Trump launches barrage of Truth Social attacks on the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal and wind farms
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump fired off a barrage of Truth Social posts targeting an array of domestic and foreign entities long familiar with his relentless criticism.
In the span of roughly 90 minutes, he singled out the Supreme Court, The Wall Street Journal, the renewable energy industry and the Iranian regime.
The president’s online remarks capped off his day at the White House, during which he attended policy meetings, hosted college athletes in the State Dining Room and participated in a marathon Bible-reading event.
Here is a breakdown of what the 79-year-old Republican president said on Tuesday evening.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump announced that a pair of Pennsylvania coal plants that had been slated to close in 2028 will be kept open.
Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, and the Commerce Department agreed to maintain operations at the plants located in Armstrong and Indiana Counties, he said.
“Radical Left Lunatics wanted to get rid of these wonderful Plants in favor of WIND FARMS, which kill the birds, and are both costly and ineffective,” the president wrote. “We will never allow that to happen!”
Trump has long campaigned against wind energy, repeatedly branding wind farms as noisy, unsightly, inefficient and harmful enough to drive “the whales crazy.” Scientists have disputed his claims.
Less than an hour later, the president tore into The Wall Street Journal, a New York-based news outlet owned by the media company of billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
The paper has “LOST ITS WAY,” the president wrote.
“An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, ‘The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.’ Really? For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters,” he continued.
“I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way,” he said, describing the outlet as “just another failing political ‘RAG!’”
Kaufman responded by reposting an image of Trump’s Truth Social post on X, writing: “My wife: . . . you’re still going to do the dishes tonight, right?”
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The WSJ and the journalists and publishers who reported on an alleged “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, which the president claims does not exist.
