What happened on the evening of April 2, 2026, was the kind of moment that made everyone stop and stare at their screens, questioning whether what they were seeing could possibly be real. Within thirty minutes of posting his message announcing the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump published another post on his Truth Social platform that was so bizarre and so clearly targeting Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett that it sent the internet into a complete spiral. People across social media began openly and loudly questioning his mental stability, and the reaction was as swift as it was alarmed.
The post itself was something no political strategist, no speechwriter, and no rational adult could have drafted with a straight face. Trump shared an image of actor Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontier hero Davy Crockett in the classic 1954 Disney five-part miniseries, dressed in his famous raccoon skin hat. The show’s beloved theme song, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” played beneath the still shot of Parker.
Trump wrote alongside it, “Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett, and a very High IQ Frontiersman, would be proud of the legacy that he began long ago, and especially Jasmine’s Great Success as a Politician from the Great State of Texas!”
There is just one glaring problem with that post. Davy Crockett was from Tennessee, not Texas. He did die in Texas at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, after crossing state lines to join the Texas Revolution. But the two are not exactly interchangeable points of pride.
Crockett, the Texas Democrat who has long been one of Trump’s sharpest critics in Congress, did not miss the moment. She fired back with full confidence on X.
“The President is clearly already missing me as many others will… but, lucky for you, Sir, I’m in the seat until January and have no plans of taking my foot off the gas on behalf of the American people,” she wrote.
She then twisted the knife a little further. “I wonder if this has anything to do with my questioning of Pam Bondi????!!!” she added mockingly.
The connection she’s pointing to is not hard to follow. Just weeks earlier, Crockett was among the House Judiciary Committee members who pressed Bondi hard during a contentious February congressional hearing. The subject of that hearing was the Jeffrey Epstein files, the millions of pages of documents that Bondi had spent nearly a year delaying and blocking from public view.
Bondi had promised to release those files when she was confirmed. Trump himself had made the same promise on the 2024 campaign trail. Once back in office, both did everything possible to stall the process until Congress forced their hand with a formal mandate last December.
By the time Bondi was fired, she still had not released everything. The files, according to reporting, mention Trump more than 4,500 times. They also include references to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and billionaire Elon Musk, among others in Trump’s orbit.
Crockett also responded to the Bondi firing directly, calling it a familiar and troubling pattern.
“Well… first it was Kristi Noem, now it’s Pam Bondi… it would be too much like right that Pete be next. I see a theme. He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men,” she posted on X. “We need a do-over.”
The reaction on social media to Trump’s Davy Crockett post was a loud, disbelieving chorus. One Threads user wrote in all caps, “I CAN NO LONGER DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HIS LIES, HIS IGNORANCE, AND HIS DEMENTIA.” Another added, “It’s terrifying to know that someone like him is in charge of the nuclear codes.”
A user named The Surgeon directed a message squarely at the opposition party: “FFS, REPUBLICANS… DO SOMETHING.”
Others kept it simpler. “He’s off his rocker,” one poster declared. Another, Ramona Bu, aimed her humor at White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles: “Susie Wiles, your Kindergarten sucks. The orange fat kid with the oversized diapers has the phone again.”
What makes this moment even harder to dismiss is that it is not the first time Trump has gone down this particular road. Back in August 2025, during a Squawk Box interview, he called Crockett a “low IQ” lawmaker, one of his favorite go-to insults for Democratic politicians he dislikes. He also mused out loud, more than once, about whether she might be related to Davy Crockett.
“I wonder if she’s any relationship to the late, great Davy Crockett, who was a great, great gentleman,” Trump said during that interview. “I wonder if she’s got any relationship to Davy Crockett. The great old Davy Crockett,” he repeated, seemingly unable to stop himself.
The pattern is clear. Whenever Crockett gets under Trump’s skin, the Davy Crockett fixation resurfaces. The only difference this time is the timing: it came right after he signed off on his attorney general’s exit, a firing that now looks deeply connected to the very congressional pressure Crockett helped apply.
