The Orange Man and the State of his Union - Trump thread #139

[Spandauer]

Thanks to @JoshLymanSwagger for the thread title.

Trump, Vance and Musk are building a bigly bridge across the Bering Strait...
...and creating a gaping chasm in the Atlantic.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/chat/5275361-an-unholy-trinity-or-just-a-seedy-threesome-trump-musk-and-putin-trump-thread-138

Just seen that he's withdrawn funding for free school meals and funding for food banks. Apparently these payments do not align with his priorities.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usda-cancels-funding-food-banks-schools-trump-b2713125.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9TzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZmw3j7bVPAhT8e9130lFMTaH5ItFwy_jxqClpI-XPwGJsBHMa9SWI-qkQ_aem_rEa6y6Crs0VyS34LSTy5XQ

@MrTiddlesTheCat

Yes. And then there are the calming headlines about Tuberculosis raging unchecked in Kenya since USAID was shut down.

And then this

https://bsky.app/profile/eoinhiggins.bsky.social/post/3lk46k7yho22q

*Destruction of Federal records is a crime

"The start of Trump’s second term has delivered a stunning reversal for many of those billionaires sitting behind Trump in the Capitol Rotunda, with five having lost a combined $209 billion in wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/billionaires-at-trump-s-swearing-in-have-since-lost-200-billion

I can see Trump being overjoyed with that. He has certainly taught them the dangers of being lukewarm to his hasn't he ?

It's almost like Hitler invaded countries in a certain order to beat Goring at Scrabble.

US Intelligence sharing with Ukraine to be reinstated with immediate effect.

So the moral of this story (according to Musk) is that by hacking Twitter Ukraine got what they wanted ?

How smart is Musk ?

They should have known, trump makes it very plain he wants to be the biggest & best on all fronts, he will only ever try to crush others in order to put them beneath him.

Quite an interesting article on what has made Musk.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa

His father sounds awful. Fathering a child with his stepdaughter.

I saw a brief video clip of Musk’s father once. I don’t know when it was recorded but he was basically saying he never thought Elon would amount to anything. Pretty much made me conclude that (as with Trump) his whole persona can probably be boiled down to 2 words:

Daddy
Issues

There’s a school of thought that Vladimir Putin is the richest man in the world. Trump wants to be the richest man in the world and is drawn to wealth like a fly to shit, hence the cozying up to Putin.

Pa Musk is very fond of extolling the virtues if his son's sperm

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/errol-musk-on-having-child-with-elon-any-woman-with-slight-brain-would-be-mad-to-say-no-ashley-st-clair/articleshow/118807869.cms

Just send an parachute brigade there to show goodwill

I would love someone to ask him about Bud Lite and what he thought about the boycott of that.

And then ask him about Tesla.

And then ask him what the difference is?

Article in The Atlantic on the 1st death from Measles in Texas

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/?utm_source=msn

What happened in Seminole, though, was a grim reminder. The day after meeting Peter, I visited the vaccination clinic across the street from the hospital where he had first taken his daughter. I had planned to interview people who were there to get their shots, but no one showed. It occurred to me that I was now at some modest risk myself. Families from Peter’s church had cycled through the visitation service the day before, sharing air inside that stuffy room amid their grief. Like a lot of people born before 1989, I’d gotten only one measles shot as a kid, so out of an abundance of caution, I rolled up my sleeve and got a booster. Later that day, I met up with Zach Holbrooks for lunch and asked him how many other people had gotten shots that morning. It turned out to be just one, and that one was him.

The latest press conference is him selling tesla's with Leon.

He actually was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing,

I don't know if it's just the particular photo, but she actually looks AI generated

Yet more from the wrecking ball

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewfacciani.bsky.social/post/3lk4xxhk4u22y

And now they’re having to roll back 🤣

The civil servants putting these policies into practice must be feeling motion sickness with all the about turning!

On holiday in the Gambia I saw USAID funded HIV pregnancy clinics
with chains on the doors
I cannot unsee that

The juxtaposition between this and those morons using the White House as a car sales lot to massage poor Leon's shrinking billions is obscene. It's like watching the USA having a never ending hallucinogenic trip.

Gilead. Everyday the US starts to look more and more like Gilead

Looks like his own team are trying to stop him saying random shit on camera now 🤣🤣🤣

I'm thinking that the grown ups are trying to take back control of the toddler. So much damage has been done though.