It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a big fan of his. Countless mental health experts and even Republicans have diagnosed the former president as a raging narcissist. But a new photo circulating on social media is perhaps the most direct demonstration of President Trump’s narcissism possible. President Trump’s iPhone wallpaper is just a photo of himself.
The image on the home screen of President Trump’s phone appears to be a July 19, 2019 photo taken while neo-fascist fraudsters occupied the White House, according to Getty Images photographer Chip Somodevilla. Photographed. Trump, who has often criticized other presidents like Barack Obama and Joe Biden for taking too much vacation, said he “traveled to New Jersey to host a fundraising dinner and… “Spending the weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster,” according to the caption via Getty Images.
For context, this photo was taken at the height of President Trump’s family separation policy against immigrants, which involved forcibly separating children from their parents at the border and forcing them into the same kinds of detention centers that President Trump vowed to bring back. sent the children. When this photo was taken, Trump’s lawyers at the U.S. Department of Justice had just argued in court that the U.S. government has no responsibility to provide soap or toothpaste to children in its custody. They also argued there was no need to provide beds or cots to migrants sleeping on the ground in overcrowded government-run cages. You know, the good old days of Trump.
The photo revealing President Trump’s wallpaper, which was posted on Reddit before being deleted on Tuesday for some unknown reason, shows President Trump and a group of YouTubers known as the Nerk Boys. The men, who also host a podcast called “Full Send,” recently pulled pranks in their videos, including bringing a food truck to Springfield, Ohio, where they encouraged people to buy dog and cat meat. This is a reference to President Trump’s racist memes. False claims that Haitian immigrants were eating livestock helped spread.
As far as Gizmodo knows, it’s not immediately clear where the Nerk Boys photo on Reddit came from. That’s because the photos are not posted on the podcaster’s social media channels or those of Trump or his close circle of friends. Gizmodo learned of this strange fact after reporter Carl Bode first pointed it out in a post on Bluesky on Tuesday, after analyzing old photos and videos showing President Trump’s cell phone. As you can see, this wallpaper is not new.
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmidt, who is up for re-election this year, posted a photo of himself with Trump on his Facebook page on October 5, where you can also see a wallpaper of Trump. Schmidt was traveling with Trump to Butler, Pennsylvania. There was that infamous rally where Elon Musk jumped up and down, exposed his stomach, and generally looked like a real weirdo. Schmidt is rumored to be on President Trump’s “list of nominees” for attorney general.
If you zoom in on the phone on the table, you’ll see President Trump holding a wallpaper of himself pointing at the camera. It’s definitely the same wallpaper, though it’s much harder to see than the images that have been circulating on social media this week.
A video of President Trump playing golf in late 2023 also clearly shows the former president’s cell phone with a strange wallpaper set on it. Benny Johnson, the right-wing influencer who was exposed last month for receiving large sums of money in a political influence operation tied to the Russian government, posted a video of President Trump’s golf cart on YouTube in December 2023. .
The image is pixelated when zoomed in, but if you look at the photo elsewhere you’ll notice that it’s clearly the same 2019 photo that President Trump has been using as wallpaper for a while.
Johnson also commented on Trump’s phone wallpaper in his video, and the 37-year-old influencer said that rather than seeing it as a sign of a deeply narcissistic and sick mind, He seems to like it.
“Did you see Donald Trump’s phone there?” Johnson asked in the video. “This is what Donald Trump looks like on the background screen of Donald Trump’s phone. Donald Trump’s wallpaper is Donald Trump staring into the barrel of a camera and pointing.”
“Brother! Do you love this guy more? He knows he’s a meme, and that’s where his power comes from,” Johnson continued.
The former president has held neo-fascist rallies and gone on the campaign trail, posed for photos in disaster-stricken areas and vowed to send the military to hunt down his political opponents beyond Election Day. President Trump has threatened to prosecute or punish people he considers enemies more than 100 times, according to a new count from NPR.
Still, polls show Trump still tied with Kamala Harris. With two weeks left until Election Day on Nov. 5, Harris leads by just 1.7 percentage points, according to an average of 538 national polls. And the margins are even tighter in battleground states where Harris needs to win to secure the White House. In Michigan, Harris’ increase was just 0.1%, and in Wisconsin, it was just 0.4%. And in Pennsylvania, believe it or not, Trump has actually led in recent days, up 0.4%, according to the state’s average of 538 polls. The person who wins these three states is likely to be elected president.
Trump, who has been convicted of 34 felonies and is a convicted rapist, somehow has the potential to become president again. If that happens, Americans will obviously face great hardship. Because the narcissist chief executive cares about no one but himself, as evidenced by his iPhone wallpaper and countless other facts. And if given the reins of power again, he intends to inflict as much pain as possible.
