Althouse: Trump is wowed by himself.

April 14, 2026

Trump is wowed by himself.

ADDED: At the link, which goes to a Trump post at Truth Social, there's video animating a series of photos of Trump, in chronological order, beginning with him as an angelic toddler. We get the sense of Trump through the years, but there is one glaring problem, and it's funny that he chose to share this video anyway. There is only one photo where he is shown with one of his wives, and that wife is Marla Maples.

79 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: I can't get video from Truth Social to embed. Their loss.; 4/14/26, 8:02 AM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: It's time for Trump to go away. It's time for J.D. to take over.; 4/14/26, 8:10 AM
Mary Beth said...: That video has been around for a while. I wonder why he's sharing it now.; 4/14/26, 8:13 AM
Peachy said...: what is with that stupid escalator?; 4/14/26, 8:14 AM
imTay said...: It's like having Peter Griffin from Family Guy as President, including cutaways, "Donnie as Jesus," "Donnie as the Pope," etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdGcOeo9lek&list=PLRVVh4-T6vqjxl4Aw3FFXhObMAioU2x--

Can't they hit him with a tranquilizer dart and 25th Amendment him right now?; 4/14/26, 8:15 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Trump was handsome dude back in his 20s. Maybe Trump at 80 is looking back and going "wow".; 4/14/26, 8:19 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Tucker's called Trump "a slave to Israel" and its too bad. Trump's got us into a mess with this stupid war, and now he's lashing out at all critics, not just his MAGA ones, but the Pope.

I dunno why but its stupidity on steroids.; 4/14/26, 8:21 AM
Peachy said...: Trump is an impressive person.
so?; 4/14/26, 8:27 AM
Peachy said...: Tucker - LOL. A sellout and a fraud.; 4/14/26, 8:28 AM
Peachy said...: The Catholic hierarchy in US lived large on billions from Dems... for their illegal entrant *wink wink* installation.; 4/14/26, 8:29 AM
rehajm said...: …prolly the first time he saw it…I get the ones where the stars of the classic movie meet up with their current selves, little halos if they’re dead. Are others impressed by the imagery? To me they’re as primitive as the dinosaur they showed Spielberg to get Jurassic Park made…; 4/14/26, 8:31 AM
imTay said...: "A sellout and a fraud."

I know, Tucker asks questions like why doesn't the bullet from Charlie Kirk match the purported gun, and why was the investigation shut down, even as it is clear that there were more people involved than the patsy they pinned it on.; 4/14/26, 8:34 AM
Sydney said...: The "wow" might mean the AI wizardry to see yourself going through your ages. He does have a heaping amount of self-regard to begin with, though.; 4/14/26, 8:35 AM
Once written, twice... said...: Who is surprised that Trump has ended up at this crazy place and has dragged the country down with him?

The answer is no one. You would have to be an idiot not to see he was and is an unhinged, raving lunatic.

It will forever be a stain on our country’s reputation that half of Americans supported this clown. To those who did, I say “Fuck You.”; 4/14/26, 8:36 AM
jim5301 said...: No shortage of beat-off material there. Wonder if her prefers the 4-year old me or the 18-year-old me?; 4/14/26, 8:38 AM
imTay said...: Actually, in that "slave to Israel" video, Tucker brings up a lot of interesting facts. But, he has been denounced by the clown in the Oval Office, and what more do you need? You certainly don't have to look at any of the evidence.; 4/14/26, 8:38 AM
Peachy said...: Tim in Vermont - The investigation is not shut down. Good grief.
If it comes out of Tucker's mouth - it might be worth questioning.; 4/14/26, 8:40 AM
Peachy said...: Tucker is a fraud. and a liar.; 4/14/26, 8:40 AM
imTay said...: I just don't remember Trump running on the idea of effectuating the return of Jesus through starting the war between Israel and Gog and Magog.; 4/14/26, 8:43 AM
Peachy said...: "interesting "facts"" - LOL. You sound like Inag, Tim. Sad.; 4/14/26, 8:44 AM
narciso said...: What a blood thirsty ghoul you turned out dutch boy; 4/14/26, 8:45 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/14/26, 8:45 AM
imTay said...: "The investigation is not shut down"

Why was Joe Kent told not to look into it, even as he was the head of counterterrorism in the United States. This seems like it would fit in his purview as such, I guess he is a liar.; 4/14/26, 8:47 AM
Peachy said...: Because Trump didn't do that. Tim -8:43. So tired! This is the same shit we've heard from Jew hating/ Isreal hating leftists for decades.

Evil Christians want to trigger the second coming of Christ!; 4/14/26, 8:48 AM
Peachy said...: The notion that Tucker has insider info on anything is laughable.; 4/14/26, 8:49 AM
imTay said...: Talk about "blood thirsty." I am not the one here cheering on the bombing of children, of hospitals, of universities, of desalinization plants. I am not the one who thinks that the world is a zero sum game, and that we must prevail no matter how many must die.; 4/14/26, 8:50 AM
imTay said...: "The notion that Tucker has insider info on anything is laughable."

Joe Kent certainly did, he was the United States Director of Counterterrorism.; 4/14/26, 8:51 AM
jim said...: the power of positive ass kissing; 4/14/26, 8:52 AM
narciso said...: Hamas scum who delights in the bombing of pizzerias; 4/14/26, 8:53 AM
AMDG said...: Trump has always looked like the villain in one of those teen movies where the plot revolves around conflict between normies and preppies.

I know that women talk about other women as having RBF (Resting Bitch Face), Trump suffers from an extreme case of RDF (Resting Douche Face).; 4/14/26, 8:54 AM
D.D. Driver said...: China is breaking the Trump Blockade. Are we going to war with China now or are we going to chicken out? I'm praying for the chicken option 🐔.; 4/14/26, 8:55 AM
Peachy said...: Tim in Vermont.
But you want to skip to your conclusion - Tim. Israel and evil rightwingers who didn't think Kirk was conservative enough - killed him.

That it was a groomed REDDIT leftist - with a furry BF, and all of the clear evidence so far make that conclusion a reality - bothers the Isreal haters and the leftists with agendas.

Lets just ignore that leftists are on an assassination kick, all around.; 4/14/26, 8:55 AM
Peachy said...: AMDG - I bet you do, as well.; 4/14/26, 8:56 AM
Iman said...: “No shortage of beat-off material there.”

Jimmy Numbers… goin’ for the gold!; 4/14/26, 8:56 AM
Peachy said...: Images of Trump thru the decades makes his haters hate him more.
Gee - we are so shocked.; 4/14/26, 8:57 AM
narciso said...: It shows what they are; 4/14/26, 8:59 AM
narciso said...: They wanted him dead bankrupt and in jail; 4/14/26, 9:00 AM
bagoh20 said...: Looks like the Islamist supporters here are trying to turn this blog into a copy of the fever swamp they swim in on the internet. Crazy ravings that simultaneously sound unhinged while calling other people crazy is part of the lost period we will look back on like we do the Salem witch craze of the 1600's.
I don't know why you do this, but it's not convincing anyone. Maybe you're getting paid. That's the most charitable explanation.; 4/14/26, 9:01 AM
D.D. Driver said...: Hamas scum who delights in the bombing of pizzerias

As does Israel, who delights in leveling entire apartment buildings. According to the Isreali press (I-S-R-E-A-L-I P-R-E-S-S) EIGHTY-FUCKING-THREE PERECENT (83%) of the humans the IDF kills (murders) are civilians.

Israel is more like Hamas than it is like us. They are both groups of evil, murderous religious zealots. This isn't a case of good guys versus bad guys. It's evil guys versus other evil guys and we should stay out.; 4/14/26, 9:02 AM
D.D. Driver said...: https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-percent-civilians-militants/; 4/14/26, 9:03 AM
narciso said...: Yes its fake like yesterdays outrage

The rat poison infected nailbombs are real though

Thats what hamas produces; 4/14/26, 9:10 AM
Iman said...: I blame their love of moldy bread for their batshit craziness.; 4/14/26, 9:11 AM
narciso said...: What do they call it ergot; 4/14/26, 9:12 AM
Peachy said...: Here's Tucker's party in action; 4/14/26, 9:16 AM
narciso said...: Brain parasites starved; 4/14/26, 9:18 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Saudi Arabia Is Pressing U.S. to Drop Its Naval Blockade ~ WSJ
'Gulf energy exporters worry Iran could escalate and close the Bab al-Mandeb, the main exit route for bottlenecked Persian Gulf oil'

First Chinese tanker carrying Iranian oil passes through the blockade. Trump won't challenge China. It won't end well.

Looks like the US blockade is -- how did Trump put it? A "paper tiger". Yet more embarrassment.; 4/14/26, 9:19 AM
Peachy said...: Kak-Bot

"The U.S. blockade only applies to vessels traveling to or from Iranian ports, and the Rich Starry was transiting the strait from the United Arab Emirates and was therefore allowed to pass."; 4/14/26, 9:25 AM
narciso said...: Bush did nothing when suleimanis efp was murdering and maining servicemen by the scores

On the advice of liz or her successor who put maliki in power; 4/14/26, 9:26 AM
narciso said...: Thanks peachy

The iranian regime should have been put out of its misery years ago; 4/14/26, 9:28 AM
Howard said...: Gemini AI says: Narcissus, an exceptionally handsome Greek youth, spurned all admirers, including the nymph Echo, for which he was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Consumed by this unattainable vanity and unable to leave the image, he wasted away and died, turning into the narcissus flower.
Study.com
Study.com
+3; 4/14/26, 9:29 AM
narciso said...: Because there was an actually an iranian agent robert malley in the state department who planted operstives all through out the govt under the autopen; 4/14/26, 9:30 AM
narciso said...: Yeah the port of departure is sharjah one of our allies the uae; 4/14/26, 9:32 AM
Peachy said...: Kak-Bot - I thought you told us the WSJ was super-pals with Trump?; 4/14/26, 9:36 AM
Jake said...: the marxist here are getting boring. (yawn); 4/14/26, 9:36 AM
Peachy said...: Geez - these are basic images of Trump.
He is not staring longingly at his reflection in the mirror or the marble pool.; 4/14/26, 9:37 AM
john mosby said...: DDD: "It's evil guys versus other evil guys and we should stay out."

All the wars are evil guys vs other evil guys. Only reason to get in or out is if it serves our interests. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 9:58 AM
Inga said...: “You would have to be an idiot not to see he was and is an unhinged, raving lunatic.”

Well…yes.; 4/14/26, 10:03 AM
Peachy said...: MSNBC = unhinged raving lunatics - and those who watch and buy.; 4/14/26, 10:10 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "Yeah the port of departure is sharjah one of our allies the uae"

A number of ships, including the shadow-fleet oil tanker Elpis, which took on cargo in Iran, have transited the Strait of Hormuz, posing an early test for the new US naval blockade.

“Iran needs to gauge how seriously the US intends to enforce it, and Elpis is the guinea pig,” ~ Eurasia Group analyst Gregory Brew.; 4/14/26, 10:22 AM
Rustygrommet said...: I know the feeling Mr. President.; 4/14/26, 10:26 AM
bagoh20 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/14/26, 10:29 AM
bagoh20 said...: "unhinged, raving lunatic.”

Saying that about a highly successful billionaire business man in multiple fields over decades, who employs thousands around the world, and who has won the U.S. Presidency at least twice despite being opposed by the media, Hollywood, academia and the Democrat Party using the largest campaign expenditures in history against him, and who nearly every world leader envies and would love to talk to if they could,... well, that seems like the unhinged ravings of a lunatic.; 4/14/26, 10:31 AM
Iman said...: I see igna has stopped by and left her usual, stanky droppings.; 4/14/26, 10:47 AM
john mosby said...: The pics are cropped too close to see the unsuccessful time-travelling assassins in the background. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 10:48 AM
narciso said...: https://x.com/PaulDMauro/status/2043817718671876477; 4/14/26, 11:03 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/14/26, 11:03 AM
tommyesq said...: Millenials were identified as being obsessed with posting selfies on social media. Maybe this blog needs a "Trump is a Millenial" tag?; 4/14/26, 11:43 AM
Achilles said...: imTay said...

I just don't remember Trump running on the idea of effectuating the return of Jesus through starting the war between Israel and Gog and Magog.

That is because he didn't and he isn't doing that.

You are just a hallucinating retard that can't deal with cognitive dissonance and you are crying about being wrong.; 4/14/26, 11:51 AM
D.D. Driver said...: All the wars are evil guys vs other evil guys. Only reason to get in or out is if it serves our interests. CC, JSM

That is simply not true. Not "all wars" are battles between murderous blood thirsty evil savages. Educate yourself. Google the "Hannibal Directive" and tell me if Christians would do that.

They are not "like us."; 4/14/26, 11:55 AM
john mosby said...: Forever Young is a great song. Before you could look up lyrics at a keystroke, I thought it contained the line “life is a Chartres,” which made sense to me in part because the official video is in a sort of stained-glass set, and the great cathedrals freeze a culture and its people in time, forever young. Only well into this century did I discover the line is “life is a short trip.”

I got to see Mr Hudson cover it in a very small venue at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Also interesting as applied to Trump, the song has the line “are you gonna drop the bomb or not?” Maybe that’s his hidden message to the IRGC, who of course were educated in the west and know their New Wave. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 11:55 AM
john mosby said...: DDD: If they’re not “ battles between murderous blood thirsty evil savages,” they’re short and one-sided. The soldier sometimes sacrifices not only his life but also his soul and sanity to protect his people. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 11:57 AM
john mosby said...: And the Hannibal Directive sounds to me like Hawkeye mercy-killing the captive English officer in Last of the Mohicans. If that’s the most evil thing you can find in the IDF playbook, they are not evil enough. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 12:00 PM
john mosby said...: Another subliminal message to the IRGC: “the music’s played by the madman.” Part of his Crazy Nixon stratagem. CC, JSM; 4/14/26, 12:05 PM
Dr Weevil said...: imTay omFray ermontVay (8:34am) repeats a lie I've refuted here before: "why doesn't the bullet from Charlie Kirk match the purported gun"? They keep trying to imply there was a "mismatch" and therefore Tyler Robinson's gun didn't kill Kirk, so he must be a "patsy they pinned it on". In fact, the bullet was too broken up to test one way or the other: that's one reason it didn't exit Kirk's body. It probably hit bone.

The fact is that that is not a mismatch, or a match, it was a test that could not be used and therefore provided no evidence either way. Anyone who uses the words "match" and "mismatch" in this context is a liar or a fool. And we have a written confession from Tyler Robinson to his furry-trans lover, so there is no doubt that he did it. He also confessed to his father, who turned him in. And there is plenty of physical evidence. Tucker and company are trying to get a guilty man off because they're assholes. And the police are certainly investigating to see who else was an accessory before or after the fact, and I'm quite sure they will be prosecuted, too.; 4/14/26, 12:22 PM
Maynard said...: It is beyond hilarious to see Igna and her lefty buddies calling Trump a lunatic.

Projection is obviously your best defense. How very sad.; 4/14/26, 12:22 PM
Known Unknown said...: I wish blog comment killfile was still working here.; 4/14/26, 1:21 PM
Rustygrommet said...: KU
Then we'd miss all this entertainment.; 4/14/26, 2:30 PM
Jim at said...: It will forever be a stain on our country’s reputation that half of Americans supported this clown. To those who did, I say “Fuck You.”

Right back at ya, asshole.; 4/14/26, 6:26 PM
PigHelmet said...: I usually enjoy the light salting of reliably lefty commenters here, because their writing clangs so badly in contrast to, for instance, the thoughtful offerings of Temujin. The comparison provides clarity. But this one really brought them out in force! Too much of a muchness, as my sainted mother used to say.; 4/15/26, 8:53 AM