The grown-ups have left the building - Trump thread #136

[Spandauer]

As we descend into 4 years of madness...

(thanks @Jaichangecentfoisdenom and* *@AcrossthePond55 for the suggestions)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5200273-hands-across-the-water-trump-thread-135

WTAF

Markwayne Mullin: "Senator Kaine, or I guess I better use the senator from Virginia, starts bringing up the fact that 'what if you showed up drunk to your job?'
How many senators have shown up drunk to vote at night? ... how many senators have gotten a divorce for cheating?"

Markwayne Mullin says he'd be in prison if his wife didn't love him and says she's had to forgive him more than once.
He then asks Hegseth to detail a reason he loves his wife. Mullin has to remind him to mention his kids

Wallaw I agree. I'm gobsmacked with it. What an unsavoury candidate.

Tammy Duckworth nailed it...
^Look, the secretary of defense is required to make quick decisions every single day that well with high-level information that’s being provided for them. A secretary of defense has to have breadth and depth of knowledge. Right now, I am concerned that you have neither.^

Not watching the hearing. I think I'd end up throwing a shoe through the screen and I don't want to have to replace it because of the GOP. But it sounds as if it's Kavanaugh all over again. If not literally, then in spirit(s).

Also not watching the Hegseth farce.

However:
Expect Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., to be abnormally cold and windy.
^^

President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration is less than a week away, and early forecasts indicate it could be the coldest since President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 when temperatures hovered in the upper 20s.


Occurring near the coldest time of the year in the District, inauguration weather is seldom ideal for spending a long time outdoors. Numerous past inaugurations have featured foul weather from bitter cold to snow to driving rain.
The thousands of attendees for Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, set for noon on Monday, will not only have to brave cold temperatures but also a biting wind that could gust to near 30 mph. Wind chills may hover in the teens. There’s a chance it could be the windiest inauguration since President Ronald Reagan’s in 1985, when gusts reached 35 mph.

(Temps described in F not C btw)

Kinda hope that wind lifts up Trump's hair mid-ceremony.

1,393 days to go!

There’s definitely something perverse about holding the inauguration outside in the middle of January! Trying to prove how masculine they all are 🙄

Didn’t one President die after getting sick after his inauguration took place on a very cold day? <crosses fingers for a repetition of history>

Edited to add I was half right! William Henry Harrison got caught in a rainstorm without a hat and coat and developed pneumonia, dying 11 days later. He only lasted 13 months in office.

Trump has the full house by a whisker till the mid terms
after that, who knows

I wonder how many Republicans got a twinge in the trouser region every time the word 'lethality' was said yesterday? Maybe 'killing people' doesn't have the same effect.

He is using his mugshot as an official portrait

And the first husband's Starship exploded

ETA - my feed is showing some of this text in bold - sorry I can't seem to get it to change!

Biden is busy making more executive actions in his final hours in office that will hopefully be difficult for Dumpy to undo. Some of the actions:

He’s designated national monuments in California and removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. He’s blocked a Japanese company’s takeover of U.S. Steel and extended temporary protected status to nearly 1 million immigrants. He’s commuted the sentences of nearly everyone who was on federal death row, and he’s granted to his son Hunter a sweeping pardon. --- He has been weighing action aimed at advancing the Equal Rights Amendment, which would prohibit discrimination based on sex, according to people familiar with the discussions, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal plans. And Biden has been considering issuing preemptive pardons for figures who might face the hostility of the incoming Trump administration.

In another little-noticed example, the incoming Trump administration will find what may be an unwelcome surprise Tuesday, when a new rule becomes legally effective, giving a 12 percent pay raise to about 14,500 blue-collar employees who serve at three Army depots and some Veterans Affairs facilities. The raise, authorized by the Office of Personnel Management in October, will appear as a final rule in the Federal Register on Jan. 21, meaning the incoming Trump administration will have to pay for it, at a cost of $150 million a year.
The move comes as Trump and his allies have vowed to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget and shrink the workforce. Biden officials overcame long-standing opposition from officials in Democratic and Republican administrations going back to the Obama era to raising the salaries of these workers, because of the cost.

Are we entering a period of getting what we needed, rather than what we wanted ?

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/this-not-donald-trump-israel-expected-3485189

Maybe… Elon Musk is secretly trying to save the world, and his behaviour has all been part of a long game to instruct the president?! And he has started with pushing for ceasefire

Trump wants 'results' that only reflect well on himself.
Also he really, really, really wants a Nobel Peace Prize... aka Obama's one up on him and he just can't deal with it.

I am not that naive.

However, the law of unintended consequences cuts both ways.

Personally, does it matter why Trump does what he does if it results in good ? Because if it does then what are we really fighting for ?

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I want rain not cold

Ice pellets would be good

Rain is worse for that hair thing on top of his bloated pumpkin head.

In case people weren't depressed enough

https://bsky.app/profile/jeffjarvis.bsky.social/post/3lfuk5zfky22b

cold rain would make me happy

1,390 days to go

I’m hoping for cold, overcast and a torrential hailstorm just as Trump stands up to take the oath, preferably with a few claps of thunder thrown in. Though no doubt the evangelical’s will say that’s Him Upstairs showing his approval 🙄

Deluded.

I can't help but recall what Arthur Wellesley said when he saw a list of the generals he had that were to fight Napoleon ....

Every time I have the misfortune to see a Trump tweet I have to double check it's his account, not a parody and not 'fake news' 🙈 - I'm not sure why my brain can't accept that yes he actually is that strange and deluded, beyond my own low opinion, and will always limbo under my lowest expectations.

I'm not sure why my brain can't accept that yes he actually is that strange and deluded, beyond my own low opinion, and will always limbo under my lowest expectations.

It's his most impressive talent. His search for the bottom will never end

Good news (I think)

Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law. What happens next is unclear
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5264378/biden-era-national-archivist-constitution