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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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Abhannmor · 23/09/2025 19:32

MotherofPearl · 23/09/2025 19:18

I’m amazed by all the posters who say how much safer they feel in the US compared to the UK. Really?! Gun crime and mass shootings mean that it is objectively much less safe than the UK. Living in the UK I am very happy to be safe in the knowledge that it’s vanishingly unlikely that my children will be shot to death at school, say.

Totally 💯. I've been all over the USA. Pick any Smallville type town any state , I guarantee it'll be more dangerous than London. The stats prove it. Sadiq Khan isn't running around the rural US murdering school kids.

I recently visited the poor benighted UK. Berkshire, Oxford etc. Went for a few jars. Didn't have to check with the local sharia court. DT has full blown psychosis.

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itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:30

BeardofHagrid · 23/09/2025 19:23

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

Who’s that aimed at?
I don’t remember Biden getting up at the UN to declare climate change a ‘con’, refute the use of green energy, lecture other countries, make shit up about people he didn’t like ( Sadiq Khan for example), boast about his own ( entire made up achievements) and generally behave like an absolute arse. If he had, I’d be right here calling him a twat too… if he did, then my apologies for not paying more attention.

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TooBigForMyBoots · 23/09/2025 19:28

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 17:13

It’s getting to the point where he might just be the biggest threat to the safety of the rest of the world, not Russia or China or anyone else

Putin owns Trump and Trump is destroying America. Something Russia couldn't do by itself.

Im not too worried about Reform, Trump will make the RW unelectable in western democracies for at least a generation.

KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:27

Hereforthecommentz · 23/09/2025 19:19

Terrible but that's not a trump thing either. The opioid crisis wasn't under his watch. RFK is trying to sort the pharma industry out, it won't work though too much money involved. Very sad state of affairs.

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

KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:27

BeardofHagrid · 23/09/2025 19:23

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

Oh yeah, because Joe Biden really didn’t have any people criticising him, though? If you’d like to go ahead and list the things you could criticise, we could compare him to Trump if you like.

KermitFeet · 23/09/2025 19:25

skippy67 · 23/09/2025 17:17

29% disagree🤣🤣

To be fair, I’d say at least three in ten people are usually twats.

sleepwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 19:25

cobrakaieaglefang · 23/09/2025 18:31

My colleague has been elated today. He thinks the orange chump is the best thing ever. Showed me a video saying that the American govt have admitted to mass geoengineering and chemtrails. On GB news apparently. The paracetamol thing was another 'gotcha' moment on top of vaccines being the cause of everything from autism to every cancer going. He's vehemently anti Muslim, so the sharia law stuff also featured. Today has been wearing!

This is really shocking
You don't want to believe it happens but.....

BeardofHagrid · 23/09/2025 19:23

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

Crikeyalmighty · 23/09/2025 19:23

I’ve been to US many many times for work and leisure and away from the sanitised well off areas I honestly think it’s incredibly backward , mysoginistic and eye poppingly grim- I’m not saying the UK isn’t grim in some areas too, but talk about pot calling kettle black - Michael Moore wrote a great book years ago about the sheer 3rd world poverty in vast parts of the states, pilots on food stamps, 82 year old guys bent double manning car parks or gas stations , living in cars and he wasn’t much wrong

sleepwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 19:21

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:19

Or the Russians?

Same thing....

sleepwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 19:20

Echobelly · 23/09/2025 19:15

He's just so embarrassing - all the incoherent stuff he came out with yesterday with the nonsense about Tylenol and autism.

And telling the UN that 'you're countries are going to hell and I'm really good at this stuff' re immigration.

But at this rate we're heading for something just as embarrassing - even if Reform don't win the next elections, we'll have a tonne more Reform MPs and a lot of those are going to be people whose sole news source is X. Literally people who will believe that kids are getting weekly transgender lessons or something and that Muslim shopkeepers are refusing to sell poppies, or whatever rage slop Elon Musk is pushing that week.

All these people seem to have all the wrong answers to all the wrong problems.

Yep!

Hereforthecommentz · 23/09/2025 19:19

itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:04

I have also returned from the US, frequent traveller there for work, have been for 20 years, and the levels of poverty and drug addiction there at the moment are absolutely awful. People lying barely conscious on the streets,
zombified on Tranq… it’s never been this bad in all the years I’ve been there.

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Terrible but that's not a trump thing either. The opioid crisis wasn't under his watch. RFK is trying to sort the pharma industry out, it won't work though too much money involved. Very sad state of affairs.

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itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:19

Or the Russians?

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sleepwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 19:18

skippy67 · 23/09/2025 17:17

29% disagree🤣🤣

14% now...still too high
But Nigel might have his bots on here

MotherofPearl · 23/09/2025 19:18

I’m amazed by all the posters who say how much safer they feel in the US compared to the UK. Really?! Gun crime and mass shootings mean that it is objectively much less safe than the UK. Living in the UK I am very happy to be safe in the knowledge that it’s vanishingly unlikely that my children will be shot to death at school, say.

IstillloveKingThistle · 23/09/2025 19:18

RosenWilloughby · 23/09/2025 17:55

Are you happy with the current state of the UK?

Not one bit. And no one else I know in RL is either 🤷‍♀️

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itsAforapple · 23/09/2025 19:17

It’s a shame the Tangerine Man can’t see the link between guns and mass shootings as clearly as he can between autism and over the counter painkillers…

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Terrribletwos · 23/09/2025 19:17

Fullfatandfortyplus · 23/09/2025 19:09

Where did they move from? We spent 6 weeks driving round America this summer and didn’t see anything of the sort. Everyone was happy and loving life. We also felt completely safe in every area we visited. Safer than London that’s for sure.

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Yes. I would like to know too! The US is a vast country with many differing ideologies and incomes.

heartsinvisiblefury · 23/09/2025 19:16

King Twat if ever there was one.

Hereforthecommentz · 23/09/2025 19:16

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 23/09/2025 17:50

Him banging on how London has changed..he wasn't saying this the other week when he was a guest of King Charles.
Yes the UK has issues like any other Nation.
At least we don't have an estimated 393,000,000 guns kicking about and all that entails.. School Shootings on a weekly basis and that before we get into his latest bit of lunacy.The paracetamol guff, Then the Christian funda mentalist's (deliberate split of the word)
America has God on its side and Trump is the conduit .

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.

Echobelly · 23/09/2025 19:15

He's just so embarrassing - all the incoherent stuff he came out with yesterday with the nonsense about Tylenol and autism.

And telling the UN that 'you're countries are going to hell and I'm really good at this stuff' re immigration.

But at this rate we're heading for something just as embarrassing - even if Reform don't win the next elections, we'll have a tonne more Reform MPs and a lot of those are going to be people whose sole news source is X. Literally people who will believe that kids are getting weekly transgender lessons or something and that Muslim shopkeepers are refusing to sell poppies, or whatever rage slop Elon Musk is pushing that week.

All these people seem to have all the wrong answers to all the wrong problems.

Crikeyalmighty · 23/09/2025 19:14

I’ve not used the word for a long time since becoming a softie southerner - he’s an absolute wazzock! I’m not even sure he actually believes the shite he’s spouting or if he is just playing to the kind of voter he has who believes this stuff - a bit like Farage drinks wine

catmothertes1 · 23/09/2025 19:12

What is his obsession with the London Mayor? He seems to mention him in every speech at any occasion. I bet Sadiq Khan never thought his name would be mentioned at the UN. You'd be bemused if you were him!

Fullfatandfortyplus · 23/09/2025 19:09

Meadowfinch · 23/09/2025 17:31

Yes, a complete creep.

My niece who has teenage daughters has just moved home to the UK. The US is barely a 1st world country any more. The levels of ignorance and deprivation are appalling.

Where did they move from? We spent 6 weeks driving round America this summer and didn’t see anything of the sort. Everyone was happy and loving life. We also felt completely safe in every area we visited. Safer than London that’s for sure.

Meadowfinch · 23/09/2025 19:08

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.

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All I can say @Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav is you either have poor eyesight or you are careful to remain in wealthy enclaves and only see what suits your narrative.

At least in the UK, young women (and others) have access to comprehensive healthcare.