Everyone needs to understand what Donald Trump is planning.

If he allows SNAP benefits to expire for over 41 million Americans on November 1st during his shutdown, it won’t be by accident.

It’ll be by design.

Here’s how I think this goes — and how we can stop it [THREAD🧵] Trump’s shutdown isn’t about budgets. It’s about CONTROL.

He INSTRUCTED @SpeakerJohnson to keep the government closed — and Johnson obeyed his master.

Everything that happens next flows from that fact.

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This might be the single most dangerous story of Trump’s regime.

He’s already taken over Congress, the DOJ, the FBI, SCOTUS, and every federal agency.

Now his allies are privately funding the U.S. military.

If he captures them too, America as we know it ENDS. [THREAD🧵]

https://twitter.com/adamcancryn/status/1981780728187904031

The Pentagon just confirmed that it accepted $130 million from “an anonymous Trump ally” to pay U.S. troops during the shutdown.

That’s not just unethical; it’s a NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS.

Here’s why this crosses every legal and moral line imaginable…

Truman rebuilt the interior after it literally fell apart

FDR expanded the West Wing to improve workspace

Kennedy restored historic art & furniture

Obama made the building more energy efficient

None of them BULLDOZED AN ENTIRE WING to build themselves a $200 million ballroom Trump isn’t just knocking down walls — he’s defacing our history. The White House IS NOT HIS to redecorate/destroy. It belongs to the American people. Every inch of it represents democracy, continuity, and the sacrifices made to preserve it.

SIMPLE FACTS:

1. Your party controls all three branches of government. Democrats could not shut it down, nor can they reopen it.

2. Trump admitted he WANTED this shutdown.

3. HE TOLD YOU AND THE REST OF THE @GOP TO DO IT AND YOU OBEYED HIM LIKE THE SPINELESS TRAITORS YOU ARE.

https://twitter.com/speakerjohnson/status/1979224949333070266

Here’s what happened:

1. House Republicans pushed through an extremist reconciliation bill that has poison-pill provisions — including one that lets ACA subsidies expire at year’s end, yanking affordable health coverage from ~15 million people and hiking costs for millions more

MAGA is incensed that their false prophet didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, actually. Trump even being *floated* for the prize is not a compliment. It’s a SICK MORAL JOKE — political malpractice dressed up as a medal that would have ended the award’s prestige (THREAD) 🧵 The man they want to celebrate spent YEARS cozying up to autocrats, praising strongmen, and kowtowing to dictators who crush dissent. That is the LITERAL OPPOSITE of peacebuilding.

Why is @JDVance always whining that people don’t “show enough gratitude”? Let’s break down the psychology behind his fixation — because it says way more about him than anyone else. (Thread)🧵

https://twitter.com/cardon_brian/status/1974845259546046968

First off, “gratitude” is Vance-speak for subservience. For submission. He doesn’t mean “you need to show more thanks.” He means: you need to sit down, shut up, and be deferential to people like ME. It’s about HIERARCHY, not humility.

Is Trump intentionally trying to provoke civil unrest? Yes.

And the reason is simple: chaos benefits him. Unrest isn’t a side effect of Trumpism — it’s the plan (THREAD 🧵).

https://twitter.com/mollyploofkins/status/1972072972828713389

Strongmen (weak wannabe dictators) throughout history have used civil unrest as a weapon. They manufacture crisis to justify “extraordinary” measures; consolidate power; villainize their opposition; and paint themselves as the only ones who can “restore law and order.”

I cannot think of a more blatant act of treason than a U.S. President openly declaring war on his own people/cities.

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1969154946491957482

He’s not even hiding it anymore: @realDonaldTrump is openly fantasizing about using the tools of war against U.S. citizens. That’s not “law and order.” It’s authoritarianism.

This is total projection and gaslighting from @JDVance. If you look at the actual data, the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of politically motivated violence and extremist plots in the U.S. come from the FAR-RIGHT, not the left. (Thread 🧵)

https://twitter.com/bulwarkonline/status/1967652690114343274

1. Killings by extremists, by ideology

• From 1975 through Sept. 10, 2025: ~3,599 people have been murdered in politically motivated terrorist attacks in the U.S.
• Of those, right-wing terrorists are responsible for 391 murders (≈ 11%), left-wing terrorists for 65 murders (≈ 2%), and Islamist extremists make up the largest portion (≈ 87%) driven largely by the 9/11 attacks.

I’d ask what kind of person would eulogize her husband by making thinly veiled threats against people who had nothing to do with his death, but the answer is the same type of woman who would marry Charlie Kirk.

https://twitter.com/lucassa56947288/status/1966676782934888455

As a psychologist who specializes in bereavement, her words don’t read like grief at all. They read like rage. Not the grief of someone who lost the love of their life, but the fury of someone whose shared hatred just lost its co-pilot. Let’s break down why this is so chilling 🧵

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday. Now the entire right is already blaming “the left’s rhetoric” and declaring “This is war!” His death was horrific.

But let’s be really clear: if anyone’s *rhetoric* is responsible, it’s Donald Trump’s and the MAGA right’s (THREAD 🧵)

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1966247866177040783

Just 5 days ago, Trump literally declared “war” on Democrat-run cities. He’s called Democrats “the enemy within.” He’s built his entire political movement on rage, dehumanization, and violence. That’s the rhetoric that’s “poisoning the blood” of America. Not immigrants.

Here’s a transcript of Trump’s “Rose Garden Club” speech. If you ever wondered what full-blown dementia and narcissistic collapse sound like, it sounds like THIS:


Continued (1):

.@RobertKennedyJr was put in charge of HHS specifically to make us weaker, sicker, and more vulnerable. This administration does not want to “Make America Healthy Again.” Every move they make is DESIGNED to POISON, STARVE, TRAP, and KILL us. It’s not negligence. It’s strategy. 🧵 Forcing senior leaders at the CDC out of their positions to roll back vaccine mandates and stop efforts to prevent food-borne illnesses doesn’t just risk more disease and death. It makes Americans UNDESIRABLE to the rest of the world. Who wants refugees carrying viral outbreaks?

Trump’s plan to rip U.S. Space Command HQ out of Colorado and dump it in Alabama is reckless, wasteful, and dangerous. It also dramatically weakens our national security at the worst possible time (THREAD 🧵). Space Command is the nerve center of America’s nuclear defense. It detects launches anywhere on earth, tracks ICBMs, coordinates interagency responses, and protects satellite comms in a crisis. In a nuclear emergency, every second counts — moving it disrupts all of that.

If Trump were a Russian asset, tasked with destroying America from the inside…what would he be doing differently than what he’s actually done since Jan 20th?

Let’s walk through it (THREAD 🧵). ✅ Undermine alliances

A Russian asset would sow doubt about NATO’s security guarantees in an effort to weaken and undermine the alliance [one of Putin’s primary goals].

Trump has waffled on Article 5, threatened to abandon allies and called them “delinquent.”

Trump’s 2AM meltdowns and dictator cosplay aren’t part of a predetermined strategy — they’re collapse. A malignant narcissist, weak and unhealthy, colliding with the one thing he can’t escape: DEATH. And his team knows it, which is why they’re going full-fascist now. (THREAD 🧵) As a psychologist, I can tell you: when malignant narcissists lose control, they don’t fade quietly. They escalate exponentially — rage, smear campaigns, humiliation, projection, even violence. Every move is about punishing those who expose their weakness to claw back control.

.@realDonaldTrump:

1. There is no such thing as networks paying “license fees” to the government for news coverage, you hopelessly deranged lunatic. Broadcast stations need an FCC license, but networks themselves do not “pay up” like that. 2. The First Amendment exists. Remember that pesky document you pledged an oath to uphold and defend before lighting on fire? Its still in effect. The government can’t just yank licenses from broadcast networks because it doesn’t like their coverage, no matter how crazy you are.

🚨🚨🚨 Donald Trump just had @PeteHegseth carry out a FULL-BLOWN PURGE of America’s top military and national defense officials. Here’s the full list of who this dangerously unqualified, traitorous ex-@FoxNews hack just axed and the perilous implications for our country (THREAD): ❌ The CJCS (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) → the top U.S. general & principal military advisor to the President

❌ The CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) → runs the entire Navy, responsible for global readiness to attacks from overseas

.@MELANIATRUMP just sent Putin one of the most nauseatingly fake “peace letters” you’ll ever see. Let’s rip it apart, because it deserves to be set on fire and the earth salted. (THREAD🧵) She starts off waxing poetic in comically vague flowery language about children’s “dreams of love, possibility, and safety from danger.”
How adorable. Except she’s writing to the guy LITERALLY BOMBING CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS, SHELTERS, & HOSPITALS. Safe from danger? Try safe from HIM

We can never allow Trump to outrun the shame of his #TreasonSummit. Let’s recap how this started and then review what happened yesterday, which was Trump kissing Putin’s ass in a display so weak and groveling it made his performance in Helsinki look “tough on Russia.”
(THREAD 🧵) Two weeks ago, Trump was raging about Russia “slaughtering civilians” in Ukraine and expressing—for perhaps the first time—disgust with Putin and Russia. He vowed “very harsh sanctions.” He even threatened to send nuclear subs near Russia and pretended to be a tough NATO ally.

“They’re just trying to distract from all the incredible things I’m doing!” —@realDonaldTrump

You keep hearing Trump say this.

But ask yourself…

What exactly are the accomplishments he’s talking about?

Spoiler: there aren’t any. Let’s break it down (THREAD🧵) 1. Trump says he’s “restoring law and order.”

In reality, he’s:
• Purging the DOJ of anyone who won’t protect him
• Threatening to imprison political enemies
• Encouraging state violence against protesters

That’s not “law and order.” It’s authoritarianism.