Idiotam habemus - Trumpum the Bigly XXX - Trump thread #143

[Spandauer]

No grey smoke necessary.

First 100 days have come and gone. Vance has killed the Pope, Musk is melting away and Trump's tariffs are on a slow boat to China.

Coming soon... Bigly's Birthday Parade. What could possibly go wrong?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5315681-has-the-us-crossed-the-rubicon-trump-thread-142

Yes, Happy Birthday @CaveMum ! Hope you've had a wonderful day.

Happy Birthday! BBQ and chocolate cake sounds a perfect plan!

Hope that you had a great day, @CaveMum !

Adding that if you remove your shoes while eating, all calories will exit your body via your feet.

Right, on to Trump. Surely he cannot accept that 'gift' from Qatar.

This plane is gold throughout apparently! He loves gold doesn’t he? Straight out of the dictator playbook (think Saddam Hussein) Having seen photos of the interior of Trump Tower penthouse with gold walls, elevators and so on, it makes Liberace’s interior decorating taste seem modest.
I just can’t get Goldmember from Austin Powers out of my head:
’I LOVE GOLDDD!’

Who blinked?

China and the US have agreed a 90-day pause to the deepening trade war that has threatened to upend the global economy, with reciprocal tariffs to be lowered by 115%.

Is now the time to mention that the building I work in is leased by a Qatari Sheikh….?

Oh it was absolutely TOO™️ who blinked. They’ll try to spin it as otherwise but the Chinese just don’t work like that.

The potential supply chain issues are already imbedded though, unless they’ve just been mooring ships offshore and waiting for this all to blow over before unloading.

And thank you for the birthday wishes 😁

That is madly Catholic.

Happy Birthday, Cavemum.

It’s the most blatant bribe! Bit its gold and shiny, and we know Donald likes shiny.

It reminds me of a brothel on the inside 🤢

So the fuckwit is now planning on messing around with pricing of pharmaceticals around the globe. Boasting about how he's going to drive up the prices for other countries.

marcusoscarsson.se/donald-trump-vander-sig-till-hela-varlden-det-ar-pinsamt/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKOq6JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBGYlpybkpBemFOTGI4ckZ4AR5koFU0j3FJLvc6Gde0RECBJG0tbg8vRI4VJBQxs5neSDxfwr1j-KldAlaa7w_aem_qH_TS_BefKU-D6LAm8lU8Q

What the hell is wrong with the man? He really thinks there is a position as King of the World and that he is a shoo-in for the job.

(Belated Happy Birthday, @CaveMum.)

Belated birthday wishes @CaveMum

Lots at Trump being so poor, he can't afford his own gold interior plane, so has to con one out of the Saudis, and then steal it from American taxpayers.

Is this the opposite of the Saudi Prince who wants to give you money, or are they expanding the ploy?

Sorry I missed the 🎂 @CaveMum - I thought qatar got mostly bored of your line of work 🤨

As for the gold plane, 🍊 will he bulk order viagra to make full use of the facilities? 🤢 or will that just make the ailerons a bit stiff?

There is a never-ending Netflix series waiting to be made about the voyages of the superfreighter "Enterprise" and her five year mission that started out as a one week run from China to the US only to be stymied by fresh tariffs just as they sight land.

Tailor made for a rotating cast, and an opportunity for writers to crowbar contemporary issues into storylines with the subtlety and nuance that US TV dramas are famed for.

I mean we've all been waiting for a follow up to "Triangle" haven't we ? I include the link because if non UK readers wouldn't believe me over it, I really can't see any US readers daring to.

Can you all say 'emoluments clause'? I knew you could!

Apparently Scrotus can't.

Personally I’m not a fan of this 2025 West wing reboot. It’s a little unrealistic and seems to have jumped the shark a while ago.

Remind me who undid Biden’s work to reduce the price of pharmaceuticals in the US.

Honestly, I think the best thing the world could do is largely ignore him. Small article and then just carry on making trade deals and alliances and pay him no attention. I swear he says and does half the things he does just for the attention.

@CaveMum I think the pressing question is, do you get to keep the building after you retire? Will it be donated to the CaveMum library for your personal use? I'd push for those terms.

We can. We got a lot of practice last time round.

@JoshLymanSwagger theres definitely a downturn in interest from the Qatari’s - said landlord has decamped to the Bahamas due to the tax regime in the U.K.

So what's going to happen to the massive trade deficits that the USA has with China?

What's the actual outcome going to be and how is that good for the USA?

First group of white South Africans lands in US under Trump refugee plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crljn5046epo

That's 49 people given refugee status in the US, as far as I can tell merely for being Afrikaners. Presumably at Musk's behest.

Tricky one for Bannon. A ready supply of people who grew up under white supremacy, taught that they were the master race; but on the other hand people who are very definitely foreigners and can bond with Musk in a language they share – more than just literally – behind Bannon's back.

Excuse me everyone, there's nowhere else to scream this. Fing refugee apartheid S Africans ffs. Perhaps they'll exhume Eugene Terre Blanche and bring him over for a proper hero's burial. Can 4 years of this insanity last?