'Detached from reality': Trump’s overnight Truth Social spree hit with rapid-fire fact check

President Donald Trump’s massive overnight social media spree — promoting dozens of posts in a 12-hour period — has been called out in the media and by critics, but one CNN fact-checker is labeling it “detached from reality.”

“It’s hard to explain just how detached from reality President Trump’s conspiracy-theory-filled social media posting spree last night and this morning was,” wrote CNN’s Daniel Dale.

“One easy example: The president shared a completely made-up and frankly nonsensical ‘quote’ about former president Obama the post attributed to GOP Sen. John Kennedy,” Dale said. “The fake quote originated with a ‘satire’ website, basically a fakery factory, that invents stories to be shared by online conservatives.”

Dale noted that “versions of this particular fake quote have been wrongly attributed to everyone from Kash Patel to Madonna.”

The posting spree came just hours before Trump is set to board Air Force One to head to China, a critical trip for foreign relations, the war in Iran, and the U.S. economy.

“Amid the flurry of conspiracy-minded messages he reposted from followers were baseless accusations that Obama had been involved in a ‘coup plot’ by ordering the intelligence community to spy on him during his 2016 presidential run,” The Independent reported, “that he ordered his Department of Justice not to prosecute Hillary Clinton after her emails were leaked, and that he had profited illegally from the Affordable Care Act.”

Dale also said that Trump made a “false and quite bewildering claim” on Truth Social: “No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba.”

He reported that there are “lots of examples of Republicans describing having spoken to Trump about Cuba, and obviously Republicans within his administration talk to him about Cuba.”

Dale also pointed to remarks Trump made in 2019 about then-U.S. Senator Marco Rubio talking with him about Cuba.

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