By Ben Meiselas
Some mornings reveal everything you need to know about how a presidency is going. This Saturday was one of those mornings.
We’re continuing to follow a catastrophic unraveling in real time, broadcast by Donald Trump himself across social media as global crises deepened and his term continued its collapse
What unfolded today was an extraordinary display of delusion, distraction, and dangerous rhetoric, against a backdrop of deadly international conflict, economic instability, and growing mockery from his own allies. Let me break down all the updates from this hectic Saturday. Please remember to like this post. Share it. And Subscribe to this Substack.
As the fragile Gaza ceasefire appears to have officially collapsed (Hamas this morning told U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff and other mediators that the ceasefire is “over” and they intend to resume fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip) and more Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of Palestinians, Trump was online posting fantasies about having “the highest poll numbers of my political career.” In reality, as even Fox’s own polling shows, he is at historic lows, the lowest of any modern president.
A summary from CNN described this ten-day stretch as “probably the worst” of his second term, with Trump underwater in every major survey:
Marquette: –14
Fox: –17
Marist: –17
Reuters/Ipsos: –22
AP/NORC: –26
“When your best poll has you still 14 points underwater, you know it’s truly bad,” the analyst explained.
Yet there Trump was, claiming victory while the world burned, pretending a broken diplomatic stunt was a “historic peace deal” even as Hamas and Israel openly acknowledged otherwise.
At the same time, Bitcoin and the broader crypto markets were in freefall, dropping nearly 25% over six months, more at certain points this week, despite Trump branding himself “the bitcoin and crypto president.” Even his son Eric took to the airwaves to boast about crypto “replacing traditional finance,” hours before the market cratered further.
Remember early on when we said this would be the “rug pull” presidency? Well, the rug pull has arrived.
Americans heading into Thanksgiving are paying surging prices, with Fox News even advising viewers to “just stick to turkey, ” or maybe even tofurkey, and avoid other proteins because the costs are too high.
So what does Trump do?
He emails supporters what, in my opinion, is a scam.
Not a warning. Not support. Not a plan.
A scam.
A photo of himself holding cash with the subject line “tariff rebate check,” promising people money he has no authority to give. The moment you click, the only thing he asks for is your money. “Please,” the email reads, “I need you to be generous.”
Ah yes, MAGA. Give Donald more of your money now! He will be sending you lots of money sometime in the future, but right now, he needs you! It’s honestly sad that so many fall victim to this con artist.
This, while families across the country are struggling.
Trump’s rage continued against his once-fiercest loyalists. After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she would resign in January 2026, Trump lashed out, again calling her “Marjorie Traitor Brown.” It didn’t matter that Greene built her entire identity around defending him. In Trump’s world, loyalty is temporary and betrayal is inevitable. He is melting down in full view of a country that has grown increasingly exhausted with the chaos.
Last night, Trump escalated his attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community, bragging he would revoke Temporary Protected Status from “the Somalis in Minnesota” because “everybody knows they commit fraud.” It was an openly racist, wildly inaccurate broadside against roughly 700 people, TPS holders whose status already expires next year.
The cruelty is the point. And it’s the one thing that plays with his base these days. The more he needs to distract, whether from Epstein or his other failures, the more cruelty you can expect as Trump desperately tries to change the subject and throw his base red meat.
Meanwhile, new reporting revealed that Trump administration officials pushed through military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific that U.S. military lawyers explicitly warned were illegal. One former official told The Washington Post, “We don’t even know if what we’re doing is legal.”
It’s not.
These are extrajudicial killings.
War crimes.
The legacy media can mince words all they want. We won’t.
And senior DOJ officials, including Pam Bondi, overrode legal objections to push them through anyway.
Let me be clear: military personnel have a legal obligation to refuse unlawful orders. That has been the law since Nuremberg. Anyone in that chain of command who authorized illegal killings will face accountability. It may not come today, but it will come.
Take all of this together, the Gaza crisis, the crypto crash, the racist tirades, the orchestrated fraud, the imploding polls, the internal feuds, the state media contortion, and a picture emerges of a presidency unraveling under its own weight.
Even Trump’s own propaganda outlets can’t keep up. The New York Post, which only days ago teased a “showdown” between Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, ran a cover showing Trump fawning over him instead. Trump, desperate for validation, treated Mamdani like a celebrity he’d long idolized.
Trump is completely out of his depth, surrounded by sycophants, fueled by propaganda, and incapable of facing reality, at the very moment the world needs steady, ethical leadership the most.
His distractions are falling flat. More and more Americans, including many is his own base, are waking up.
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