Still dancing the Tariff Tango, Vlad and Bibi still playing him like a fiddle and Epstein's list must be written in invisible ink - Trump thread #146

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Awa' a bile yer heid, ya greet orange jobbie.

(Virtual Placard for his upcoming visit to Scotland - others welcome)

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

Trump has sacked the non partisan commissioner of the Bureau of Labour Statistics after an unfavourable July job report

Why does "Donald" put Kamala in quotes?

To be fair, “Donald” puts “TRUMP” in quotes. Could it possibly be because he is an illiterate, ill-educated, extraordinarily stupid man, or is that too obvious?

OK, what odds are we putting on Trump doing something...anything to divert attention from Epstein?

1. Invading Greenland
2. Punching King Charles
3. Divorcing Melania
4. Nuking Moscow

Feel free to add your options.

I seem to remember reading in Matt Parkers book about maths mistakes where he discusses a country that fired an economist because they didn't like the job numbers.

Job numbers are hard to estimate - and come with a wide margin of error

What is it that Medvedev actually said?

The escalation from Trump comes amid a spiralling war of words with the former Russian president over Trump’s efforts to get Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
Trump yesterday called Medvedev a “failed former president”, writing on Truth Social that he should “watch his words” and is “entering very dangerous territory”.
Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!
Medvedev, who was prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020 and is a very vocal supporter of its invasion of Ukraine, has ridiculed Trump’s ultimatum to the Kremlin to reach a peace deal. He wrote on X earlier this week:
Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10 … He should remember 2 things:
1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran.
2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.
Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!
In another post on X, Medvedev,* the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, called US senator Lindsey Graham* “gramps”, after he told him to “get to the peace table”.
It’s not for you or Trump to dictate when to ‘get at the peace table’. Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved. Work on America first, gramps!
The jabs continued on Telegram, where Medvedev threatened Trump with a cold war-era doomsday weapon known as the “Dead Hand” – a Russian nuclear system designed to automatically launch a retaliatory strike.
If a few words from a former Russian president can cause such a nervous reaction from the supposedly powerful President of the United States, then clearly Russia is right about everything and will continue its own way.
And as for the ‘dead economies’ of India and Russia and ‘stepping into dangerous territory’ – well, let him recall his favorite movies about the ‘walking dead,’ as well as how dangerous the supposedly non-existent ‘Dead Hand’ can be.

Bloody hell.

Pondering Trump's mental decline

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/opinion-trump-mental-decline-undeniable-150000172.html

A precursor to the bigly ballroom.

Rose Garden now looks a lot like a parking lot. (Jackie O must be spinning)

https://www.aol.com/see-every-era-white-house-203242858.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS91cmw_cT1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy5hb2wuY29tJTJGc2VlLWV2ZXJ5LWVyYS13aGl0ZS1ob3VzZS0yMDMyNDI4NTguaHRtbCZzYT1VJnNxaT0yJnZlZD0yYWhVS0V3aW95T3ltei1xT0F4VmZUMEVBSGJ4cUVwOFEwUEFES0FCNkJBZ2VFQUUmdXNnPUFPdlZhdzBkd3NXSUU5OU9hM1NhMjRJS0dBeHE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALkjZrR5DgeAkB9O5YH-R4fVpkeP2HlXWsigP_BgeFb42RfF7rPlVOuaEGTpw85aNgTW7ZSwwjGWLvJzrnNLZgydSoa6tRmF56jEFvLld97xK4VFFzsIItgX6KxfQ541W9YGxEPbFQKgwKeJBTC53u8ICSGGKjGJvIrB6IHmJdqX

You do realise that he's going to name the Bigly Ballbagroom after himself?
The Donald J Trump Ballroom.
Just so everyone remembers him for ever.🙄

Well there is precedent for naming rooms in White House after colours - I don’t think they have an orange room……

O please call it The Great Trump Room. It can become a public toilet when he's finally evacuated. Thankfully his conviction of his own immortality indicates he's not yet dreamed up plans for the Bigly Mausoleum next door to it. Aside from that, I've just seen a Daily Telegraph headline announcing more people watch GB News than BBC News. I'm not paying to read the article but Bloody Hell!

I am not sure I believe everything the daily telegraph says.

Ask for the rose garden it is criminal. Melania's touch. Bearing in mind she lives in New York most of the time hopefully she'll keep her grubby hands off of anything else

I feel for the gardeners. I've moved house over the years and left behind 3 well loved, thoughtfully planted gardens, each of which is now car parking. I recall reading that king-in-waiting David Windsor demanded one of his gardeners cut the carefully nurtured peach blossom in the hothouse as Mrs Simpson had asked for it. Philistines the lot of them. No, I no longer assume the Telegraph is reporting rather than Trumpeting, it's no longer a serious newspaper.

What newspapers do you all read? I’m signed up to Guardian and Telegraph for balance of opinions (I love the Travel section of Telegraph) but even the titles of articles I skim past in the main paper section of the TT make my blood boil. Disappointed with Guardian not reporting on the nurse SP tribunal lately. Not sure what to read anymore.

Caesar wrote about himself in the third person. Seems to be a thing great men of history do.

I think it was that paper that had on the front page two people in a bath with face masks on depicting Virginia Guiffre (RIP) and Prince Andrew. At that point it lost all its credibility for me.

Concreting over the rose garden is just awful. It's not as if it's someone who struggles to get the mower out every week. like us

What nurse SP tribunal is this? Is this another one of those trans situations? It's a topic we stay away from on these threads.

@pointythings yes it is

yes of course, i don’t intend to introduce any new topic to the thread, just following on from comments in the disappointment from pp’s about the telegraph

I think the problem most of us have with the Telegraph is that they are wholesale Trump/Reform in their politics these days - there's no rationality left, just a lot of hatemongering. Their articles about immigration are unbearable.

My only thing with the Telegraph is that their Ukraine the Latest podcast continues to be top class journalism. I actually sometimes forget it’s the same outlet.

@pointythings i completely agree!

@Igotjelly yes! The travel section as well as the coverage of Ukraine war are top notch, their only redeeming features (and the odd article/ health section).

For anyone feeling a bit nervous about Trump’s nuclear rhetoric (no one here seems to be but there may be lurkers). I listened to the Global News Podcast this morning which featured an interview with James Acton, Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and his view is that it’s not a serious threat and it’s actually “a bit sad to be honest”.

Cold war kid here. Nothing is going to scare me.

But it is interesting: the lack of "Is WW3 about to start" threads that have appeared at other times on this august platform. Which rather lessens their credibility in the long run.

I did think there would be more WW3 threads!

I thought Trump making statements as he headed off for a weekend of golf somewhat took the sting out of its credibility…