Donald Trump has had a very, very bad week. Apart from the fact that he woke up on Sunday and still saw Donald Trump in the mirror, things haven’t gotten any better.

He took a beating in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and then spent days insisting he didn’t.

He doubled down on all of the weird things he’s been saying about eating cats and aborting babies after they’re born.

He’s even had some unwanted scrutiny over a rumored affair with a woman that no man should ever consider embroiling himself with (see: Fatal Attraction).

But through it all, he’s got his trusty Truth Social account to help him cope. We here at PoliticalFlare have been using it as a sort of barometer for the way things are going at his campaign headquarters, based on the frequency and amplitude of the things he posts.

Is he revisiting old topics? Is he mad about something new? Every week, it seems that we can count on Trump to just go ahead and tell on himself.

On the heels of everyone picking up the new right-wing talking point — that the debate was “3 on 1,” meaning it was Trump versus Kamala and moderators who were friendly to her — Trump ran with it, and is still claiming that he won on Tuesday.

This, despite every meaningful news outlet in America reporting that Kamala essentially trounced him.

He kicked the day off by retweeting himself twice about the debate, then posting a few more messages about it, including:

“ABC FAKE NEWS has been completely discredited, and is now under investigation. Did they give Comrade Kamala the questions? It was 3 on 1, but they were mentally challenged people, against one person of extraordinary genius. It wasn’t even close, as is now reflected in the polls. I WON THE DEBATE!”

I’m not sure which things we’re still considering evidence of cognitive decline and which we think are just horrible personality traits now, but this one post alone has it all.

Name-calling? Check. False claims about someone “completely discredited” being “investigated” (for a thing nobody “investigates” anyone for)? Check. Nickname? Check. Claims of cheating? Check. Calling himself a genius? I’m surprised he didn’t lead with that.

And of course, a complete reversal of what’s actually happened, when he says “it wasn’t even close.” He’s right about this one, but wrong about who wasn’t close.

Then he moved on to another false claim about his rival, Kamala Harris, on the topic of Israel: “A vote for Comrade Kamala Harris is a vote to obliterate Israel,” he said at a rally the other day, retweeting video of it today.

Guess what, Donnie. Kamala is married to exactly one more Jewish person than you.

Trump has absolutely been on fire today. He posted a meme about Kamala saying she’d lower grocery prices on day one as President, asking why she doesn’t lower them now.

I don’t know if Team Trump honestly thinks their strategy of claiming that Harris is basically the president already is working, or if they’ve just forgotten how much time and money they’ve spent saying she’s never gotten anything done.

This post from midday veers from taking credit for ending Roe v. Wade (something he had literally nothing to do with) to impending war with Russia, because the man cannot stay on topic for more than a paragraph:

“With the long sought termination (52 years!), by everyone, including Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, and virtually all legal scholars and experts, and with the help of six very wise and brave Supreme Court Justices, I was successful in terminating Roe v. Wade – Something which few thought was possible to do! Everyone wanted it to go back to the States, and a VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, and not be in the Federal Government, where it never belonged. I GOT IT DONE, and now people are voting all over the USA. Some of the votes are more Liberal than would have been thought, but the Vote is the Vote! Like Ronald Reagan before me, and 90% of the Republican Party, I BELIEVE IN EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER – On that you must follow your heart! But remember, however, Republicans have to WIN ELECTIONS, AND LEAD OUR COUNTRY BACK TO GREATNESS! Russia is today talking WAR with the USA, we are closer than ever before, and only I can solve this dangerous situation!”

In the very next post, Trump again decries the “Low IQ” people he blames for things he did. “Russia has today threatened to use Nuclear Weapons, and we have Low IQ individuals, the same that messed up Afghanistan (who don’t have a clue!), in charge of this deadly situation,” he says, forgetting that it was him who negotiated the withdrawal from that country with the Taliban.

Probably the crowning jewel for me of all of his absolutely insane posts today is one where he posted a screencap of a known right-wing source of nonsense and lies claiming that he holds a 50 point lead in predictions for the Electoral College.

That’s not just funny, it’s completely bonkers. Does he believe that? At this point, I honestly cannot tell. Because if Trump thinks that he really has a 50 point lead in anything at all, he’s further gone than any of us could have ever thought.

Oh, Trump isn’t done!

Now he’s regurgitating his disgusting racism against immigrants, screaming, “As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America. We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration). I will save our cities and towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and all across America. MAGA2024!”