Donald Trump spent his Saturday doing what he does best — rage-posting on Truth Social. The president let loose in an all-day, all-caps tirade targeting Obamacare, the filibuster, and what he called “FAT CAT insurance companies.”
It started early, with Trump railing against Democrats and demanding the Senate kill the filibuster. “The Democrats are winning in that they are destroying our great, miracle economy, which is exactly what they set out to do. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!” he wrote.
Minutes later, he went after Obamacare with a new “plan” that, according to health policy experts, could spell disaster for millions. Trump claimed he wants to redirect “hundreds of billions of dollars” from government health subsidies directly to Americans, supposedly allowing them to buy their own insurance.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE,” Trump posted. “In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!”
The proposal drew instant backlash. Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health, didn’t mince words: “The average cost of giving birth without insurance is $18,865. The average cancer patient will spend at least $150k. Trump’s approach would bankrupt and kill even more Americans when they can’t afford care. Our taxes should be funding universal healthcare with Medicare for All.”
She added bluntly that Trump’s plan “is going to kill a whole lot of people.”
But Trump didn’t care. Instead of backing off, he doubled down — and in full caps lock fury.
“NO MORE MONEY, HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO THE DEMOCRAT SUPPORTED INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR REALLY BAD OBAMACARE,” he blasted. “THE MONEY MUST NOW GO DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, TAKING THE ‘FAT CAT’ INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE.”
He went on: “THE PEOPLE CAN BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER POLICY, FOR MUCH LESS MONEY, SAVING, FOR THEMSELVES, AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE!!! PRESIDENT DJT.”
By the afternoon, Trump had shifted back to his other obsession — nuking the filibuster. “The Democrats are cracking like dogs on the Shutdown because they are deathly afraid that I am making progress with the Republicans on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER!” he wrote. “Whether we make a Deal or not, THE REPUBLICANS MUST ‘BLOW UP’ THE FILIBUSTER, AND APPROVE HUNDREDS OF LONG SOUGHT, BUT NEVER GOTTEN, POLICY WINS LIKE, AS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE, VOTER ID (IDENTIFICATION). Only a LOSER would not agree to doing this!”
Then, as if looping through his own feed, he repeated his earlier post nearly word-for-word — the same attacks on Obamacare, the same “HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS” rhetoric, the same all-caps ending signed “PRESIDENT DJT.”
And as the night dragged on, Trump was still at it. One final post closed out the day: “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!”
By the end of the night, it was clear — Trump wasn’t offering policy so much as a primal scream. What started as a health care proposal ended as a full-blown digital meltdown, with the president shouting into the void about Obamacare, the filibuster, and his endless list of imagined enemies.
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