President Donald Trump fired off a series of wild messages on a number of topics during a flurry of activity on his Truth Social website in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
Trump railed against a judge, attacked PBS and NPR, defended his tariffs and sent a warning to Europe and Canada, which were once key U.S. allies.
And he did it all between 1 and 2 a.m. Eastern.
Trump first attacked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has ruled against him before and just picked up another case involving the president.
Trump ― who has said it should be “illegal” to criticize judges he appointed ― called it “statistically, IMPOSSIBLE” that Boasberg got another case, and accused him of having “Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome!” and “disqualifying family conflicts.”
Almost 20 minutes later, he attacked “completely biased” public broadcasters NPR and PBS as a “giant SCAM” and demanded that Congress cut funding to both:
Less than 10 minutes after that, he celebrated his impeding tariffs, which have triggered market volatility and fears of a recession.
In an all-caps message, he called the date that those tariffs kick in to be “LIBERATION DAY IN AMERICA” :
We Don't Work For Billionaires. We Work For You.
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Finally, at 1:50 a.m., he warned the European Union not to step in and help Canada in the face of the tariffs he’s imposing on the country or he would impose even bigger tariffs on both:
