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On Friday, a prominent conservative journalist called it: President Donald Trump is \u201ccrashing out.\u201d This is according to National Review senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty, who argued that Trump\u2019s latest meltdown comes as his plans fall apart. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the last 24 hours,\u201d posted<\/u> Geraghty, \u201cTrump has shared on Truth Social a chart declaring he is the greatest president, above George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and, er, Woodrow Wilson; posted an AI-generated image of him walking arm-in-arm with Dolly Parton; declared the Strait of Hormuz \u2018U.S. territory\u2019 again; and enthusiastically announced that \u2018the U.S. Geological Survey has officially designated the former Lake Ontario to be renamed as Lake America in all official USGS electronic documents.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on this, Geraghty comes to a straightforward conclusion: \u201cHe is, as the kids say today, \u2018crashing out\u2019 \u2014 raging, fuming, lashing out, flitting from one concern to the next, frustrated that so many of his efforts have come to naught.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Geraghty noted, Trump had posted a chart ranking presidents, placing himself at the top. At the bottom, it declared that presidential \u201cfailures\u201d included Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Warren G. Harding, and Ulysses S. Grant \u2014 the last of whom famously led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War. He later posted another image declaring five presidents who \u201cbuilt\u201d America (including himself), and five who \u201cbroke\u201d it. Included on the \u201cbroke\u201d tier was Woodrow Wilson, who the previous chart declared was \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president also shared a fake image of himself walking with the recently deceased Dolly Parton, who he claimed \u201creally liked me.\u201d In reality, Parton was careful to maintain a nonpartisan stance, twice turning down Trump\u2019s offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she famously supported issues such as LGBTQ rights and and spent money out of her own pocket to fund coronavirus vaccine research. <\/p>\n

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Trump went on to post taunts at Canada and Iran, photos of horse statues being coated in gold, a smattering of other photos relating to his D.C. vanity projects, and an article with the headline, \u201cTrump’s chilling five-word response when asked if he’ll declare national emergency to control midterm elections.\u201d In the article<\/u>, Trump revealed his thoughts on whether he would declare an emergency to seize control of the midterms, saying, \u201cStranger things have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other conservatives noted their disgust amidst Trump\u2019s latest social media outburst. \u201cHe routinely abuses power in cruel, vindictive, and self-enriching ways,\u201d said former Marco Rubio Staffer Gregg Nunziata<\/u>, who slammed the president\u2019s \u201cchildish and historically illiterate buffoonery on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the conservative outlet the Dispatch, took issue with “the fact that the sitting president \u2014 during a war, in the lead up to the midterms, during a period of great anxiety \u2014 is casually posting about how he\u2019s the greatest president ever. I get that defenders think it\u2019s brilliant because it\u2019s trolling. That\u2019s pathetic in its own right. But a president trolling about how awesome he is when his approval rating is in the low 30s isn\u2019t smart, clever, or wise. It\u2019s sad and disturbing.”<\/p>\n

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