Are We Feeling Liberated Yet? - Trump thread #141

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King Donald has bigly new tariffs, First Lady Elmo turns out to be ballot box poison and 'Pick Me Girl' Vance is a meanie to the EU.

(But at least the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands are wearing suits)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5297058-trumpmusk-the-doge-and-pony-show-continues-trump-thread-140

Just been called a far left conspiracy theorist on another thread 😂 because I dared suggest Trump and his friends might be benefiting financially by the chaos that the dear leader has created.

I might have just replied to that

And now, I actually have to get some work done and leave the musings on Devious Don to others 🙁

Got distracted along the way

https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3lma5phks722u

Again, I'm not sure if this has already been posted here, but I've just seen this, which purports to be from the White House.
https://x.com/essenviews/status/1909024656088297587?s=46&t=Y1kdDey21EfQZuJIHsBw-w

If that is legit, it is beyond embarrassing and pathetic. Especially when they are deporting people who have a legal right to be in the US ... an administrative error.

Must be photoshop. No trace of it on their account - and not the sort of stuff they post.

Trump's latest whilst on AF1

"Have you talked to any tech leaders over the weekend about tariffs?"

Trump -. "I've talked to the biggest in the world. I talked to the biggest of them all, many of them. You know what they said? We don't blame you."

Who did you talk to?

Trump - "I don't want to say."

Its real. It's on their account

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1908679430546866475

sheeiittt

I was did not look at replies

It honestly beggars belief!

The images of that poor man shipped off to be tortured in El Salvador are completely heartbreaking.

About that Kevin Hassett post:-

Blame? Blame? Of course 'they' don't blame Bigly as he has done nothing wrong. If there's any fault to be found than that fault belongs with someone else. Ain't that so Bigly ? As always.

Breaking news: he's now threatening China with 50% tariffs after they announced their 34% retaliatory tariffs. 🙄

Is that an additional 50% on top of what he’s already imposed?

This is what I can find @Igotjelly

"Let's hope we don't lose another engine ... we could be here all night".

The punchline (sorry AI enthusiasts, your LLM won't get that) underscores the grasp of arithmetic at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Hoping the attached picture arrives

Copy & paste from BBC News app in case

Trump threatens China with further tariffs
published at 16:33
16:33
BREAKING
US President Donald Trump says he will impose additional tariffs on China, from Tuesday, if Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US.
The additional tariffs on Beijing would be of 50%, Trump says.
As a reminder, China announced on Friday that it would be imposing such tariffs on Washington after the White House said that from 9 April it'd put 34% levies on all goods from Beijing.

So in addition. We’re going to get into really daft 500% tariff territory aren’t we 🙄

If there is a split it might be between the disillusioned Trumpers (like here https://www.betrayedbytrump.com/, who are snowflake they need a safe space from ppl telling them "I told you so") and the MAGA faithful

And the text with it on X is quite foul in its gloating.

I am reading some of the stories on there. I don't doubt they have to be anonymous because it's just awful, they believed him.

From a veteran

I didn’t sign up for this. I wanted reform, not cruelty. Strength, not delusion. I’ve been a lifelong republican, and I know I’m not the only one starting to feel this way. We need to seriously ask ourselves: is this what we voted for, or just what we’ve been sold? It is hard to not feel conned. And I’m angrier than I’ve been in as long as I can remember.

It caused quite the wobble.

It’s all totally ridiculous, but I remain of the position that he’ll get bored and back down soon and there will be a ‘pause’ on tariffs.

most things he threatens don’t actually either start, or last for very long if they do happen, see: build a wall, ban TikTok, stop the war in 24 hours, Trump Gaza, make Canada the 51st state, buy Greenland, and so on…