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President Donald Trump has posted a link on Truth Social directing his followers to a meme invoking a long-running QAnon conspiracy theory.
The president posted the URL late Wednesday linking to an AI image of himself surrounded by crackling lightning and the slogans “The Storm is Coming” and “Nothing Can Stop What is Coming.” It was originally posted by an account called Spiritual Street Fighter.
The QAnon theory, which dates back to Trump’s first term in office, posits that the world is run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles that will be overthrown by a violent event ultimately leading to ‘the Great Awakening’.
A supposed government insider known as “Q” would post updates on message boards claiming that Trump was about to expose the situation and deliver justice to the perpetrators. Q warned this mythic elite would be engulfed by “the storm” in a battle between good and evil.
open image in gallery The new meme posted by President Donald Trump reviving the QAnon conspiracy theory ( Spiritual Street Fighter/Truth Social )
Extremism expert Mike Rothschild reacted to the commander-in-chief’s latest post by saying on X: “Trump is posting QAnon memes so frequently now that nobody even comments on it anymore.
“What is there to even say at this point? The most powerful man on the planet has severe internet brain worms, and nobody cares.”
A number of other X users took the president to task for posting “QAnon cult nonsense” and “raw Q marketing.”
While one-time advocates of the conspiracy theory like Marjorie Taylor Greene have lately attempted to distance themselves from it, Trump has long fanned the flames of the savior narrative and appears more reluctant to make a definite break.
open image in gallery Trump has long fanned the flames of the Q conspiracy movement but it has lost traction over the last few years after its prophecies repeatedly failed to come true and its instigator stopped posting ‘drops’ on right-wing message boards ( AFP/Getty )
During the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, he was given an opportunity to definitively disavow QAnon during a town hall event hosted by Savannah Guthrie by admitting it was “just crazy and not true.”
Instead, he answered only: “I don’t know about QAnon. What I do hear about it, they are very strongly against pedophilia.”
Trump’s social media output has caused regular concern of late, thanks to a serious of inflammatory posts since the commencement of the Iran war.
The president has posted increasingly wild threats against Tehran to end their civilization, attacked Pope Leo XIV for opposing the conflict, and posted memes of himself as Jesus Christ.
His messages have led Democrats and other critics to suggest he should be removed from power via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.