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Being Donald Trump might be punishment enough. (Well, not really, but it's still bad.)

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May 23, 2022
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I’ve never seen The Last Emperor, one of these prestige Best Picture Oscar winners that no one really remembers, but the tag line from its poster always stuck with me:

It’s what I thought about when I read about the former President TRUTHing furiously this past weekend. Does this look like the work of a man who’s happy with his lot in life?

Former President Donald Trump is not having a good weekend, if the postings on his TRUTH Social account are any indication of his mood. In multiple posts, some directly from his account and some shared (or “ReTruthed” — TRUTH Social’s term for retweeting) from others, Trump conveyed his vexation with a wide range of targets including Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, and his former endorsee Alabama Senate candidate Mo Brooks.

Oh, and Trump also shared what seemed to be a call for civil war.

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The former president seemed to be making up for lost time this weekend, dropping rants on a variety of topics and echoing the daily Festivus-style airing of gri…

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