With the midterm elections just days away, President Donald Trump apparently decided to give Americans another reminder that his social media feed operates on a different planet.
Late Sunday night, Trump posted a bizarre, unexplained side-by-side image on Truth Social showing half of his face next to half of Elvis Presley’s. No caption. No explanation. Just Trump and the King of Rock and Roll sharing what appeared to be a digitally stitched portrait.
Trump has also previously claimed that people see a resemblance between him and the King of Rock and Roll. At one point, he told an audience that “many people say he looks like Elvis,” referring to himself. Sunday’s side-by-side image appears to revisit that comparison, although Trump offered no explanation for the post.
But that wasn’t the only head-scratcher of the day.
During a rally in Dubuque, Iowa, Trump claimed he could have won the Vietnam War in just one week, while struggling to recall the name of Agent Orange, the notorious chemical herbicide used by the U.S. military during the conflict.
Discussing America’s past military engagements, Trump complained that the country had spent years fighting wars without actually winning them.
“Vietnam, 21 years, thousands and thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of people killed,” he said. “Afghanistan, years and years… We never fight to win.”
Then came the boast.
“I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know,” Trump declared.
He went on to describe how the military had repeatedly dropped a chemical substance over Vietnamese forests to destroy vegetation and deprive enemy forces of cover.
An audience member eventually supplied the name: Agent Orange.
“Agent Orange,” Trump repeated, before appearing to confuse the name of a Vietnamese city and complaining that the military had spent years spraying forests instead of targeting Ho Chi Minh City and other locations.
“I would have won that war in one week,” he insisted.
For context, Agent Orange was a highly toxic herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War as part of its defoliation campaign. Its use exposed millions of people to dioxin contamination and has been linked to serious long-term health consequences, including cancer and birth defects.
The Vietnam War lasted nearly two decades of direct U.S. involvement, cost the lives of tens of thousands of American service members and millions of Vietnamese people, and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Trump’s one-week victory claim offered no explanation for how he supposedly would have accomplished what years of military operations failed to achieve.
Trump’s Elvis obsession and bizarre timing
As for the Elvis image, Trump has never been shy about his admiration for the legendary singer.
During his first term, he awarded Presley the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. Earlier this year, Trump visited Graceland, Elvis’ iconic Memphis home, while in Tennessee to discuss federal law enforcement deployments.
“Elvis would be very happy about that,” Trump said at the time, referring to crime reductions, before adding, “I love Elvis.”
He also claimed he had been around when Elvis was in his “semi-prime.”
Still, the decision to post a digitally stitched image of his own face alongside the late singer’s, without a word of explanation, was certainly an unusual addition to the president’s social media feed.
Trump’s posts and remarks came just two days before the November 3 midterm elections, with Republicans facing the possibility of significant losses in Congress. Democrats are hoping to capitalize on voter frustration over the cost of living, the administration’s record and the ongoing war with Iran.
