The Reaper Should Have Gone To SpecSavers - Trump Thread #168

That he wrote it no. My money is he was being told about the costings for his projects. He said "phone someone and get the price down, give them anything they want to get the cost down". And bobs yer uncle.

In a few weeks he will be boasting about how his ballroom has the best 10 million year rated granite.

And I relent slightly because that was actually funny.

Adding: True story - one of my siblings was posted to a far flung embassy and when they had dignitaries visit, people used to jockey to be part of the team. When Paul visited, they were basically having to offer significant bribes and threats to get people to host. Let's say, there was some quiet sympathy for his neighbour at the time.

Is that why the proclamation says it's ok to import from Australia: they've banned making it, so they won't be exporting it?

The reflecting pool thing is an absolute debacle for them. Apparently the dismissal is full of inter-governmental blame and finger pointing. I'd love to see how Fox News covers this (although not willing to subject myself to it to find out).

Isn't that the stuff that Australia has banned because the fabricators all die of a terrible lung disease from the silica?

https://www.crb-gmbh.com/en/newspost/banned-quartz-composite-countertops-australia?srsltid=AfmBOoqC9tDo97RsXYUiYcymI3xwuMwCg-sUTFI9XhOoJ6VS0sSs1Xfu

Is there a single person in the entire world who believes Trump had anything to do with that, or even knew it was being promulgated with his name under it? "I" this and that, phooey. He wouldn't be able to read all the way through it without getting a nosebleed.

I don't think that exactly covers the 250 years you cited.

I'm not going to bother responding to the rest because, honestly, @SerendipityJane, I've been amused and interested by your posts for a long time, but not recently. I know you say it as you see it, but of late, I've found your takes un-nuanced, unamusing and bordering on bigoted, so I'll just stay off them and leave you to it.

With tomorrow's date?

He is not dead yet.

I saw the photo of him. He even had a newspaper.

And Mitch McConnell.

I had it on the Bingo card that he would blame Lindsey Graham. Give it time. Someone has to suggest it to him first.

If only someone, somewhere had warned him.

However a much better story that we could sell to Donald is that Hegseth and Rubio and Musk all conspired to hide the problems in attaching Iran with the express purpose of getting him removed from office as otherwise he would be the greatest POTUS ever. That could be ratings gold, so easy to spread.

Then grab some popcorn.

Heather Cox Richardson worth reading today. It’s a long post so I’ll just drop the first paragraph here:

“Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas, Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reported Wednesday that President Donald J. Trump is “exasperated” that the Iran war is dragging on and that his advisors can’t agree what to do next. Reportedly, he erupted last week during a meeting with his national security team, shouting expletives at the officials in the room. One of Trump’s allies told the reporters that Trump had not expected the war to last as long as it has. “There was not a real strategy for how long or what they should do to get to the endpoint.... He did not intend this to be a long, drawn-out war,” the person said.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-31-2026

The Cabinet meeting sounded absolutely batshit from what I've read about it. Can you even begin to imagine what it must be like for the likes of Rubio, Hegseth, whoever.... when they have absolutely no idea what he is going to come out with next. To be on edge like that is hilarious!

He joked that he is not YET a target for the International Criminal Court - thanks for the great idea Trumpy!!

@RedTagAlan thank you for dissecting the dementia diatribe.

If you're not too squeamish, there was a MP reference on our news the other day: "I'm pretty confident this is outside my chest wall. 'Tis but a flesh wound."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/montana-man-hiking-impaled-trekking-pole-9.7290288

All the accused should sue for wrongful arrest or something. It's the US, their attorneys can find a way.

Infantino has admitted failure in his bid to deliver dosh to Trump's camp
Fifa president admits defeat on plan to sell World Cup — and now faces fight for his future after resignation of senior adviser and accusations of ‘deception’ by chief operating officer

Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place,” Infantino said in a statement.
“Our purpose has always been — and will always be — to unite and improve. As a result, this proposal will not proceed.
“Moving forward, my intent is to bring all interested parties back together in the coming days and weeks in the spirit of shared interest in our game, and with the objective to continue growing football everywhere, and particularly in those countries that mostly need our support.”
Europe’s seismic decision on Thursday to boycott Fifa tournaments was the beginning of the end. Infantino tried to see that off, insisting in the early hours of Friday that the vote on selling a stake of Fifa tournaments to private investors would go ahead.
The Times

I know someone has mentioned this but how embarrassing for the Trump administration when Mr Orange insisted time and time again that he had footage of the 350 foot slash by vandals.
Even awful Jeanime Pirro has had to eat her words big time.

Those accused need a big apology preferably in person from Trump.himself who called all these people vandals and scum

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/31/doj-reflecting-pool-damage-botched-installation-not-vandalism-01021291

Let me guess. All the new marble in the WH isn't really marble shocker?

We have a corker of a Trumpianisms festival today. Because Trump did a Camp David Cabinet meet... and his remarks are here. A full and entire 57 minutes and 1 second worth of transcript. And near every paragraph has something that could be the downfall of any normal mere mortal politician.

Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting at Camp David - July 31, 2026 — Trump Archive (trump-archive.com)

Waaaayyyy too much for a post. So I am gonna cherry pick some out :-)

"DONALD TRUMP 00:00:00-00:00:22 (22 SEC)
You all set? Thank you very much. This is something very unique."

Sigh... Donald... go look up unique in your MAGA dictionary. It is an absolute adjective. It is binary in fact. Something is unique, or it's not. Next best bit :

"DONALD TRUMP 00:56:59-00:57:00 (1 SEC)
Thank you.
AIDE 00:57:00-00:57:01 (1 SEC)
Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys."

Ha ha. Honestly, there is just so much in here.

" It's Camp David, and this room is a very, very special room. I don't believe the press has ever come anywhere near it, but we are the party of transparency and we believe in transparency."

I checked. And I found photos of Biden in it. Yes, the press have been in it.

"And again, this is a cabinet meeting. It's open. We have done a lot of open cabinet meetings and I feel it works out very well."

They turn out as well as can be expected from you anyway.

"Everybody can ask certain questions. We'll let you talk about certain things. "

Can we have a list of what we are allowed to talk about?

"I'll go one after another. Yeah, there's a couple of stiffs, but that's OK."

You will go one after another ? And you got stiffs in there ? Oh hello Mitch.

"We're building more factories and plants in this country than we've ever built before."

It's infested with them so it is.

"And we're going to be, at some point, we'll be leaving this position, and we're going to leave this country..."

What......

".... in very, very good shape, better shape than it's ever been."

Ha. I was almost tempted to do a dishonest cherry pick. But nice to hear him say he will leave, even if he uses the Royal "we".

"The last administration created the worst inflation in 48 years, the most dangerous and insecure border in history, and exploding trade deficits like we have never seen before, rampant crime, men in women sports, transgender mutilization of your children and chaos and bedlam all over the world."

Biden and his chaos and bedlam eh. Tut-tut. But check out the very next words he says. No editing, this is Gods honest what he said immediately after the above.

"Other than that, they did quite a good job. "

I expect the good bits he done are all those bits you have claimed as yours. Same as Arthur claimed the Roman roads as his. Or somebody probably did. Bloody Romans. What have they ever .....

"And for the last 15 months, the report just came out again, we've had no people coming in through our southern border, zero. And it's almost hard to say because you'd say, is that even possible?"

I would say zero is impossible yes. Unless you are throwing imports and exports over your wall. And the world did just see the world cup. where people did need to cross the border.

"Today, I just want to mention that we heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I think -- I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. "

There is that "they". Donald, when people say "they", what they usually mean is you. You are POTUS Donald. YOU. It is YOU who is THEY.

"They like to say, oh, it's Iran. Iran should be so lucky. "

I should be so lucky
lucky, lucky, lucky
I should be so lucky in love

"Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

I should coco.

"This month it was announced that inflation is dropping at the fastest rate in more than six years. Walmart, Sam's Club, Giant Eagle and others are slashing prices by hundreds of grocery stores."

Grocery stores are currency now ? How much for a dozen eggs ? Two Walmarts and a WH Smith ?

"The stock market has set 73 all-time record highs since the election. That means all-time record highs 73 days out of a very short period of time."

Thank you for the clarification. But you need to clarify what your clarification means.

"And the typical 401(k) is up by more than $30,000. And when you think of that, if you add another $1,000 to it, it will be -- we set the record in the last administration, a record still standing. "

Yes Donald, dazzle us with your arithmetic, if we add $1000 to $30000 we get... oh, you gave up.

Honestly. I challenge anyone to find a single sentence that is both true and makes sense. This post got 4 minutes in.

Here is a really strange one. A Trump proclamation about.... QUARTZ SURFACE PRODUCTS.

What on earth. Why is POTUS doing this. And well, a bit of reading up on it, and it turns out the US folk dealing with this stuff want controls on imports. Protectionism. Fair enough. But why POTUS I wondered.

Ahh. Engineered rock. And guess who is likely the biggest buyer of decorative engineered rock in the US these days ? He wants his stuff cheap, so give the companies that deal with it what they want.

To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition from Imports of Quartz Surface Products – The White House

I saw something that Trumps lawyers in Florida are now trying to get the financial loss claim against the BBC dropped/changed. They want to keep the damage to reputation though.

There is some legal thing where they need to ask the judge to change the original papers that they filed. And this of course is because the Judge said Trump Inc need to hand over all financial records to the BBC.

To me this just screams "top down system". Trump makes a demand and everyone needs to follow no matter what. He knew about disclosure, his lawyers knew about it... almost everyone knows, but the dictator demanded it be done anyway.