Trump, 80, Unravels in 1 A.M. Posting Frenzy

Evelyn Hockstein President Donald Trump spent the early hours of Monday throwing a tantrum instead of sleeping.

The 80-year-old launched into a familiar late-night Truth Social tirade at around 10 p.m., with porous claims about gas prices under his predecessor.

“Gas prices were much higher under Biden than under “TRUMP.” So were almost all other prices,” he said, putting his name in quotation marks for some reason.

This claim is technically grounded in some of the numbers, but it includes some classically Trumpy spin.

For one, prices have not actually fallen under Trump.

Consumer prices were still 3.4 percent higher in August than a year earlier, while gasoline prices have surged again in 2026.

The comparison also conveniently starts with the inflation-heavy years of the Biden presidency triggered by massive COVID-19 relief spending, allowing Trump to portray the slower pace of price increases under his watch as a broad decline in prices.

Americans are still paying more for many of the same goods and services, largely due to Trump’s war against Iran.

A few hours after this dodgy claim, Trump fired off a blitz of five posts in just nine minutes.

The first was a link to a news article about former CIA Director John Brennan.

The president has long claimed he is the victim of a “grand conspiracy” involving Democrats and “deep-state” operatives, despite a lack of evidence.

As part of its wide-ranging probe, the DOJ has subpoenaed intelligence officials who concluded in January 2017 that Russia sought to influence the election in Trump’s favor and opened a criminal investigation into Brennan.

The link Trump shared said that “prosecutors have zeroed in on John Brennan’s role in Trump-Russia collusion narrative in conspiracy case.” That was posted just before 1 a.m.

Moments later, Trump moved on to the Kennedy Center, sharing a link to a news article that claimed: “Biden-era inspection reports expose Kennedy Center disrepair, safety hazards that Trump seeks to fix.” He took a 10-minute break and returned with a post about how he has sensationally banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.