President Donald Trump appears to be in full-blown midterm meltdown, unleashing a relentless torrent of debunked election conspiracy theories on his Truth Social platform while pressuring Senate Republicans to pass draconian new voting restrictions.
The president’s latest posting spree came after a flurry of activity Tuesday, including a demand that Georgia “take over” elections in Fulton County. He briefly logged off, only to return a few hours later with more false claims about the 2020 election.
“In the 2020 election, states using Dominion voting machines allegedly switched 435,000 votes from Trump to Biden and deleted 2.7 MILLION Trump votes, including 1 MILLION in Pennsylvania,” one post read, despite those claims having been repeatedly debunked. Another included a video of Sen. Chuck Schumer from 1996 and a caption urging, “PASS THE SAVE ACT!!!”
In another post he wrote: “We cannot let the Democrats get away with NO VOTER I.D. any longer. These are horrible, disingenuous CHEATERS. They have all sorts of reasons why it shouldn’t be passed, and then boldly laugh in the backrooms after their ridiculous presentations. If it weren’t such a serious matter, it would be considered a TOTAL JOKE! No Voter I.D. is even crazier, and more ridiculous, than Men playing in Women’s Sports, Open Borders, or Transgender for Everyone. Republicans must put this at the top of every speech — It is a CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND!”
The SAVE America Act, passed last week by House Republicans, is an updated version of a bill that stalled in the Senate last year. It would impose sweeping new voter restrictions: in-person registration, proof of citizenship via passport or physical birth certificate, and additional documentation for women who changed their names after marriage.
The law would go into effect immediately, yet about 21 million Americans don’t have easy access to the required documents, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Voting by mail would mostly be banned, and photo ID would be required to cast a ballot, though the bill’s ID rules exclude many student and tribal IDs, making the requirements stricter than in most states.
Trump’s plan also calls for states to verify voter rolls using a Department of Homeland Security citizenship tool. While many states already do so — returning just 0.04 percent noncitizen results last year — some states have refused to provide their voter files, citing misuse concerns highlighted when Elon Musk’s DOGE team allegedly shared private data with an election-denier group.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said this week that 50 Republicans back the legislation — enough to bring it to the floor for debate but not enough to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold. During his posting spree, Trump urged Thune to end the filibuster and claimed he would soon “unveil evidence that foreign powers meddled in the 2020 election” to force passage.
“Crooked Elections cannot be allowed in the U.S.A.,” Trump wrote, cryptically amplifying his conspiracy-laden messaging. Despite his demands, Thune told Fox News he doesn’t have the votes to eliminate the filibuster but plans to open debate, forcing Democrats to explain their opposition so Republicans can campaign on the issue in the midterms.
Critics say the burdens imposed by the SAVE Act far outweigh the problem it claims to solve. For instance, a Utah review of 2 million voter registrations found just one confirmed noncitizen and zero cases of noncitizen voting.
Meanwhile, Trump’s posts reveal a pattern: panicked, obsessive, and deranged in their insistence that vast conspiracies are at work. His social-media rampage underscores a president fixated less on practical politics than on a sprawling, fantasy-driven battle to bend elections to his will.
