Turning the law on his enemies
Ordering his Attorney General to prosecute his political enemies
They're all guilty as hell. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!
Truth Social · September 20, 2025
The public post was addressed to "Pam" and named Comey, "Adam Shifty Schiff," and "Leticia." Five days later his Justice Department indicted James Comey, and prosecutors later had to defend this very post in court against a claim of vindictive prosecution.
Sources: PBS · TIME
Celebrating the indictment of the enemy he had ordered charged
JUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey… now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation.
Truth Social · September 25, 2025
Five days earlier he had publicly demanded his Attorney General prosecute Comey. When the indictment came, secured by his own former personal lawyer, whom he had installed as prosecutor, he cheered it and added, "I hope there are others." His Justice Department later had to argue in court that his posts had not driven the case.
Sources: The Hill (via AOL) · DOJ defends the posts (Fox News)
Demanding a private citizen be charged with racketeering for funding causes he opposes
George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America.
Truth Social · August 27, 2025
Soros, a 95-year-old Democratic donor, has never held office, and Trump offered no evidence. His Justice Department then circulated a memo directing prosecutors to prepare investigations of Soros's foundation, built on a report critics found riddled with errors. A Republican ethics lawyer who served under George W. Bush called this pattern "extremely dangerous for democracy."
Sources: NPR · Rolling Stone
Going after the free press
Threatening to strip broadcasters of their licenses over coverage he dislikes
They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans… Crooked "journalism" should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!
Truth Social · August 24, 2025
He called ABC and NBC "an arm of the Democrat Party" and "a threat to our Democracy." His own FCC chair, a Trump appointee, then opened license reviews of ABC stations. He repeated the threat in July 2026 after networks declined to carry a speech live.
Sources: The Hill · NPR
Demanding the FCC punish a network for a broadcast he disliked, while suing it for $20 billion
They should lose their license! Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)… will impose the maximum fines and punishment… CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this.
Truth Social · April 13, 2025
He was reacting to a 60 Minutes broadcast. He had already sued CBS for $20 billion over a routine edit of a Kamala Harris interview; his own FCC chair opened an investigation, and CBS's parent company later paid to settle while its merger awaited FCC approval. First Amendment experts called the lawsuit frivolous.
Sources: CNN · The Hill
Suing a newspaper for $10 billion over a story he did not like
We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS "article" in the useless "rag" that is, The Wall Street Journal.
Truth Social · July 18, 2025
The suit names the Journal, Rupert Murdoch, and two reporters over a report that he sent Jeffrey Epstein a lewd 2003 birthday note, which he denies. He had already pressured ABC and CBS into multimillion-dollar settlements. Press-freedom advocates see a deliberate pattern of using lawsuits to punish coverage he dislikes.
Sources: PBS (AP) · CNBC · NPR
Putting the government into private business
Announcing that the government now owns a piece of a private company
It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL… The United States paid nothing for these Shares.
Truth Social · August 2025
When critics called it socialism, he shot back: "I will make deals like that for our Country all day long… Why are 'stupid' people unhappy with that?" Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board ("a de facto nationalization") and National Review ("extortion") objected. The federal portfolio has since grown to about 30 companies.
Sources: Mediaite · The Hill
Celebrating the government's stock gains, with more takeovers coming
Congratulations to the People of the United States for making such a good investment!
Truth Social · 2026
He has been eager to tout the Intel stake's paper gains even as the government's portfolio expanded to roughly 30 companies, from steel and nuclear to rare earths and a fresh round of chipmakers pressed to hand over equity as a condition of federal funding.
Sources: The post (Truth Social) · The 30-company portfolio (Yahoo Finance)
Punishing anyone who breaks with him
Attacking the Republicans and allies who broke with him on war
Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, "IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!"
Truth Social · June 2025
He also called Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican, a "simple minded grandstander" who is "disrespectful to our great military," after Massie called the unauthorized Iran strikes unconstitutional. The war drew rare open revolt from his own base, including Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Sources: NBC News · ABC News
Driving a Republican senator out of the party for crossing him
Thom Tillis is a talker and complainer, NOT A DOER! He's even worse than Rand "Fauci" Paul!
Truth Social · June 28, 2025
After Tillis opposed his tax-and-Medicaid bill, Trump threatened to recruit a primary challenger; within a day Tillis announced his retirement and Trump posted "Great News!" Tillis is the same senator now blocking Trump's Attorney General nominee over the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, and even fellow Senate Republicans called the treatment "totally unnecessary."
Sources: The Hill · CBS News
Foreign policy on his own terms
Tying a 50% tariff on an entire country to the prosecution of his ally
The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro… is an international disgrace. This trial should not be taking place.
Truth Social · July 9, 2025
In the same letter he announced a 50% tariff on all Brazilian goods. The usual justification did not apply: the United States runs a trade surplus with Brazil, so this was about protecting a political ally, not trade.
Sources: NBC News · CNN
Floating the annexation of allies and neighbors
If Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%… and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World.
Truth Social · December 25, 2024
In the same run of posts he mocked Canada's prime minister as "Governor," said Greenland was "needed by the United States," and refused to rule out military force to take Greenland and the Panama Canal. Even the libertarian Cato Institute called the expansionist push "nonsense."
Sources: NBC News · Cato Institute
Turning the military on people
Announcing lethal strikes that killed people at sea, with no arrest or trial
Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists… The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.
Truth Social · September 2, 2025
It was the first of at least five strikes he announced this way, killing roughly 27 people on boats the administration said were carrying drugs, with little public evidence and no arrests or trials. In a later post he warned, "IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!" Legal scholars across the spectrum called the killings likely unlawful.
Sources: CNN · NPR · FactCheck.org
Threatening to send the military into an American city
I love the smell of deportations in the morning… Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR.
Truth Social · September 6, 2025
The post, styled after Apocalypse Now, followed his renaming of the Defense Department as the "Department of War" and his federalizing of D.C.'s police. He had already sent the National Guard into Los Angeles, which a federal judge ruled illegal. To a room of generals he called U.S. cities "training grounds" for the military against an "invasion from within."
Sources: CBS News · Forbes