And who is it that’s assembling and writing most of these deranged late-night social media posts for Trump?

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR 

+ I don’t always read Heather Cox Richardson (because, frankly, one can hardly keep up with her, given that dishes need to be washed, the grass needs to be cut, the dog needs to be walked, a baseball game needs to be watched), but this pretty accurately sums up the current mental state of the person running our country…

Over the course of three hours last night, he posted on social media fifty-five times. Those posts accused a number of those Trump considers his personal enemies, including former president Barack Obama, of treason…reposted a fake quotation from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) accusing Obama of making a personal fortune of $120 million from the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare…. He posted an AI image of Obama, Biden, and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently swimming in a filthy version of the reflecting pool with the caption: “Dumacrats Love Sewage.” Then he posted an image of himself on the $100 bill. And then he was back to calling House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) “Low IQ.”

After posting a number of AI images showing the U.S. military destroying the Iranian military, Trump posted: “When the Fake News says that the Iranian enemy is doing well, militarily, against us, it’s virtual TREASON in that it is such a false, and even preposterous, statement. They are aiding and abetting the enemy!”

Then he posted an image of a map with Venezuela overlaid with the U.S. flag. The caption read: “51st State.

And who is it that’s assembling and writing most of these deranged late-night social media posts for Trump? Natalie Harp, who looks as if she walked right out of Trump Central Casting: blonde, svelte, an adoring supplicant to Trump’s divinity on Earth. She’ll probably have an absolutely fabulous second career as a Fox News anchorette.

 To the mounting frustration of White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles, who has to clean up the mid-morning damage inflicted by these after-hours rants, Harp answers to no one at the White House other than Trump, who very personally approves each post.

+ Trump and his late-night social media helper, Natalie Harp, on a Marine One flight. Harp is the person who presented Trump with the Obamas as apes video and Trump as Jesus meme for posting on Truth Social...(I had to scroll through about 15 seconds in the video clip of Trump’s excitedly nodding head to capture that revelatory smile on Harp’s face.) 

+ As for Wiles, she appears to be slowly being driven mad by her duties keeping the Oval Office running. These are the eyes of someone you wouldn’t want to ride alone with on an elevator in a Brian DePalma movie…

 

COUNTERPUNCH