Donald Trump on Thursday fired off a message that started out with “Happy Fourth of July,” but all references to the holiday ended there.
Instead, the former president launched a lengthy attack on President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump in the classified documents case in Florida and Jan. 6 case in Washington.
Trump dismissed Biden as “highly incapable” and mocked the shifting explanations for his poor performance at last week’s debate. He referred to the vice president as “Laffin’ Kamala Harris” and taunted her for dropping out of the 2020 presidential race before the voting began. And he ripped Smith as “deranged.”
Happy Fourth of July to all, including to our highly incapable “President,” who uses Prosecutors to go after his Political Opponent, who choked like a dog during the Debate but tried to pretend it was “International Travel” (only 12 days rest!) and, when that gig was up, he…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) July 4, 2024
Trump is prone to using holidays as excuses to attack his opponents, including an all-caps Father’s Day message last month accusing “radical left degenerates” of creating “third world status” in the country. He also called the judges in his legal cases “human scum” in his Memorial Day message, and for Christmas he told his critics to “ROT IN HELL.”
His latest message didn’t go over very well among his critics:
Disgraceful for an X president on the 4th July.
I have no words 😢— Sandy (@sandiechill) July 4, 2024
This doubles as one of the best cases *for* Kamala: Trump and allies will galvanize support for her by saying endlessly offensive things re: race and gender
Would be quickest way to unify Dems and have shot at undecideds uneasy w Trump https://t.co/jY7clnC3cs
— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) July 4, 2024
Terrible rambling from a cognitively declining former president
— Franklin (@franklinisbored) July 4, 2024