At 10:15 p.m. on Monday night, while most of the country was winding down for bed, the 79-year-old President of the United States was just getting warmed up.
Post after post, repost after repost, Donald Trump lit up his Truth Social feed like a man with nowhere to be in the morning and nothing to lose by morning. By 1:13 a.m., he had published more than 55 posts in just under three hours, averaging one every three minutes.
The topics ranged from a seven-year-old conspiracy theory about Barack Obama plotting a coup, to demands that Senator Mark Kelly resign, to a random video clip of someone knocking over a waiter’s tray at a Florida restaurant.
And yes, he also found time to advocate for his face to be carved onto Mount Rushmore. The internet, predictably, lost its mind.
From the Oval Office to the Phone Screen at Midnight
Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:
10:15 PM – Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM – Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM – Reposts tweet saying Obama is a…— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) May 12, 2026
Liberal political commentator Harry Sisson, who has over 388,000 followers on X, was among the first to catalog the overnight chaos.
“Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours,” Sisson wrote, going on to list the posts by timestamp and topic. The thread went viral almost immediately, racking up tens of thousands of engagements before sunrise.
But what made this particular spree stand out was not just the sheer volume. It was the content. Trump went after Obama three separate times in a single minute, at 10:15 p.m. alone, accusing him of attempting a coup in 2016, claiming he worked with the CIA to overthrow Trump, and reposting a tweet calling Obama a “traitor” who should be arrested.
By 10:22 p.m., he had shifted to the 2020 election, renewing his attacks on Dominion Voting Systems, despite the company’s landmark legal win against Fox News in 2023, which ended in a massive payout and the firing of Tucker Carlson. By 10:29 p.m., he was posting Fox News clips and going after Fulton County, Georgia, again.
Former MSNBC journalist and current Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan captured what many journalists were quietly thinking when he wrote on X, “How do you cover this?”
The Numbers Don’t Lie, and They Are Wild
The scale of Trump’s Truth Social activity in 2025 and 2026 has ballooned to levels that genuinely stun analysts who track it. According to data compiled by Roll Call, Trump has posted over 7,000 times on Truth Social in the past year and over 700 times in the last month alone.
A Daily Beast analysis found that in April alone, he made 565 posts, roughly 18 a day, compared to just 250 posts across the entire month of April 2018 during his first term. A full third of that output now comes during nighttime hours.
In December 2025, Trump posted 158 times between midnight and 3 a.m., according to Axios. Between January 2025 and January 2026, he posted over 300 times at midnight and over 100 times at 1 a.m. His own press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed this at a Turning Point USA event.
Asked what keeps her “up at night,” Leavitt laughed and said it was Trump’s “crazy” nocturnal nature. “The fact that my boss is up all night and probably going to call at any hour,” she said, adding that the president sleeps “very little.”
According to reports, Trump himself said that he goes to bed between midnight and 1 a.m. and wakes up around 6 a.m. That is, at best, five hours.
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But Here’s Where It Gets Uncomfortable
Here’s the part that does not add up when you lay it all side by side. While Trump is apparently wide awake and furiously posting between midnight and 2 a.m., he is being repeatedly caught on camera fighting to stay conscious during official White House events in the middle of the day.
On May 11, during an Oval Office event focused on maternal health, cameras captured Trump’s eyes sliding shut and his face going slack as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke.
Reports described him as “jerking awake” after RFK Jr. finished. White House rapid response posted on X in response: “He was blinking, you absolute moron.” Most people who watched the footage were not buying it.
He was blinking, you absolute moron https://t.co/7gw3n7l8R3
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 11, 2026
It was not the first time, not even close. The week before that, cameras caught Trump slipping into a “heavy-eyed daze” during a signing ceremony for the Presidential Fitness Test. In March, he appeared to doze for at least 30 seconds while House Speaker Mike Johnson was mid-sentence.
In late 2025, he was caught nodding off during a Cabinet meeting and a press conference about prescription drug costs. In April 2025, he appeared to fall asleep at the funeral for Pope Francis. The hashtag “Dozy Don” has trended multiple times this year.
What Medical Experts Are Actually Saying
The president is overdue for his annual physical exam. https://t.co/h6DQfZ6ih5
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) May 11, 2026
Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as White House physician under President George W. Bush and is now CNN’s medical analyst, has weighed in carefully but clearly. “When a patient tells me that they can’t stay awake in meetings, we do formal sleep testing to look for sleep apnea,”
“I’m sure the White House medical team has done this, but the president continues to struggle with daytime somnolence. This is a common problem, and there are things that can be done to improve these symptoms.” He also wrote on X on May 11, “The president is overdue for his annual physical exam.”
A Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital survey found that people who get fewer than five hours of sleep face double the risk of dementia compared to those sleeping seven to eight hours.
Trump’s own stated sleep schedule puts him squarely in that under-five-hours bracket. His father, Fred Trump Sr., suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his final years before passing in 1999. No new medical diagnosis has been officially confirmed or released by the White House.
A Take Nobody Wants To Say Out Loud
Here is something worth sitting with: what if the overnight posting sprees are not a sign of mental instability, but a deliberate strategy that is working exactly as intended?
Psychologist Greg Kushnick, who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy, told HuffPost that Trump’s posting behavior fits a well-documented pattern around social media and attention. “From a secure marketing perspective, he is getting the desired attention that he constantly craves,” Kushnick said.
He pointed to what researchers call “The Slot Machine Effect.” The unpredictable nature of social media engagement produces consistent dopamine spikes that keep users posting more and more, chasing the next reaction.
Put simply: every time Trump posts something outrageous at midnight, and the entire internet erupts into discussion by morning, that is the reward. We are all the slot machine. And every article written about it, including this one, is another pull of the lever.
The question, then, is not just about whether Trump is well or unwell. It is about whether we have collectively figured out how to stop feeding the machine.
So far, the answer is clearly no. And at 10:15 p.m. tonight, somewhere in the White House, that machine is probably already warming back up.