New Year’s Day, under normal circumstances, is meant to be a celebration of the year to follow, ushered in with spectacular fireworks displays and accompanied by messages of solidarity and goodwill. But festive spirits on this occasion have been dampened somewhat by a series of hard-hitting social media posts from President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful man, who has seen in the New Year not with unqualified love and positive thoughts but rather with unbridled hate and a somewhat negative outlook. He thus spent a part of New Year’s Eve online, posting on his Truth Social platform from Mar-a-Lago as he attacked various real or supposed enemies. Trump’s posts have only added to the growing and already massive body of online discourse in an increasingly polarised world where mutual hatred is feeding into increasingly acrimonious accusations between political opponents.
Donald Trump has many well-known dislikes. It is worth revisiting some of these, as and when they appeared on Truth Social. Top of the list came the Democrats. “California and Colorado are two of the TOP OUTBOUND STATES IN 2025 (United Van Lines!) – In other words, PEOPLE LEAVING!!! That’s what bad governors do to even places blessed with beautiful surrounds and climate.” (8: 58 AM ET on 31 December 2025). The “two Crooked States” of California and Minnesota are led by two “Crooked Governors”- both Democrats (10: 15 AM). This was followed by: “Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia.” Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, an “ungrateful user who only complains and never contributes” came in for special attention (10:55 AM).
Colorado’s “Scumbag” Democratic Governor Jared Polis and “disgusting” Republican (“RINO!”) Mesa County DA Dan Rubinstein were attacked for their role in the incarceration of 70-year-old Tina Peters, a former Mesa County elections clerk who was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison for electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election. (12:27 PM). Despite Trump’s presidential pardon on 5 December, Peters remains in prison as she was convicted by the state of Colorado and not by the federal government. The fate of Tina Peters is obviously playing on Trump’s mind, as he had started out with a post about her at 9: 20 AM, only for it be subsequently deleted, in which he had wished Polis and Rubinstein “only the worst. May they rot in Hell.”
The President then quoted from Douglas Murray’s recent contribution to the New York Post: “Trump cleaned up crime in DC-and taught everyone a lesson in public safety.” (1: 32 PM). Returning to Minnesota, the Somali-run “day care scandal” was declared to be “A total FRAUD!” (1:44 PM), having sparked “concern over election policy that allows a voter to ‘vouch’ for others.” (1:43 PM).
Tariffs have been credited with setting a “World Record on investments being made into a Country”, to the tune of “Trillions of Dollars more than number two, China” and are the reason why “factories and businesses are being built all over our Country.” (3:04 PM).
On a more positive note, although not necessarily at the right time in the process of readjusting healthcare funding, Trump declared: “Republicans: No more money to Fat Cat Insurance Companies. The money must go directly to the people to buy their own Healthcare” (3: 28 PM). It must be noted that federal healthcare subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are about to expire, thereby multiplying healthcare bills for many citizens.
Then it was back to the Democrats, “a bunch of cheaters and thieves that never want to do what’s good for America. As an example, they refuse to even consider Voter Identification.” (3:36 PM). Democrat-led Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland (Oregon) were next in the firing line, just as the “great Patriots” of the National Guard are being removed from those cities, albeit with the strong likelihood of having to “come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again.” (3:55 PM).
George Clooney, an actor in “very few, and totally mediocre movies” and his wife Amal- “two of the worst political prognosticators of all time”- were criticised for becoming citizens of France, a country “in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration.” In this particular anti-Democrat tirade, Trump also took pot shots at Sleepy Joe Biden, Jamala (K!) (sic), Tim Waltz (sic), and Gavin “Newscum”, who “is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat.” (4:54 PM)
Then, in keeping with his disdain for renewable energy sources, Trump noted that “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!” (5:44 PM). He also contested the results of recent public opinion polls, which “are rigged even more than the writers”, especially since the US “is ‘hotter’ than ever before”, with a “STRONG BORDER, No Inflation, a powerful Military, and great Economy” (9:58 PM).
Donald Trump’s unfiltered, flitting and fleeting comments, in no particular order and straight from his open-book mind, targeted Democrats, illegal immigrants, the causes of crime, and the “stolen” 2020 Presidential election, among others. He directly addressed, and will be well received by, his many followers, to whom his words must seem like those of a great leader. He could have chosen, however, on the special occasion of New Year’s Eve, to adopt a slightly more conciliatory tone of voice as leader of the free world and reached out to a much wider audience, having let off enough steam during Christmas Eve 2025. The newest posts that have started to emerge from Truth Social in 2026 make it unlikely that anything much will change during the second year of Trump 2.0.
Ashis Banerjee