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Trump is an absolute twat.

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itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 17:10

YANBU - he’s an absolute knob. The state the USA is in right now and he’s trying to lecture the rest of the world!

YABU - he’s not a twat.

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Hereforthecommentz · 23/09/2025 19:53

KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:27

How do you think it’s going to go when vaccine rates drop?

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I think vaccines dropping will be down to how poorly managed covid vaccines went. Most people didn't think twice about giving thier kids vaccines before covid. Now people are mistrustful of a pharma industry who are there solely to make profits and their governments who made terrible decisions (especially Canada) I am not anti vax but I know many people now that question things and it's nothing to do with trump.

I don't much like Trump he's like a spoilt child but I also think it's stupid to say he's the worst president ever. Joe Biden withdrew hastily from Afghanistan leaving a terrible mess which has immediately filled the void with more terrorists. Obama evicted WAY more people from the country than Trump ever will. Watch Farenheight 11/9 you see Obama knew damn well that water in Flint was poisonous and making thousands of people sick yet he lied to their faces and did nothing to fix the problem. It seems they don't want honest and kind politicians in the US, they kill those ones off (JFK).
In the UK we have many problems but our political system isn't as corrupt as the US because they have so many lobbyists.

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:52

giveitback · 23/09/2025 19:34

Are you in the US OP? Or have you visited recently? I wouldn’t believe everything the UK media is telling you.

I’m in the US and although there’s a split, plenty of sane, very educated people here really like him and think he’s doing great things for the country. Unless you’re here, I’m not sure why his existence bothers you so much?

Listen. If orangina focussed on sorting the US out no-one would be ‘bothered’ with his existence- but he isn’t, is he? He’s on the world stage berating every other western nation and is clearly unhinged. Whilst in charge of one of the world’s largest collection of nuclear weapons.
THATs why we’re ‘bothered’.

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TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 23/09/2025 19:49

KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:37

I’ve just left the US. California. And I can tell you that 80% of the people around me thought he was a massive dick.

I’ve noticed that rhetoric in the UK about ‘you can’t believe what you read in the UK media about Trump, all Americans are happy with him… It’s repetitive and definitely seems to come from the people who are doing ‘their own research’ and I can guess pretty much 99% of the rest of the canned bollocks they’re coming out with.

You don’t need to believe what you read in the UK media, you can just listen to the shit that comes out of his mouth to get everything you need to know.

And you need to be extremely naïve to not think that what he’s doing doesn’t impact the whole world.

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Agreed if it only affected the USA that would be bad enough especially for women and girls.
As you say what he says and does has a global impact.

Ilovepastafortea · 23/09/2025 19:48

Well so far he is going to ..

Invade Canada
Sort the war in Ukraine out in 24 hours
Take charge of Gaza

that's off the top of my head - there are many more crazy things that come from him.

and now he's undoing all the work that the UK Govt have done with re-enforcing concerns over MMR saying he wants babies to have several sets of vaccinations with no medical evidence.

A dangerous narcissist nutter indeed.

Sarover · 23/09/2025 19:48

@Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav @Fullfatandfortyplus

You both may 'feel' safer in the US. I can't dispute how you feel. It's your truth.

How about actual, real facts and statistics though? It's a simple, indisputable fact that it is much more dangerous in NY than in London. Look it up. Crime of all kinds is simply higher in NY. You are much more likely to be a victim of crIme in NY than London. There's no point arguing otherwise.

I'm not making any kind of political point. I'm not a Labour (or Democrat) supporter, just talking about facts. London is safer than NY. Google the real facts. After that, ask yourself why you would post something made up about your feelings as if it were true.

Bloomsburygirl · 23/09/2025 19:48

@Catterbat brilliant!😂

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:47

It’s just such bullshit. The whole thing with Sadiq Khan is fucking bizarre.

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Zanatdy · 23/09/2025 19:47

Absolutely cannot stand the orange twerp, but the stuff he is coming out with re Autism and paracetamol is downright idiotic. The stuff he says about vaccines is downright dangerous. Say what you like about our PM’s, and we have had our share of bad one’s, but none would even dream of using their platform for pedalling this kind of false news, or criticising other countries or their leaders when their own country is in a mess. Who on earth votes for this fool? It baffles me, it really does.

As if mothers of autistic DC don’t already question themselves enough and wonder if there was anything they could have done differently without this absolute none-sense. Glad to hear NHS professionals are speaking out and reassuring mothers that they are NOT to blame.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 23/09/2025 19:43

It's all distraction. Thevmind literally boggles about the content of the File.

WeaselCheeks · 23/09/2025 19:43

It's depressing. Every time I think that Trump can't shock me with his incoherent, racist ramblings and obvious cognitive decline anymore, he somehow manages to make an even worse spectacle.l of himself in public.

"Why didn’t you apply this much scrutiny to Joe Biden?"

Because Biden, whilst obviously old and doddery, was never this batshit mental. Biden was never a legally adjudicated rapist, or accused of rape and domestic violence by his wife, or a convicted felon, or close personal friends with a known paedophile and sex trafficker, or bragged about how he likes to sexually assault women, or to prey on women and girls in changing rooms, or commented repeatedly on his daughter's sexual attractiveness, or hired multiple unqualified people into his administration with histories of sexual assault or domestic violence, or repeatedly called for the death penalty of innocent men because they were black, or claimed that a president wasn't American because he was black, or had to settle a court case due to racially discriminating against black renters, or claimed that bleach cures COVID, or that climate change is a hoax, or had an extensive history of telling provable lies.

Having a US president that's batshit mental is dangerous for the world. It's horrifying to see him dragging America backwards, and even more horrifying to see his efforts to drag the world down with him.

TanquerayTickles · 23/09/2025 19:41

He makes me want to peel my own skin off with cringe, he's a walking embarrassment to the American people. I never knew there were that many stupid people in the world.

PrincessOfPreschool · 23/09/2025 19:40

RosenWilloughby · 23/09/2025 17:55

Are you happy with the current state of the UK?

What's that got to do with the price of eggs?

Muffinmam · 23/09/2025 19:39

The issue is we can’t trust our own governments. He ran his entire campaign on the government is corrupt but you can trust them.

So right now I’ve no idea whether or not paracetamol causes autism because I don’t trust the government or the corporations. It’s possible paracetamol could influence the development of autism. It’s not like we can trust the researchers to tell the truth.

Johnson & Johnson knowingly sold asbestos riddled talcum powder for years then hid the report and continued selling their product for years even though there was a viable product replacement (cornstarch).

I took a lot of paracetamol during pregnancy and my child is severely autistic.

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:37

Anyway, my point stands. POTUS is in NO position to be lecturing anyone else in how to run a country when there so much in his to be dealt with.

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KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:37

giveitback · 23/09/2025 19:34

Are you in the US OP? Or have you visited recently? I wouldn’t believe everything the UK media is telling you.

I’m in the US and although there’s a split, plenty of sane, very educated people here really like him and think he’s doing great things for the country. Unless you’re here, I’m not sure why his existence bothers you so much?

I’ve just left the US. California. And I can tell you that 80% of the people around me thought he was a massive dick.

I’ve noticed that rhetoric in the UK about ‘you can’t believe what you read in the UK media about Trump, all Americans are happy with him… It’s repetitive and definitely seems to come from the people who are doing ‘their own research’ and I can guess pretty much 99% of the rest of the canned bollocks they’re coming out with.

You don’t need to believe what you read in the UK media, you can just listen to the shit that comes out of his mouth to get everything you need to know.

And you need to be extremely naïve to not think that what he’s doing doesn’t impact the whole world.

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:36

giveitback · 23/09/2025 19:34

Are you in the US OP? Or have you visited recently? I wouldn’t believe everything the UK media is telling you.

I’m in the US and although there’s a split, plenty of sane, very educated people here really like him and think he’s doing great things for the country. Unless you’re here, I’m not sure why his existence bothers you so much?

I have just come back from - LA, San Fran, San Diego. And a few weeks before that - Boston, NYC, NJ, Philly, Pittsburg, DC.
staying in ‘naice’ hotels but all central/downtown in those cities. DC, fine as always, but the others? People
are
struggling. Really struggling.

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PaisleyGilmourStreet · 23/09/2025 19:36

SmudgeButt · 23/09/2025 18:54

I used to work with an otherwise intelligent and lovely individual who told me with a completely straight face that it was a proven scientific fact that vaccines gave you the disease it was meant to prevent. She completely believed it. I tried at first to talk to her about this but was so convinced that it's true that there was no dissuading her.

I've also met a lot of intelligent well educated professionals who happen to be Americans. And many have said they don't understand the US electoral system and so don't vote. That's why people like Trump can get elected because others are happy to believe what they hear on their local bigoted radio station and line up like lambs to be slaughtered. And then wonder why things are all wonderful anymore.

Anymore? They're all shit. That's why politics is so utterly depressing. I'm 51, and I can't think of a single government that was effective at any point in my life. We're in a relatively new era now too, whereupon people vote against rather than for (which is how we ended up with Starmer).

Trump's ramblings are bizarre, given that there are plenty of actual facts he could've referenced that illustrate the mess Europe and the UK is in.

MrsSkylerWhite · 23/09/2025 19:35

You are correct.

WTF is he on?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 23/09/2025 19:35

LaurelBush · 23/09/2025 17:53

You can''t blame the guns on Trump. I don't recall any Democrat presidents getting rid of them either?

President Clinton's passing of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB)? It was not renewed after ten years as was intended because at that point George W Bush was president and reducing the number of military-grade (anti-human and useless for other purposes) guns in the hands of nutters didn't suit him, and it didn't get rid of all guns, but it definitely reduced that particular threat. Mass shootings went down during the ten years it was in force.

Crikeyalmighty · 23/09/2025 19:34

@Wonderpool personally if we didn’t need the US and have to cow tow to a fairly large extent, especially post Brexit -I would love Starmer and all the European leaders to actually say what they really think about the US and Trump - anyone would think it’s paradise.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 23/09/2025 19:34

Hereforthecommentz · 23/09/2025 19:16

The guns and the school shootings aren't a trump thing, that's been the case for donkeys years. Yes in other respects he's a knob. I would say though hes definitely not the worst president, Bush Jr took the US into Iraq war under false pretence and messed up the middle East. Trump as far as I'm aware has not started any wars so it's a bit insane to say he's the worst president and I'm not a fan.

The point I was making was America is awash with problems his outpourings about the UK aren't required or wanted.
He wasn't saying a thing when he was over as King Charles guest.
As it stands if rather live in the UK than the dystopian nightmare unfolding in America.
America has the make belief deity in the sky on their side and Trump.
What a combination.🤯

giveitback · 23/09/2025 19:34

Are you in the US OP? Or have you visited recently? I wouldn’t believe everything the UK media is telling you.

I’m in the US and although there’s a split, plenty of sane, very educated people here really like him and think he’s doing great things for the country. Unless you’re here, I’m not sure why his existence bothers you so much?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 23/09/2025 19:33

Frankly, Trump is giving all other absolute twats a bad name.

He opens his mouth and utter verbal diarrhoea pours out. I just hope we don’t end up with Farage (Trump-lite) here.

MrsIcandothis · 23/09/2025 19:33

Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 23/09/2025 18:46

What absolute rubbish i travel there every week for work! Nothing has changed at all! In fact i feel safer walking round New York using my phone for directions than i do in London.

New York? Are you sure? As in New York City?

Notagain75 · 23/09/2025 19:32

He is also very dangerous.
I think he is more of a threat to the World than China or Russia because he shoots his mouth off without thinking or probably even understanding what the implications of what he is saying

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