise to usher in a glorious Trumpian MAGA American Heaven with his having a direct hotline to Heaven where he will honor God by callling him on a regular basis.

You might admire the marketing genius who decided to call his merch “MAGA Gear” although I would have added the slogan “Trump Gear, Don’t Leave Home Without It” because what’s MAGA without Trump?

Gear [usually with modifier]  is defined as equipment that is used for a particular purpose: camping gear. • informal clothing, especially of a specified kind: designer gear.

Online dictionary

Come to think of it after seeing the example above perhaps his crap should be called “Official Trump Designer Ultra-MAGA Gear.”

I’m surprised that nobody else thought of using the photo of Trump hugging the flag to use the image I made and put this on a t-shirt:

For a mere $43 you can get your very own 3×5 foot Trump flag:

I’m surprised he isn’t trying to compete with those who are selling Trump mechandise like the following on Esty.

Trump tried to grift off of the glitter of his name with Trump Steaks, Trump Wine, Trump Ice (water), and Trump University. He aspired to be the Monach of Merch.

Perhaps he’s given up.

In case anyone doesn’t get it, when you scroll down towards the bottom of the campaign website page you are told that Trump is your voice and that he will put America first!

At the very bottom of the page there’s a video about his Agenda 47:

Here’s what Salon’s Chauncey DeVega has to say about Agenda 47 in

Trump’s “Agenda 47” is no joke. This is not a joke or funny: You should be very afraid of Trump’s fascist Agenda 47 plan

Apparently so few people have subscribed to Truth Social Trump has taken to putting at least some posts on X, or at least has endorsed someone who is doing this.

The following was posted on Oct. 9th with a video of an old speech. It was not specified when it was given and to whom. It is made to seem as if he’s talking about the Hamas invasion.

Donald Trump Jr. still posts on X. This is what he has pinned to his page:

I scanned the replies to the above post and all but the following praised Trump.

Update: This is from Trump on Truth Social

Many are using an example of “just the way ISIS was defeated in Iraq and Syria, HAMAS will likewise be defeated.” Please remember that it was the Trump Administration that defeated ISIS, and quickly, after years of futile attempts by previous administrations! Someday we will be given proper credit for all of the many successes we had. In the meantime, we will do it again in 2024! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Truth Social

Not quite true to form Trump credits the “Trump administration” and uses the pronoun “we” instead of “I” in the post.

For no particular reason here’s a DonkeyHotey caricature to which I’ve added a caption:

One last thing. I thought the photoshop used (right below) on this article in Raw Story should have shown the much diminished Trump which I inserted on the leftbelow: