Trump+Musk: Folie à Deux - Trump thread #137

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The clock is already ticking and he's an old man. Mid-terms: November 3, 2026

Thanks to @AcrossThePond55 for the thread title.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5206120-the-grown-ups-have-left-the-building-trump-thread-136

This is quite scary - theoretical apparatus about tech dictatorship behind a figurehead president krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/p/episode-211-audio-gil-duran

This is scary too

Trump: "I'm gonna tell Elon very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's gonna find the same thing.
Then I'm gonna go to the military. Let's check the military. We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhriumclz225

He does realise, doesn't he (actually, no he probably doesn't) that little Elon tinkering with shutting down military spend is a most blatant security risk. Like actual foreign attacks.

I heard a noise just now at the Superb Owl * coverage, and couldn't tell if it was cheers or jeers, presumably at the sight of trump

' * If you know, you know

Commentators on ITV were very careful when mentioning the noise.

The pre game entertainment is everything that maga are opposed to

I'm not up on this Bowl stuff at all, @DuncinToffee, so I'm puzzled as to what you mean about the entertainment being everything MAGA is against, (and too lazy to google as I haven't had my covfefe yet)? I'd be grateful if you have the time to explain, and if not, I'll try and work it out for myself later on when I'm awake, though I try to avoid all US news at the moment, except my daily look on here!

I have watched footage of trumpy and melania walking across the pitch, her in a plasticy Mac thing.
The booing was really really loud

I was wondering this too, but I'm also not very clued up on superbowl stuff.

About the only thing I know about the SuperBowl thingy is that it's held in California (isn't it?), which as far as I understand, will be the first State to secede from Trump's America as soon as possible, so not likely to applaud the Ghastly Couple. ETA: They'll probably all be rounded up and banged up in prison shortly under Trump's new standards for treason (or lèse-majesté as he considers it).

I read the answer to this: the world's biggest and most popular artist Taylor Swift was there and she was booed.
The disliked, and distracted Trumpstet was there and he was cheered.

@Llttledrummergirl - you read that on Fox news's site, right?

It was held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Thank you, @Igotjelly. (Hangs head in shame at own ignorance).
ETA: Am I perhaps confusing Rose Bowl (definitely California, no?) and Super Bowl?

I don't think so, but they may have got it from there or another Trump propaganda site like x.

Yes think it’s held in Pasadena.

With it being in Louisiana, the music was in that style, little bit more flamboyant, jazz like and diverse. Bit too woke for the tangerine man I would imagine.

They even had a sign language interpreter..

I gave up after 15 minutes, American football is not for me

Nike upset the maga's with their advert featuring only women in sport

And this moment, an American flag built on the backs of Black people..

And mango mussolini's team lost!

Thank you, @DuncinToffee. Yet Louisana is a Red state. Hmm.

I meant New Orleans style rather than Louisiana.

Starmer was booed recently at a footie match. It was somehow muffled out. Bit childish I thought.

Trump’s ordered the treasury to stop making 1cent coins, apparently it’s wasteful to keep making them. No idea how change at the shops will work 🤨

We stopped making halfpenny decades ago. The 99c will go up to a dollar. Everything computerized now. I remember as a child when we went decimal our corner shop struggling.

He's just going to get rid of coins and only allow use of notes. Actually, how would that work as an economic thing?

Here we're losing banks and now ATMs. USA is behind us in that respect.

I wonder if it’s part of the move to digital currency (easier for the Govt to control).