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A holiday message became a grievance dump, and the self-own wrote itself.
Trump spent Christmas Day using Truth Social as a stress vent, turning a holiday greeting into a stream of attacks on Jack Smith, Joe Biden, and his usual enemies. The result was not statesmanship, just a loud reminder that his political brand still runs on grievance, outrage, and a total inability to take a day off from the circus.
For a man selling himself as the strong, disciplined alternative, Christmas Day looked a lot like the opposite: raw nerves, old lies, and a feed full of rage. The holiday could have been a reset. Instead, Trump made it another entry in the same long file marked self-inflicted damage.
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Trump used Christmas Day to blast Joe Biden, special counsel Jack Smith, and a grab bag of other targets in an all-caps Truth Social barrage that ended with a wish that his enemies “rot in hell.” It was the kind of holiday message that manages to be both nasty and strategically dumb: the sort of post that pleases the base, feeds the opposition, and confirms every critique about his politics being powered by grievance instead of governance.