President Donald Trump has shared bizarre fantasy plans for his next branded tower.
In a Truth Social posting frenzy that began on Sunday night and continued into early Monday, the 79-year-old shared a flurry of posts on several issues. After slating rocker Bruce Springsteen’s looks, and congratulating Irish golfer Rory McIlroy on his Masters success, he took aim at the head of the Catholic church.
He slammed American Pope Leo XIV for criticizing the war in Iran. He then posted an AI-generated image that appeared to show himself as Jesus Christ, igniting fury across the political spectrum. But Trump’s spree was not over. After depicting himself as the Son of God just one week after Easter, he turned to plans to expand his real estate portfolio.
Without comment, he posted another mocked-up image at around 11 p.m. Sunday, showing a Trump tower on the moon’s surface. The shimmering structure sits amid lunar rocks, with the president’s name splashed across it twice.
Trump has used mocked-up images of his towers to indicate interest in an area before. In August 2019, he admitted that he was “strategically” interested in buying Greenland from Denmark, an obsession he has returned to during his second term. “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” he tweeted at the time, with an enormous, golden Trump tower thrusting above local houses in Greenland.
He has also floated the idea of filling Gaza with skyscrapers.
His posting spree appeared to wind down with a link to a story about the White House ballroom he intends to build and a link, posted at around 4 a.m., to an ego-stroking New York Post piece about his perceived successes in the failed Iran negotiations.
The moon might be on the president’s mind after he experienced an awkward moment with the four-man Artemis II crew during their space flight.
Last Tuesday, he called the lunar flyby spacecraft to catch up with the four astronauts—Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen.
But the chat, after 12 minutes, devolved into awkward silence after Hansen went out of his way to thank the president on behalf of Canada for allowing him to participate in the mission. Trump responded by mentioning one of the few Canadians he knows, NHL Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky.
Trump told Hansen that Gretzky, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and “other friends” he has in Canada were all proud of him. “You have a lot of courage. I’m not sure if they’d want to do that,” Trump told Hansen. “I’m not even sure if ‘The Great One’ would want to do that, to be honest with you,” he added, using Gretzky’s nickname.
“But you have a lot of courage doing what you’re doing, a lot of bravery and a lot of genius, but they’re very proud of you.”
In a deeply awkward moment, the astronauts did not respond. A full minute of silence followed, with Trump remaining quiet on the other end of the line as the crew smiled and let the microphone they were using to communicate float around.
“I think we might have gotten cut off,” Trump eventually said, attempting to brush off the silence. “It is a long distance, it’s a long ways. The reception’s been great,” he continued, before blaming the awkwardness on a “nine-second delay.”
