President Donald Trump shared a bizarre war meme as part of a Truth Social posting blitz on Monday evening.
Trump’s post came shortly after Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, confirmed renewed strikes on Iran, labeling it as “self-defense.”
It also followed a boastful Memorial Day speech by the president at Arlington National Cemetery and a curious inspection of the White House entrance columns earlier in the day.
The 79-year-old commander-in-chief logged onto his social media platform just before 8 p.m. Monday night and began posting. He reposted his call during a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in Delhi last week, while posting more Memorial Day wishes in between.
He also bragged about the length of his newest MAGA makeover, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, comparing it to the size of skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building.
Just before 9 p.m, Trump shared one particularly wild post: a cartoon drawing contrasting “Obama’s Iran Policy” with “Trump’s Iran Policy.” The image depicted former President Barack Obama’s approach as a block of cash, while Trump’s “policy” was shown as a U.S. battleship shooting Iranian missiles out of the sky.
Trump made the post after U.S. military forces carried out strikes in Iran, which took place on Monday in southern Iran, attacking missile launch sites and boats that U.S. Central Command said were attempting to place mines.
The U.S. sank two boats belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that were laying mines, a senior U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal.
The official said Iran then fired surface-to-air missiles at U.S. warplanes, prompting the U.S. to strike a missile launch site near Bandar Abbas, an Iranian port city along the Strait of Hormuz.
The president had claimed earlier in the day that negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely.” He has not publicly commented on the new strikes; the White House referred the Daily Beast to CENTCOM’s statement when contacted for comment.
The president has repeatedly sought to contrast his yet-to-be-finalized Iran deal with Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran as he fends off Republican backlash over the negotiations.
“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump wrote on Sunday. “Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet.”
Earlier on Monday, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brushed aside Trump’s ongoing stream of Truth Social posts.
“We have more important works to do than responding to the U.S. president’s posts, or the other malicious media campaigns, including caricatures posted on the social platforms,” Baghaei said at a press conference, according to Al Jareeza.
Just before 6 p.m on Monday, Trump revisited his use of the catchphrase “nuclear dust” to describe the enriched uranium used in the making of nuclear bombs in a Truth Social post.
Prior to the announcement of the latest American military strike on Iran, Trump’s post insisted Iran’s uranium be “either immediately” turned over to the U.S. to be destroyed, or “preferably” destroyed with Iran’s co-operation at “another acceptable location.”
The president had also shared a post promoting his Save America Act. Another random post was titled “Trump’s America in 2026″ and featured a watercolor rendering of a house with a white picket fence, covered in American flags and bunting. A bicycle with sunflowers in the basket sat outside the house.
Trump ended his spree by sharing two articles from a conservative website. One claimed a Justice Department official in the Biden administration shared legal “concerns” on the FBI raid on the president’s Mar-a-Lago property.
