Does Trump just say whatever comes into his head?

He's not rabidly passionate about his country. He's rabidly passionate about himself. Quite clearly.

Agreed.

Mind you, given that he's loaded the Supreme Court with his minions, I imagine they'll do everything possible to avoid ruling against him.

Out of all his many faults, the way he's undermined democracy - in various ways - is unforgiveable, imo.

Ffs. We all came from the sea originally!

I think he just says whatever comes into his head and leaves his minions to clarify it afterwards. I follow him on twitter and some of his posts are either sensible or completely bonkers. However he is making a difference in the USA and I wish Starmer was a bit more like him

Exactly this 😂

re Ukraine/ Gaza- Ukrainians weren’t fleeing in terror (well, I’m sure they were but you know what I mean) it’s a rule of warfare that civilians are to leave countries under attack. The Ukrainian government exited them to the borders and actively supported them leaving. The are the very definition of refugees- Of course the idea is when the war is over the return immediately

the only government gazans have wanted the population to stay as human shields so they simply never had the opportunity to leave at first strike.

Hasn't he got rid off watchdogs as well? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Yup.

American democracy may already been on it's deathbed. We wait and see

Where do most Israelis come from?

He is the absolute worst of humanity. A total narcissist without a shred of empathy.

I can't watch him. The minute he come on, I change the channel. I'm actually offended that he is given any airtime at all with his complete nonsensical babble.

Yes. The real test of whether democracy will hold will be when one of these cases goes up to the Supreme Court and they rule against him. They have no enforcement mechanism, only moral authority. If he and his administration accept their ruling, there is still some tiny speck of semblance of checks and balances left. If they don't, it's over.

It amazes me that people think Trump is passionate about his country. He inspired an attack against the Capitol for goodness sake, and let it unfold for a good couple of hours before telling his supporters to stand down.

He is passionate about his own self interest self-preservation. I've never seen a politician who cares so little about their country.

His idea of moving Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan is quite hypocritical considering how much he hates immigrants in USA. Yes, I realise there is a difference with Gaza being so decimated but I think it's a bit rich of him to suggest it.

And let's face it, the majority of Americans are descended from immigrants somewhere along the line. Trump's grandparents were born in Germany, but obviously he doesn't see the parallels in him wanting to deport 'foreigners'.

Trump goes off script all the time who would have written about injecting themselves with bleach or my personal favourite celebrating US and Italy’s relationship going back thousands of years to the Roman Empire 😆

this is partly what many of his voters like he speaks from the heart he isn’t a professional politician

that he comes out with dumb nonsense seems irrelevant it’s like watching a car crash

and to think we used to cringe and laugh at Bushisms

He gives a massive shit about what people think.

Literally immediately jumps to threatening deportation or jail for people who disagree with him. This is not a robust individual who tolerates criticism well.

Well, at least if the aliens land in America (as we know from films they always do) and say “take me to your leader”, the poor fuckers will be ready to go back home in no time. Invasion cancelled.

Geez I'd forgotten about the dancing. I don't think there's any other country in the world where a candidate for presidency could cease answering policy questions and instead spend an hour dancing badly to shit songs and still have a chance at being elected.

He can say and do what he likes. He spent one rally dancing to a playlist. He made up stuff about pets being eaten and promised a load of stuff that isn't deliverable. His voters don't seem to care.

"Is our children learning?" and "I know the human being and the fish can co-exist peacefully" are particular favourites.

It's all word salad isnt it🤷🏼‍♀

In a nutshell, yes he does.

The frightening thing is that sometimes he says things that are what people want to hear but are afraid to express it themselves like the issues around borders and migrants. Uncontrollable immigration IS a bad thing but his solutions are so crazy and drastic. And he appeals to what a large majority of people care about most like the money in their pockets . And his ability to ride roughshod over any discussion or debate when he decides to say or do anything is incredible. No idea how he gets away with it .

"Why don't the Israelis take them into Israel?"

Eh what. Because they don't want to of course. They are fighting each other

That would be like saying "why don't Russia take in Ukranian refugees".

Israel are never going to take in Palestinian refugees, when Israel are attacking palestine.

Other surrounding countries should offer to take in Palestinian refugees.

And again this would be an option for those Palestinian refugees who want it.

No one would be forced to leave If they don't want to.

His speech reminds me of a 5 year old’s stream of consciousness. “I flew over some of those beautiful windmills, they’re falling down by the way. Half of them weren’t spinning and the ones that were, were going so slow”

”I think Greenland will be worked out with us. I think we’re going to have it.

״I’m going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR”

Although Boris Johnson unscripted and burbling on about Peppa Pig World and brandishing a packet of kippers etc, wasn’t much less insane.

I just can't believe he's teetotal. I remembered during his first term thinking, when I'd hear about his tweets in the middle of the night, that he must be absolutely pissed out of his head. I was astonished to find that he didn't drink at all. I thought it was the only excuse!

Oh bullshit. If their safety is such a concern then why don't the Israelis take them into Israel?
Every Palestinian who leaves Gaza/Israel knows they will never go back. They'd be losing their homeland.
Maybe Trump should offer them asylum in the US, that might tempt a few.