MONDAY: Sitting president confronts crazed lunatic!

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2026

The problem we all face: Yes, it's an actual post.  

Even worse, it's an actual Truth Social post, from the sitting president. NBC's Channel 4 in Washington, D.C. provides the basic background:

East Potomac golf course closure and overhaul will start ‘immediately,' Trump says

President Donald Trump on Monday said his plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation's capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite an ongoing court challenge to his long-sought renovation will begin "IMMEDIATELY!"

Trump posted on social media on Sunday about his intent to shutter the East Potomac Golf Course, not far from the White House, starting Nov. 15 to make it “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World.”

A judge last week, however, ordered a halt to his redevelopment plans until at least Oct. 26 after scolding the government for starting a large-scale tree removal at the course over a holiday weekend while providing little notice to the court or the plaintiffs trying to stop the makeover.

Trump did not acknowledge the legal fight in his initial post, but early Monday morning he took to Truth Social again, calling the judge "a crazed lunatic."   

And so on from there.

This may seem like a hill of beans compared to the president's apparent tilt in the direction of trying to let Vladimir Putin achieve his conquest of Ukraine. The president's recent behaviors in that arena are being condemned by observers from all sides of all aisles.   

Compared to that onrushing disaster, this act of large-scale tree removal will likely seem less important. But here's the sitting president's complete Truth Social post:  

Truth Details

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The United States Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course. They have an absolute right to do so. It’s as simple as that! The judge on the case is a crazed lunatic whose courthouse tapes will reveal, may be insane? The tapes have been blocked from usage by the judge. The random golfer bringing the ridiculous lawsuit has ZERO STANDING! The experts at “Interior” are allowed to do this First Class renovation “as of right.” [sic] They do not need an approval. Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY! The finished product will be World Class, and bring income and great prestige back to D.C. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT   

Oct 19, 2026, 6:08 AM   

Were sorry, but no! Judge Ana C. Reyes shows no sign of being "a crazed lunatic whose courthouse...may be insane." 

Under an alternate reading of the garbled post, Judge Reyes also shows no sign of being insane herself.   

No, Virginia and the entire D.C. region: the judge doesn't seem to be crazed in the slightest. But the president who issued that post will be free to behave any way he pleases on the international stage for two more years and two more months after November 3. 

In short, it's a dangerous time here in our struggling nation.