Concerns over President Donald Trump’s mental fitness have continued to grow after the president went on yet another late-night social media spree. On Monday’s “Deadline: White House,” Nicolle Wallace said Trump “has been doubling and tripling down on burnishing his own image in increasingly weird ways” as he struggles with sinking poll numbers amid his war with Iran.
Wallace called Trump’s string of Truth Social posts on Friday evening “truly bizarre” and “weird, even for him.” The president’s posts included an artificial intelligence image of him, along with several members of his Cabinet, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, in bathing suits, lounging in the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool.
“Something we don’t recommend to any of our viewers,” the MS NOW host said.
The president also posted another altered image of himself, this time holding Uno cards with the caption: “I have all the cards.”
While the post was likely intended to tout his dealmaking prowess, as Wallace pointed out, the goal of the game is to get rid of cards, not collect them.
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“If you’ve ever played Uno with your kids,” she said, having all the cards means “you’re losing Uno.”
The posts come as Trump’s popularity has reached an all-time low. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, 62% of voters said they are unhappy with the job he is doing as president — the highest number recorded by that poll in both of Trump’s terms. His ratings among Republican-leaning independents have also reached a new low, with just 56% approving.
Wallace said Trump’s social media spree was the latest example of his “alienating self-aggrandizement,” adding that “anyone looking for a hint” as to why he was “spiraling” simply “needs to look no further” than his falling poll numbers.
You can watch Wallace’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.
Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”