Trump celebrated Independence Day with weird comments on Truth Social

On a day the country should have been rallying around the common notions of freedom and democracy, former president Donald Trump was working to undermine unity in the country once again with some bizarre posts to his social media platform Truth Social. 

Trump kicked off Independence Day with an early morning, re-truthing a post from a user that consisted of an image overlaid with the words: “81 million votes….. and I’ve never seen a pro-Biden hat, shirt, or flag in my life.”

The image was capped off with a flag underneath the text that looked similar in style to Trump’s Make America Great Again flags but read “F*** Biden” in oversized letters and continued underneath with the words: "And f*** you for voting for him!”

While the nature of the Truth Social post conforms quite well to the message the former president has been relaying to his supporters while out on the campaign trail, this was just the opening salvo in a day that saw several weird and sad posts from Trump online. 

Trump re-truthed another photo that showed him in front of a burning White House with the words “Trump was right,” an image of the Hollywood Hills with the words changed to “Trump Won,” and a Simpson’s meme insinuating Joe Biden suffered from dementia. 

Photo credit: Truth Social @STKOLBEOFPOLAND

The former president reminded his followers about the recent gaffe Biden made about Putin losing the war in Iraq, noting that’s when everybody knew “we have a confirmed, and very dangerous, Idiot in the White House. The USA cannot have this go on!”

But it wasn’t just Biden who bore the brunt of Trump's ire. GOP presidential nomination challenger Ron DeSantis re-truthing a post from a user named Catturd revealing poll numbers showing the Republican primary would be a blowout for Trump.

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Trump also re-truthed several other posts from Catturd ranging from a message about what electing different kinds of politicians would do to America to a message about Joe Biden hiring 87,000 IRS agents to go after Americans while his son didn’t his pay taxes.

Photo credit: Truth Social @realDonaldTrump

The former president also posted a short one-minute video of himself speaking over images from a recent rally in Pickens, South Carolina about what the Fourth of July meant, it was the one message where Trump tried to spur a little unity in the country. 

Later in the day, Trump posted a fictionalized image of himself dressed in the uniform of a Revolutionary War general. It’s too bad the image was posted hours after Trump railed against Jack Smith and the other people working to bring the former president to justice for his alleged crimes. 

In comparison, Biden’s message to the American people on the Fourth of July was what one would expect from a sitting president that’s been working to heal the nation, it was a message of unity given out to military families on the South Lawn of the White House.

"Today, we celebrate our independence. We celebrate our liberty and our freedom. And Jill and I are honored to spend the day with so many military families," Biden explained according to Newsweek.

"You represent a link in the chain of honor that stretches back to our founding days. You are the sinew, the backbone, the reality of why we're who we are. Unbreaking. Unbending," Biden continued. 

"Throughout our history, you remind us that democracy is never, never, never guaranteed. Every generation must fight to maintain it. We must always cherish it, defend it, and strengthen it," Biden added.

Biden shared another message on his Twitter account just before midnight of himself and the First Lady enjoying the fireworks show, celebrating liberty and freedom at what he called “the People’s House” in a message meant to sow unity among all Americans.

Both men revealed something about their leadership styles on Independence Day but it wasn’t anything most Americans didn’t already know. If the 2024 election comes down to Biden and Trump it could be one of the most interesting the country has ever seen.