“Let’s see! My political Opponent, Crooked Joe Biden, tells Merrick Garland and the DOJ to indict and arrest me on bogus charges and accusations, trying desperately to steal the Election. But that wasn’t enough! He now wants Thug Prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, to file for a Court Order taking away my first amendment rights, SPEECH. So, based on yet another Radical Left Hoax, I’ll be the only ‘Politician’ in American history not allowed to SPEAK. THE NEVER ENDING WITCH HUNT CONTINUES. MAGA!” posted disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social early Tuesday, yet another in a long string of posts freaking out over the standard protective order prohibiting him from disclosing any grand jury material handed to his team in discovery ahead of trial on charges stemming from his failed attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election.

It’s not clear precisely why this is still bothering the fat bastard so much. In the Mar-a-Lago case his lawyers didn’t do anything to oppose the same type of protective order set by federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart after a request from Jack Smith’s team. They bitched a little bit over the terms set by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the Stormy Daniels payoff case, calling it an “unprecedented and extraordinarily broad muzzle on a leading contender for the presidency,” but we can’t recall Trump himself ever really addressing it. Maybe it was that Smith’s team highlighted that batshit “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” post in their protective order request in the coup attempt case (but not asserting it was a violation one way or another) that irked the fat bastard so badly, like he’s extra upset over them using his own words against him.

So butthurt was Trump and/or his lawyers over that on Monday his lawyers alleged a Biden Campaign tweet with a silly “Dark Brandon” meme on a coffee mug as somehow being a “thinly-veiled reference to the indictment” in their motion opposing the terms of the protective order.

Obviously it’s not government’s problem if Trump thinks that speaking about the case in broad terms while avoiding the specifics supplied to him by prosecutors in discovery is hindering his political speech. What’s the most on-brand aspect ever of this is that a leading presidential candidate can’t find anything else to talk about besides than the latest criminal case against him. Like God forbid Trump find some positive economic message to engage his supporters with rather than just endlessly shrieking about how unfair everything has been to him personally.

But that seems to fall short of explaining the freakout now when there was little and then none the previous two occasions a court stuck him with such an order. Is it as simple as a scared and angry 77 year-old toddler throwing a tantrum to assert that he’s in control here, not the adults? Is he just really, really, really fucking upset that he landed a DC judge who will make his life a living hell and is determined to bitch and scream about anything and everything going forward? Who knows.

Even if all the questions are kind of the same thing and their answers more or less obvious enough, it’s still worth asking out loud if there’s any one specific pain point for the fat bastard here.