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

And not reading between the lines, Putin is ordering Trump around like a little dog on a lead.

A deeper look at the Musk and Trump falling out over The beautifil bill. As always ... follow the tax credits money!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/elon-musk-breaks-trump-agenda-rcna210746

Today, the Trump admin:

• Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries
• Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
• Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/senate-mutiny-trump/

Remind me again why the colonials rebelled ? What were they throwing off ?

How can the US president have more power than the King of Britain ?

A busy, busy day at the airport

Who did I look for first in that picture-the worm!🤣

The Emperor has spoken...
Football players allowed in.
(I'm still hoping the World Cup players refuse to play in the US stadiums and will only go to Canada and Mexico)

...some of the travel ban exemptions:

• Green card holders: People with green cards — individuals who have a pathway to U.S. citizenship — are exempted from the ban. When a travel ban was introduced by Mr. Trump during his first term in 2017, chaos and confusion ensued at airports. The Department of Homeland Security had to put out a statement clarifying that green card holders could enter the country. This time, the administration is making that exemption clear in the order itself.
• Dual citizens: People who are American citizens but also hold citizenship with a banned country are exempt under the order.
• Those seeking visas through connections to U.S. family members: Immigrants from the banned countries who seek visas through connections to their spouses, children, or parents who are American citizens will still be able to apply for them.
• Certain athletes: Athletes and coaches traveling to the United States to play in major sports events, along with their families, will still be allowed into the country. The United States is one of the hosts of the World Cup in 2026, and Los Angeles is the site of the Summer Olympics in 2028. This exception will allow soccer players from targeted countries, like Iran, to enter the United States for the World Cup.
• Refugees granted asylum: Those who have been admitted as refugees or were granted asylum are exempted under the order.
• Afghans who helped the U.S.: The order exempts Afghans who seek to enter the U.S. under a special visa program for those helped the U.S. government during the two decades of war after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
• Iranians fleeing religious persecution: Iranians who are escaping the country because they belong to a religious minority, like Christianity, are also exempted.

Musk hating the budget bill? He's freaking out about losing his tax credits.

No hurricane predictions? That's fine, unless Mar A Lardo or one of the Trump kids' places in Palm Beach (or wherever) takes a bad hit, then heads will roll.

The stewpot of wars 'over there'? Gee, Fuckwit, where's the 'I'll end this in 30 days' you promised us? Asshole.

As Phil Collins said: "Another day for you and me in paradise"

There’s a paywall there. I’ve tried to sign up and subscribe for free, but the site won’t let me. Could someone who is able to read the article kindly cut and paste it, or send a functioning link, please? Thank you so much!
ETA: that’s about the Alternet article @SerendipityJane linked to above (meant to quote it but didn’t!).

https://archive.ph/RZDj4

Thank you so much, @DuncinToffee.

For articles behind a paywall.

Click on the link to the article.
Copy the web address.
Go to archive.ph and paste the web address into the search box. If it's already been archived, it will come up in the results.

Tip
Safari is not allowing me to access archive.ph, so I open another browser (Firefox) for it.

Thank you, @logicisall, I was wondering how to do that!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/05/europe-nato-security-spending-eu-friedrich-merz-donald-trump-live-news-updates

Merz and Trump meet.
Words without meaning from Trump unless he gives a timeline of actions to either stop Russia or give more practical help to Ukraine.

He is waffling about the autopen again

If Russia were going to punish Ukraine they would have by now.

Losing 33% of your strategic bombers, plus the bits we don't know about can have that effect on your ability to respond quickly.

Notice how the mainstream narrative has avoided the obvious takeaways from the attacks. Presumably they consider them so obvious as to not need highlighting ? It's not like they are allowing Trump to distract the news cycle is it ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covfefe

Trouble in paradise…

When thieves fall out,.

I found myself idly wondering today, if Musk had the power to snap his fingers and make Twitter go dark until he snaps them again. And what would happen if he, and Zuckerberg did that in concert ?

Oh, this is going to get very, very funny 🤓

Isn’t Trump also pissed off because not only did DOGE not actually save money it’s ended up costing them loads more?

Musk: 'Without me, Trump would have lost the election'
In a series of replies on X, Elon Musk is ramping up his attacks against Donald Trump, saying:
Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”
He went on to say:
Such ingratitude.
Musk’s comments come after Trump told reporters that he is “very disappointed” in the billionaire tech executive and that he had “helped Elon out a lot”.
The growing divide between the two men come after Musk’s public disapproval of Trump’s tax and spending bill, which Musk called a “disgusting abomination”.

Elon says the quiet part out loud.

Shh shh Elon. We're supposed to be talking about how the Dems lost the election and should spend the next 10 years beating themselves up at doing A- thru-Z wrong, remember.

We're not supposed to notice that the Republicans won the election in the completely predictable way that a party with massive control of the media messaging usually does.

I mean it's not a slam-dunk.

But as soon as I heard the owner of Xwitter had gone all in for the Republicans the way he did - rampant misinformation included - I thought unless something really unexpected happened it was likely the Republicans would take it.

Media control just washes away the sins of the convicted felon, sex offender, lifelong grifter, who can't read briefings or string a sentence together.