Before the sun even rose today in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump was already wide awake and posting on social media at 5:50 AM. While hidden away somewhere in the White House, the President of the United States shared a disturbing and dangerous message that included “THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite!” This was just the first of many things he said today on Truth Social. Instead of working for the American people to create a safer and more united country, he instead chose to spend the day creating further division and sharing disinformation and lies.
This is what he said in that first post:
“The Democrat Party, lead by one of the most Corrupt and anti-American groups of political leaders and hacks in the history of our Country, and even the World, is doing everything in their power to get away from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump Administration is corrupt. It is a sound bite that they viciously use, over and over again, in order to nullify the TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED theft that has taken place in our Blue States - Minnesota, California, and others, all over the U.S.A. I, perhaps foolishly because the Fake News refuses to write about it, including in my First Term, don’t even take a Salary, worth Millions of Dollars. I am the only President to have done so! In any event, THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite! Fight hard, Republicans, or you won’t have a Country left! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
He didn’t stop there. His meltdown continued throughout the day and included a telephone interview where he made equally disturbing and inflammatory statements. He did all this, once again, when he was nowhere to be seen. His official schedule listed seven so-called engagements, all behind closed doors, and all closed to the press. In fact, the schedules released for the next three days all show vague descriptions of what he will be doing, and all are closed to the press, meaning no eyes on the president. The majority of these “events” are all labeled as variations of him “participating in” “executive time” and “policy meetings.” Most likely generic titles to make it look like his schedule is jam-packed, and every single one of these carefully staged entries, if they actually were to occur, would most likely be with loyalists who would cover for him regardless of his physical or cognitive ability to actually participate. After the marathon performances he attempted while campaigning last month, I’d imagine that could very well be the case: that he is struggling both cognitively and physically, or he could be receiving some unknown treatment. He is most likely back to his old ways, sequestered away in the White House, hunched over in a leather chair, with the television blaring in the background while whatever aides are still there tiptoe around him and feed him whatever he wants to hear. If all these planned meetings actually happen, no doubt very little actual governing will get done.
While it looks like he will be continuing his time away from the public eye through the weekend, in true Trump fashion, he made sure we didn’t forget about him through what he posted and the unhinged interview he gave. Of course, nothing should surprise us anymore when it comes to Donald Trump. But it is still shocking that nearly two years into his second term, this is how the President of the United States continues to behave. This is an office that once commanded dignity and carried an enormous responsibility to the American people and the rest of the world, and this is what the man holding that office still chooses to do and say.
For the President of the United States to publicly declare that an entire political party is “CORRUPT AND EVIL,” while claiming that he is the exact opposite, is not just absurd. It is dangerous. He is telling Americans that their fellow citizens are corrupt, evil, and anti-American, and he is warning them to “Fight hard” or they “won’t have a Country left.” The words he is using could get real people hurt. He is not talking about a credible foreign enemy threatening our country. He is talking about Americans, and he is doing it because our elected officials are preparing to investigate his administration and hold him and his enablers accountable for what he has done. That is what makes this so revealing. He doesn’t want accusations of corruption against his own administration investigated, so he is attacking the people who will do the investigating and declaring himself the exact opposite of everything he accuses them of being. He has no respect for the enormous power of the office he holds. He treats the presidency itself as a weapon to attack anyone who dares to challenge him. He will be remembered for this and as a morally corrupt man melting down on social media.
This is the President of the United States. What he says matters. His words still carry weight, and when he talks like this, it gives a green light to the worst people in this country. It tells them it’s okay to dehumanize their fellow Americans, to escalate, and to act. It tells them that the people who disagree with Donald Trump are enemies of the country and that fighting against them is somehow an act of patriotism to fulfill the prophecy he’s setting into motion. Every time we allow this to pass as just another ordinary day in America, we move further away from the country we once were and closer to the kind of country where the people in power can do whatever they want, while the people who dare to challenge them become the enemy.
This latest round of threats and intimidation from Trump goes back to this past Monday, when White House counsel Will Scharf sent a letter to Representative Robert Garcia, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Garcia, who you might remember told Trump and those enabling him to “Lawyer up” after the blue wave materialized, made it abundantly clear that Democrats intend to investigate the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, ICE operations, the Trump family’s business dealings, and the White House construction projects, along with other potential corruption. That absolutely infuriated and concerned the White House. Scharf’s letter warned that these investigations could amount to, in his words, “blatant criminality.” He wrote that “threats to executive branch officials designed to deter them from public service, or process designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
Attorney General Todd Blanche went even further over the weekend, insinuating that the Department of Justice might actually prosecute Democratic lawmakers for issuing subpoenas. The Trump administration is threatening to criminalize oversight.
Garcia’s response to this latest attempt at intimidation was just as direct as his prior comment: “It appears Donald Trump has something to hide.” He also reminded the White House that Congress does not need the “permission of the White House” to investigate.
Then came the interview later in the day when Donald Trump called into the Hugh Hewitt Show and gave responses that were scattered and increasingly detached from reality. He told Hewitt that his popularity is “maybe higher now than it was,” despite the fact that his party just lost both chambers of Congress. He claimed that when he did thirty rallies in twenty-seven days before the midterms, “there was love in those rooms,” and then he admitted that he was “a little bit surprised” Republicans did not do better. He said that “whoever Trump chooses” will be the 2028 Republican nominee, that he is “batting almost a thousand” on endorsements. He also said that the only thing Democrats could impeach him on is “making America great.”
When Hewitt asked about Chinese espionage and AI, he responded by saying he was knowledgeable on this subject because he is “genetically blessed” due to his uncle being a professor at MIT decades ago, and then added about Chinese spying, “We also go after them. You know, it’s not just a one-sided deal.”
Donald Trump is limiting and carefully choosing where he is seen and who he talks to for a reason. His base is losing momentum, and he is facing increasing hostility and less of the ego-boosting praise he has grown accustomed to. The MAGA propaganda that used to flood every corner of the internet is much quieter now. His own people are exhausted by him, and he can feel it. That is part of what we are watching in these early-morning meltdowns and rambling interviews. He is performing for a crowd that is thinning, and he knows it. When asked about 2028, he’s all but abandoned the rampant teasing that he will run again.
This is our window. Not to rest, but to really push through. Because come January, Robert Garcia will open those hearings on all sorts of subjects that the president does not want us looking into or talking about. The trafficking files they have fought so hard to keep hidden, ICE abuses, his family’s corruption, and that of his inner circle of enablers. All of it, under oath, on camera, and in front of the American people, and the world.
Those hearings are about so much more than just holding these people accountable for what they have done. They are an opportunity for this country to remember what accountability is supposed to look like. For parents and grandparents to sit with their kids and watch a functioning Congress do its job, to point at the screen and say, this is how it works, this is what we were missing, this is what happens when people show up and vote and demand better. Our young people have grown up in an era where our government has been struggling too long to function the way it was supposed to. This time will be different, because the momentum is there, and the people sent it there on November 3.
That is going to be our greatest challenge going forward: reminding everyone that what we have lived through is not normal, and then building our way toward something better, a new normal that is better aligned with where we really want this country to be going. Donald Trump might have been the one to finally break something in our country. But we get to decide what we build from here, and we can build something better than it ever was. That is why I still have hope for America. And you should, too.
I’ll see you tomorrow,
Heather
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Picture of the day: This picture came up in my memories from almost four years ago. I remember this moment very clearly. My youngest was growing sicker as we searched for answers, and I vividly remember thinking that at least Trump wasn’t the president anymore. It was an odd way for my brain to cope, but it was as if I was telling myself that our country had survived his destruction and that life could get better. Unfortunately, it took a few more years for us to finally get my daughter’s celiac diagnosis and for her to start feeling better. And you guessed it, that was right around the time Trump came back into power. I guess I traded one fight for another. This time around, when the next presidential election comes, we need to make sure the midterm energy is still flowing. Right now, I know we are tired. We just put in a huge effort to get where we are. But come January, we have to double down and get ready for the next big elections because, believe it or not, they will be starting then. I’m actually looking forward to this. We need a strong Democrat to step forward and remind us what actual leadership looks like.
Links to sources used in writing this article:
President Trump returns to The Hugh Hewitt Show: YouTube replay
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/12/trump-iran-deal-hormuz-strait.html
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/08/todd-blanche-doj-prosecuting-democrats-oversight
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-manic-550am-meltdown-reveals-his-biggest-fear
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/trump-democrats-investigations-robert-garcia
Why would Trump need his presidential salary when his corrupt dealings are making him that much money every 70 minutes?
When did we last hear those words ? 'fight and fight hard' . Everyone in the country, in the whole world knows this old man is deranged. Has the nuclear codes, what more will it take before the 25th is acted upon ?