"John Barron" called CSPAN Friday

[ybbor]

Last edited Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:07 AM - Edit history (1)

(Apparently it was a spoof, but still, the fact that for a minute we could imagine it’s true is pretty sad)

Just read on HuffPost that a caller who sounded an awful lot like TSF, and going by John Barron, TSF’s pseudonym from the past, read SCOTUS the riot act. It would be hilarious, ok it kinda is, if he didn’t have the nuclear codes.

[Dave Bowman]

1. He's so dumb that he probably also believes that if he puts on a fake mustache nobody will recognize him.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. He's

a True Idiot! Someone needs to change his DIAPER and tuck that baby in.

[True Dough]

3. Turns out it was not Trump

CSPAN
@cspan

Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. Thanks for the update

I was skeptical of it being him.

[ybbor]

7. Thanks True Dough

Unfortunately, it’s a shame that we could even imagine our president doing such a sadly, ridiculous act.

But thanks for providing the info!

✌🏻

[IzzaNuDay]

4. Stupid

Barron is his son’s name
John is his middle name

what a fool!

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. dump isn't very bright

In this instance it wasn't him. See post 3.

[Jack Valentino]

8. Seems to have been a fraud---

I didn't hear the actual thing myself---

although the perpetrator, as I read from news quotes,
seemed to have gotten the 'Trump thing'
about not being able to finish a single complete sentence
just about right !!!