What to Know
We all go a little wild on social media sometimes by being trigger happy with posts, memes, and likes. Some of us tend to post and then re-share memes or quotes to passive aggressively irk someone else in our lives. Apparently, so does the president. Except when normal, average, everyday people do it, it’s OK. Well, not totally OK, but it’s far more acceptable. When Donald Trump does it, the frenzied social media posting comes off as manic and irresponsible.
He is the leader of the free world, after all. And when he went on a meltdown from 7:20 p.m. until midnight in December 2025, CNN’s Jake Tapper clocked the activity in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Tapper shared a screen recording of Trump’s numerous posts on Truth Social during that 4.5 hour time frame, and if that isn’t proof that Trump needs to not be on social media, I don’t know what is.
The president posted/reposted more than 100 times last night from 7:20 pm to midnight, attacking Democrats and immigrants, pushing conspiracy theories (including from Alex Jones), proudly sharing the video when he called a woman reporter “stupid,” and much more. Wild stuff. pic.twitter.com/2wlsu32yq2
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) December 2, 2025
Donald Trump needs his phone taken away after 7 p.m.
Much like my 12-year-old son, Trump needs some restrictions on not only his phone, but also social media. Per Tapper’s X post, Trump went on Truth Social during that window of time to make new posts, but also share existing social media posts. In all, the number topped 100, and included a video from when Trump called a female reporter stupid. Some of the posts also included conspiracy theories that Trump seemingly supported by sharing those posts.
Another post he shared was from X wherein someone wrote that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump. Despite Trump winning the 2025 election and getting that second term he so desperately wanted, apparently, when he is up late with nothing else to do, he goes down a rabbit hole of the things that he is still totally butt hurt over.
Trump also re-posted Truth Social posts that spoke out against Barack Obama.
His posts also included content that supported conspiracies involving Obama and Democrats in general. The idea of Trump sitting on his phone into the late hours of the evening and repeatedly posting and sharing on social media is giving ‘bored elderly grandparents with nothing better to do but go on Facebook and share every awful meme and AI-generated post.’
When Tapper shared the X post about Trump’s social media binge, someone commented to say they believe Trump is “sundowning.” Per Mayo Clinic, sundowning is common among some elderly individuals diagnosed with dementia who might experience confusion late in the day or at night.
Someone else wrote, “So the logical conclusion is that he is mentally unfit and unwell.”
Other users, who are in support of Trump, were quick to disparage Tapper’s video and poked fun at Joe Biden, who is not the sitting president, and is no longer in office in the White House. They used the opportunity to seemingly take a cue from Trump’s own playbook and deflect the attention back on Democrats who they believe should be seen in a negative light instead of Trump.
But, whether you support Trump or not, he was on social media at a time when his energy could have been spent working for the American people. Having a social media-loving president is one thing. Having a politician who is petty and flies to their own social media platform to throw digital fits is totally different.
