Every day waking up to yet another insane declaration from Trump. America is losing the respect of the world

I'm sure the usual fwits will be giggling about this on social media and denying it's a Nazi gesture.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac

Does anyone else feel as if we're living not just in the upside down, but the inside out?

Just watched a video which shows that musks economic drive has saved everyday Americans fighting to financially survive ... a whopping 13 cents per person...but .....trump is giving 4.5 trillion dollars tax cut to the super wealthy which is worth 13,000 dollars in tax to every American who pays tax.

Also watched James Carville educate Hannity on a few figures. It makes me sick watching musk the organ grinder with his monkey trump say he will stay to 'help' America so long as he is needed , except he didn't say he has been given a billion dollars in contracts for Tesla and Space x. Outta the kindness of his stone cold billion dollar heart.

Oh, I agree it's different in scale. But I think the thought process has to be similar. I mean, in the run up to Brexit, there was plenty of information readily available as to what the likely (negative) outcomes and effects were going to be and people chose to ignore them. I do think there is a segment in the US that actively likes some of the cruelty of Trump's policies, but outside of that group, I think a lot of people were able to engage in cognitive dissonance about the outcome.

The USAID thing, I think is a little off, though, as that's something that wasn't really foreseeable in the run up to the election. While Project 2025 did outline a plan for it and Marjorie Taylor Green bleated about it, most voters were either unaware of that, believed Trump when he said he had nothing to do with P25, or wouldn't have cared anyway (a lot of Americans are really not switched on to the importance of foreign aid).

Caveat: my sister is a doctor who has been working on a USAID project for the past 10 years and even they were surprised by what's happened, both the speed and the scale. It's devastating.

That’s perfection. 💕

We will never be Americans.

‘O Canada’ had the lyrics changed at the start of the 4Nations final from “in all of us command” to “that only us command” in response to Trump’s ascertaining that Canada will become the 51st US state!

Hockey has numerous brawls each game.

The booing though is new for Canada. We’re not usually so assertive.

We’re big ice hockey fans - currently in Boston for the 4Nations final. Perfect evening - Canada won!

I dong think its necessarily US feeling causing the brawl.

I used to be an ice hockey fan after discovering it in Canada. I watched quite a bit in the late 90s. Brawls between the teams were really, really common. One time players were even joining in from the benches and the ice cleaning machine had to be used afterwards to clean the blood off the ice !!!

I came to the conclusion that brawling and ice hockey go hand in hand in Canada 😂

I think that this differs in scale. Few people lost their jobs as a direct consequence of Brexit, whereas DOGE has been massacring hundreds of thousands of employees in a matter of weeks. For farmers in the UK there was around four years notice that things would be changing (even if they didn't specifically know what would replace the CAP). Farmers in the US on the other hand have been growing food for USAID only for the agency buying it to be shut down, and completing environmental projects only to have the grants they were expecting upon completion cut.

Nor for that matter has the UK seen a mass round-up of immigrants (legal or illegal, ICE don't care as they've got quotas to fill). European nationals already in the UK were offered settled status (though that hasn't been reciprocated everywhere) so no one's father has been arrested in a raid like in the US.

The personality cult is weird too. We haven't seen anything like that.

Let hope he goes to Mars sooner rather than later. Never to return.

I think that's a pretty universal phenomenon though. Like all the people here who voted for Brexit and then were shocked to discover they couldn't just up and retire to Spain. Or the ones who blame the after effects on the remainers.

Trump is Musks ventriloquist dummy. Musk has got 2 contracts, one for 400m dollars for Tesla and one for 300 million for spacex in the last 2 weeks. Magas think he is doing his cost cutting for the good of the people....when all musk wants to do is be a trillionaire and go to Mars.

I'm not on X but can anyone verify that Musk put up a post about billionaires being fed up of subsidising everyone else? Saw it on FB lol but these days nothing would surprise me 😂

They’ve gone up again - Americans are going to be coming over the border to buy Canadian eggs which are really cheap!

Has he reduced the price of eggs yet?

It's true that they aren't too bright:

"Yay, Trump is going to fire all the inefficient federal workers and cut funds to everything... Wait, what do you mean that I'm fired and my husband's farm subsidies have been cut? This must be a mistake, we voted for him three times, surely he doesn't mean to include us!"

They'll do anything but admit that they were wrong.

Quite from random Ukrainian on radio 'everyone in E Europe knows Trump is a Russian asset'. Nobody in US appears to be aware of this. This isn't going to end well and its not going to go Trump's way but its going to take a while to get there.

I mean, make no mistake, Russia is broke - no money and now it can't even boast the biggest population, something it always relied on. Bot farms have been a good investment for them though, got them Trump who might be their best hope of becoming a threat to Europe again.

I reckon Trump has a thing about getting pals with Russia because its the place that was America's boogeyman through his childhood and early adulthood and he thinks the world will see him as having 'tamed' Russia because he's such a great 'dealmaker'. Whereas of course, Russia has tamed him.

I don't believe he's been blackmailed, or cut some kind of deal to act for Russia. He just had no clue he's being played. Unfortunately, that's pretty dangerous for the world, especially Europe.

He's taken the Russian side & is increasingly acting like a dictator himself.

He’s an idiot. How are Ukraine supposed to hold fair elections in the middle of a war?
and as for dictators- Jesus Christ, Trump Sat there with Putin of all people and accused someone else of not holding fair elections???

Today’s insane declaration from Trump: Ukrainian President Zelensky is a dictator. Takes one to know one. Starmer has found some spine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrnjrjrr5o

Hard to feel sorry for them. They were fine about all the rest of it? So long as they got more money??

Fear not. Ships don't use the name of a body of water to navigate.

Inevitably, there are an awful lot of rather sad posts on social media from people who have lost their jobs having voted for Trump. They were all convinced that whoever he meant when he talked about getting rid of useless employees, it couldn't possibly be them.