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Letters from an American

August 18, 2025

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Politics, News, History

53.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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August 18, 2025.

0:09.0

This morning, J.D. Wolf of Midas News pulled together all of Trump's self-congratulatory posts from Sunday morning.

0:18.0

When the president evidently was boosting his ego after Friday's disastrous meeting

0:22.7

with Russia's president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump shared an AI-generated meme of himself with a large

0:30.4

male lion standing next to him and the words, peace through strength, anyone can make war, but only most courageous can make peace.

0:40.9

He posted memes claiming he is the best president in American history, and the greatest of all

0:47.6

time, a legend. Trump also reposted material from two Q&ON-related accounts and pushed the Q&OND

0:56.6

on belief that the Democratic Party is the party of hate, evil, and Satan.

1:02.6

Trump has faced a rebellion among his Q&N supporters as he and administration officials

1:07.2

have refused to release information from the federal investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

1:13.6

and have moved Epstein's associate, Gielane Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking children, to a minimum security prison camp and given her work release privileges.

1:23.6

It appears he's working to make Q&ONS supporters forget that he was named in those files and to lure them back to his support.

1:32.3

For their part, Russia today trolled Trump's Peace Through Strength boast this morning by posting a video of an armored vehicle first going slowly on a road and then dramatically speeding up.

1:45.1

The vehicle was flying both Russian and U.S. flags.

1:50.3

Trump's social media account this morning posted a long screed saying the president is going

1:56.3

to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines and lying that the U.S. is

2:02.4

the only country that uses mail-in voting because it is rife with fraud.

2:07.8

As usual, the Post claimed that Democrats cheat at levels never seen before and claimed

2:13.9

they are virtually unelectable without using this completely disproven mail-in scam.

2:21.3

The Post said he would sign an executive order to help bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections.

2:29.3

Then the Post claimed that the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes.

2:36.4

They must do what the federal government, as represented by the President of the United States,

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