fromThe New Yorker
1 day agoDonald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Posting as Politics
On June 24, at 6:50 A.M., Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that might otherwise have been reserved for a diplomatic cable or at least a highly secure phone line: "ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS . . . IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION." He signed the post, continuing in all caps, "DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."
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