The Post That Put the Senate on Notice
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social under his handle @realDonaldTrump to deliver what reads as a last-call warning to Senate Republicans. The message was pointed squarely at Senate Majority Leader John Thune, though its scope stretched well beyond him to the entire Republican-controlled Senate. For Trump, the filibuster is not a procedural detail but a survival question, and he wrote as much.
Strong Words for Republicans Who Will Not Act
Trump's post opened with a direct broadside against members of his own party who resist ending the filibuster. Anyone in that camp, he wrote, is "a FOOL, a very stupid one, at that." His core argument was one of timing and inevitability. If Democrats come back to power, they will not hesitate to end the filibuster themselves, doing it "within minutes of taking office." The difference, in Trump's framing, is that Republicans would at least be acting on their own terms rather than watching the opposition do it for them.
What a Democratic Majority Would Look Like Without the Filibuster
Trump outlined a detailed scenario of what he believes a newly empowered Democratic majority would do first. The opening move would be adding 2 new Radical Left States, which would automatically seat 4 additional Democrat Senators and send many new Congressmen/women to the House. From there, Trump pointed to what he called Democrats' long-held ambition of filling the Supreme Court with 21 justices. He noted with some emphasis that the target number is 21 and not 13, writing that Democrats specifically avoided 13 because, in his words, it is "an unlucky number."
With these new states, new legislators, and a reshaped Supreme Court in place, Trump argued that the Electoral College math would become "an impossible to beat number" for any Republican candidate. Add to that what he described as "Popular" Vote Landslides, and the picture Trump painted is of a political lock that Republicans would never be able to break. His conclusion was blunt: the Republican Party "will never win another Election."
A Personal Prediction That Stands Out
The most striking line in the post was not about strategy. It was personal. Trump wrote that he will "sadly, be the last Republican President" if the Senate does not move. He reserved particular criticism for those who will simply stand by without acting, warning that they will end up "on the wrong side of History." Stepping outside party politics entirely, he framed the stakes in national terms: "The Republican Party isn't at stake, our Country is."
The Demand: Terminate the Filibuster and Pass the Save America Act
Trump closed with an all-caps instruction that left no room for ambiguity: "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, AND IMMEDIATELY APPROVE THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A." He signed the post as President DONALD J. TRUMP.
