Donald Trump has gone on a late night Truth Social binge, posting nearly 100 times in the middle of the night.
The president uses the social media platform to announce administration updates and to take aim at his critics, but a flurry of reposts were made by Trump in the early hours of January 5. Many of the posts appeared to be reposts of his own Truth Social comments, which were screen recordings or screenshots of political commentary.
Posts made by the president touched on immigration in the US, Venezuela, and one denounced the "thieving government". The post reads, "Tell me again, why do we pay tax money to a broken, lying, thieving government?"
It marks one of 89 posts made by the president in the span of an hour. One post appeared to praise tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, with the video seemingly confirming the Tesla head will back the Republican Party in the midterms later this year.
The post reads, "Elon Musk is reportedly going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control in the November midterms." Trump also made reposts on voter ID laws and repeated a debunked claim on Ilhan Omar.
Trump reposted a comment from Mila Joy, which reads, "Ilhan Omar - money laundering, racketeering, bribery, kickbacks, conspiracy, campaign finance abuse, defrauding investors and employees... (Not to mention immigration fraud for marrying her brother.) Lock her up then boot her out."
Rumors that Omar's ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is secretly her brother, and married her to illegally gain residency in the United States, have circulated since 2016 during her run for Minnesota state legislature, when a right-wing website briefly posted, then deleted, what was purported to be an Instagram screenshot that showed Elmi with Omar's children by a previous marriage, and calling them "nieces."
There is no evidence for the claim other than this now-deleted, unsubstantiated screenshot. Trump also shared a TikTok clip which saw Venezuelans thank Trump for the capture of president Nicolás Maduro.
The president has since called Venezuela a "dead" country in need of investment. "Venezuela, right now, is a dead country," Trump said. "We have to bring it back. We're going to have to have big investments from the oil companies to rebuild the infrastructure."
"The oil companies are ready to go," Trump continued. "They're going to go in. They're going to build the infrastructure. We built it to start off with many years ago. They took it away. You can't do that."