No more Musk, Melania MIA and TACOs for tea: The Idiocracy beds down - Trump thread #144

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Second '100 days' working out much like the first, but with a Vance-proof Pope, a bigly white elephant plane, a few more legal push backs and way more grifting.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5327971-idiotam-habemus-trumpum-the-bigly-xxx-trump-thread-143

Country Joe and the Fish earworm here c1967 or so "be the first one on your block . . . " etc

just seen this on bbc news

We’re going to run out of thread in a minute.

This is just extraordinary. Almost nothing is 'shocking' now but this pic is.

Eeeek. Commercial flight from Dubai spots Iranian missiles being launched

kafeneio.social/@foufoutos/114701114429093684

@Lalgarh if some of the posts on that account ⬆️ are accurate, things are much worse than we think.

https://bsky.app/profile/youranoncentral.bsky.social/post/3lruhewjcxk2y

This is mental. Hello another WTF day!🙄

40-odd posts to go before end of the thread. Title ideas? Are we going with gallows humour, resignation or rage?

I’ve played with ChatGPT which offered some suggestions around references to the “G6.5” 🤣

https://bsky.app/profile/jeremycliffe.bsky.social/post/3lrulqjaloc2n

Hell of a chart, this, from financialtimes.com
Spot the JCPOA.

Gallows humour gets my vote

Don't shoot me, I'm only the ICE man.

The way things are going in the ME, this thread will run out by lunchtime!
Tehran 'preparing attack on US bases'.- Telegraph

https://archive.ph/MyVUF

I wonder if they've got lorries with drones ?

I'm out and about today ...So here's a new thread which hopefully we won't need yet because someone will talk Trump down from the ledge.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5357151-trumplethinskin-wants-his-situation-room-photo-because-it-most-definitely-rained-on-his-parade-trump-thread-145

ICE agents raided Delta Downs racetrack in Louisiana yesterday “apprehending” multiple backstretch workers.

Reportedly they locked down all entrances/exits to the facility and used drones to sweep the area.

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/immigration-enforcement-descend-upon-delta-downs/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/trump-iran-israel-nuclear-talks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.G1FU.pqn9MDQ_jjWp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel

President Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel’s push for an assault on Iran’s nuclear program. With the war underway, his posture has gyrated as he weighs sending in the U.S. military.

Can we hire then to catch tax evaders ?

Just last week, Trump posted on his Truth Social media platform that the “very aggressive” raids were hurting farmers and hotels. Subsequent reports indicated that the administration had told ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants.
Reports on Monday, however, suggested that the administration had already reversed that order. (from link upthread)

Silly me, thinking that farms and hospitality were now exempt. Gotta hit those targets!
🙄

There is speculation online that some un-uniformed 'ICE agents' are bounty hunters or Blackwater employees. Why is this so believable?

It's not like you can buy an ice uniform from Amazon, cover your face or arrest someone without a warrant......

The wait for that Nobel peace prize goes on

India’s PM Narendra Modi denies Trump played a role in mediating the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, dismissing US efforts to de-escalate the conflict.

As noted before, India is very proud of it's military (costs enough).

Their narrative is that having a powerful military enabled them to deal with Pakistan by themselves.

UK readers who can remember the Falklands might like to imagine how they might have felt if - after Goose Green, and Port Stanley, and HMS Sheffield - Ronald Reagan had told the world it was down to him that Britain and Argentina settled things.

Dear me, my years of Trump watching cynicism is such I had automatically assumed this was so.

A wise man once said ...

Bring back that laughter reaction, please!