A disturbing trend emerged in President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social tirade.

Trump posted more than 55 times in just three hours on Monday night, unloading a ton of conspiracy theory content targeting former President Barack Obama, peppered with videos of Black people causing mayhem.

Trump’s onslaught began by claiming that Obama had attempted a coup and boosting a call to “arrest Obama the traitor.” He then posted months-old coverage of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claims that the Obama administration had pushed the “lie” that Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election, which was something Putin has openly admitted.

As Trump continued to post, his allegations got increasingly outlandish. The president shared posts claiming that Obama made $120 million from Obamacare and accusing Obama of “the most heinous crimes committed in American history,” including wiretapping Trump Tower. Other posts mentioned figures such as Senator Mark Kelly, Clinton, and Jack Smith, but Obama’s name appeared over and over again.

After about half an hour of nonstop posting, Trump interrupted his screed against his political enemies to share a video that appeared to show young Black people stealing from a convenience store. “This is why the convenience store chain ‘Wawa’ is closing stores one after another,” the post read.

Then Trump posted another video that purported to show a Black woman working for DoorDash picking up an order, only to be discovered eating the food in her car. “Always scheming,” the post read.

The president also shared a video of a Black man purposefully knocking over a waiter’s tray in a restaurant. “I wouldn’t call him a man,” the post read. “A real man would never disrespect another person like this. I’ll call him what he is, a POS!”

Trump resumed his political posting, sharing a video in which right-wing lawyer Mike Davis called Obama a “demonic force.”

This wouldn’t be the first time Trump’s social media spiraling has taken on racist overtones as he targets Obama. In February, the president shared a video on Truth Social that ended with a short clip of the Obamas’ laughing heads superimposed on the bodies of apes.

Trump continued his deranged posting into the night, and then resumed it when the sun came up. He posted Tuesday morning about a fictional “Federal Victory Note” currency that had his face on it, an AI-generated meme about “Hakeem ‘Low IQ’ Jeffries,” and another AI image of Obama, Joe Biden, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swimming in a sewage-filled Reflecting Pool.

The feud between President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker made headlines again over the weekend as the Commander-in-Chief lobbed an AI-generated attack on Truth Social.

Here's what happened.

What did Trump post on Truth Social?

In a Saturday Truth Social post, Trump shared an AI-generated photo of Illinois' Democratic governor eating from a table of food with the caption "JB is too busy to keep Chicago safe!"

The image shows Pritzker at a table with a double cheeseburger in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other. On the table in front of him is a buffet of other foods, including a "jumbo-sized" bucket of fried chicken, a large bowl of nachos, spaghetti and meatballs, a milkshake and a chili dog.

Did Pritzker respond?

Pritzker had not publicly responded to Trump's attack as of Tuesday morning.

Instead, the Illinois governor criticized the president's remodeling of the White House ballroom in an X post, demanding "the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom be immediately directed to tariff relief for working families and small businesses."

In a post Monday afternoon, Pritzker also condemned comments made by Trump about a possible "Election Integrity Group" during November midterm elections.

"Intimidation, full stop," the governor wrote.

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What's the story between Trump and Pritzker's feud?

Trump has long been critical of Democratic cities and their leaders, including Pritzker.

The president has repeatedly painted Chicago as a "disaster" and a "killing field," saying on multiple occasions the city is "worse than Afghanistan."

The subject of immigration has also put the two figures at odds, with Pritzker voicing explicit disapproval of the president's deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the Chicago area.

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As recently as last month, Pritzker called for Trump's removal from office, condemning the president's threat to wipe out "a whole civilization" in Iran.

This is also not the first time the president has mocked the Illinois governor's weight. Last November, Trump called Pritzker a "big, fat slob" during the White House turkey pardoning ceremony.

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Senate Republicans released a new proposal on May 4 that, if passed, would provide $1 billion in new funding for security upgrades to the East Wing of the White House, where President Trump’s new ballroom is being built.

The proposal doesn’t specifically mention the ballroom but instead calls for giving the funds to the Secret Service to support the East Wing Modernization Project, which includes “security adjustments and upgrades” to above- and below-ground security features. The $1 billion is part of a $72 billion immigration bill that Republicans are hoping to pass using a special legislative process that would allow them to get around the Senate filibuster.

The Trump administration applauded the proposal soon after, arguing that it would provide much-needed support for “long overdue” enhancements to the White House. “Congress has rightly recognized the need for these funds,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement.

From the beginning, Trump has said that all of the money to build the 90,000-square-foot event space would come from “Patriot Donors and Contributors.” So, when the $1 billion funding proposal was announced, critics of Trump’s plan to build the ballroom seized on the news as an opportunity to accuse Trump of breaking his pledge that “not one dollar of Taxpayer money” would be spent on the project.

Republicans pushed back, asserting that the $1 billion would only go toward security upgrades and that the ballroom itself would still be built exclusively by private donations. A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate committee that wrote the bill, told Politico that the proposal “does not fund ballroom construction” and instead provides funds to “ensure all presidents, their families and their staffs are adequately protected.”

A group of Republican lawmakers proposed a bill last month that would have provided $400 million for the ballroom itself, which they argued is necessary to ensure the president’s safety in the wake of the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25. That bill, which appears to have slim odds of passing, is separate from the GOP’s latest, security-focused proposal.

The future of the security-focused funding is also in doubt, as some key Republicans have questioned whether it would be an appropriate use of taxpayer money.

“Obviously, there have been three or four attempts on the president’s life, and that’s extremely serious, and we’re in a heightened era of political violence, but the ballroom itself should be paid for by private donations, as the president had indicated,” Maine Sen. Susan Collins told reporters on Monday.

Some other GOP members have expressed concerns about the political optics of approving funding for the ballroom at a time when so many Americans are struggling with soaring prices.

“It’s a bad look. It’s bad timing. It’s bad all around,” an anonymous House Republican told Politico.

Shifting price tags

Even after putting the $1 billion that senators proposed aside, the price tag for Trump’s ballroom has risen dramatically since it was first announced. When the White House released the first official plans for it last July, the full cost of the project was quoted at $200 million.

“President Trump, and other patriot donors, have generously committed to donating the funds necessary to build this approximately $200 million dollar structure,” the White House wrote in a statement at the time. “The United States Secret Service will provide the necessary security enhancements and modifications.”

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In October, Trump told reporters that the cost of building the ballroom was “about $300 million,” with all of the funds still coming from private donors. A few days later, he said that “over $350 million” had been raised for the ballroom. Then in December, Trump described the project as a “$400 million ballroom.” The quoted price remains at $400 million today.

Trump addressed the increasing costs of the ballroom in a Truth Social post on May 6.

“The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal, which would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations,” he wrote.

He also accused the media of trying to “make it look like there was a cost overrun” and said that the project is “coming in ahead of schedule, and under budget!”

In October, the White House released a list of about three dozen companies and individuals who had provided donations to fund the ballroom’s construction, including major tech companies, cryptocurrency companies and defense contractors. According to the New York Times, there were a number of other donors who were not included on the list because they preferred to keep their donations a secret.

What we know about planned security upgrades

The East Wing of the White House, which the Trump administration demolished in October to make room for the ballroom, sat on top of a secure underground bunker called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which was first built during World War II.

It’s unclear how much, if any, of that bunker still exists. But the White House has announced plans to construct a new, much larger security complex underneath the ballroom.

“The military’s building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction and we’re doing very well,” Trump said on March 29. “The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under.”

Details about the bunker have mostly remained secret, but Trump has discussed some of the elements that will supposedly be included.

“We have bio defense all over,” he said on March 31. “We have secure telecommunications and communications all over. We have bomb shelters that we’re building. We have a hospital and very major medical facilities that we’re building. We have all of these things.”

The Senate Republicans’ spending proposal would authorize the $1 billion to be spent on “above-ground and below-ground security features.”

The White House on Tuesday shared with the media a breakdown of how the money would be spent. About $220 million would go toward “hardening” the new East Wing renovations, including “bulletproof glass, drone detection technologies, chemical and other threat filtration and detection systems.”

The remaining $780 million would be used for Secret Service training, the construction of a new visitor screening facility and a variety of other security enhancements.

Security funding could be a boon for the ballroom project overall

Beyond providing funds for security features, the Republican proposal — if passed — might also help clear some of the legal hurdles that have hindered construction on the ballroom. In March, a federal judge ruled that the non-security elements of the ballroom cannot be built unless Congress expressly authorizes its construction. A series of legal decisions have allowed work on the ballroom to continue temporarily, but the lack of formal congressional approval still lingers as a potential threat to the project.

If Republicans’ security funding becomes law, that could give the Trump administration’s lawyers stronger footing to argue in court that the legislature has signed off on its complete plan to renovate the East Wing of the White House, the ballroom included.

Republicans can pass the security funding on their own using a special process called reconciliation, but the GOP’s narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress mean that even a handful of dissenters within their party could be enough to sink the proposal.

Donald Trump — no stranger to verbally attacking and insulting female reporters in recent months — lashed out at Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich on Sunday after she dared to interview a Democratic lawmaker who criticized him on air.

During an appearance on “The Sunday Briefing,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) predicted Democrats will win back the House in November’s midterm elections because “gas prices are up, food prices are up, people don’t like the fact that we’re in a war in Iran, they don’t like the fact that the Trump administration hasn’t released the Epstein files or held the Epstein class accountable.”

Trump responded with a 180-plus-word Truth Social rant attacking both Khanna and Heinrich.

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He began:

“You could listen to FoxNews all day long, absolutely devour it, but then, when you hear SLEAZEBAGS, like Congressman Ro Khanna, ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ LIE, LIE, LIE, AND LIE AGAIN, without any pushback, or competent rebuttal from an anchor, in this case, Jacqui Heinrich, the entire Common Sense dialogue that has been going on all day at Fox is completely obliterated!”

“Why would Fox put SCUM like this on, or others, such as Low Rated Bill Maher, who gains ‘credibility’ by constant referral to him as though he were a Liberal source of “Wisdom,” or very Low IQ Hakeem Jeffries, who considers the Supreme Court ‘illegitimate,’ and probably hates our Country,” Trump continued.

“No matter how ‘Fair and Balanced’ the day’s News at Fox may be, the end result is destroyed by professional Liars, Conmen, and Liberal, Crooked Politicians,” Trump said.

Then he concluded: “This is why MAGA Republicans, who are actually close to 100% of the Party, hate Fox, despite the wonderful contributions made by so many of their great anchors and commentators. Hard to win Elections like this!”

In an earlier post, Trump said Khanna “should not be allowed on FoxNews unless you have an ‘anchor’ who is capable of disputing his lie, one after another, and closing down his FAKE (********!) narrative.”

Khanna responded on X, writing that he goes on Fox to talk about things like what he described as Trump’s “economic agenda to build steel, ship * battery plants in hollowed out communities.”

“This is why I talk to everyone, including Trump voters, without hurling insults,” he added. “This is how Democrats will win & unite the country.”

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