Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147

[Spandauer]

Desperately seeking that Peace Prize.
May have to settle for the Hero of the Russian Federation award. Bigly sad.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5372669-still-dancing-the-tariff-tango-vlad-and-bibi-still-playing-him-like-a-fiddle-and-epsteins-list-must-be-written-in-invisible-ink-trump-thread-146

I can't remember the film, but the quote

"He's been dying of the same heart attack for 20 years" rings a bell.

History is full of Kings who wouldn't die ....

Did he clap when the train stopped ?

I'm miffed that mine hasn't arrived, yet.

If he's there when I get there, I'm packing a case for the other place.

I am, however, expecting there to be a very long queue of MAGA in front of me, Bigly at the front, bawling and shouting about having bought their tickets for the Upstairs penthouse in advance but that idiot St Peter says they're not on the list so they're not coming in. So I may reach my rightful place Up There, who knows? 😇

Iirc Spike Mollligan said same, or similar, of Peter Sellers.

Nothing is going to come of this Alaska/EU leaders spectacle is it? It was all just a golden razzle dazzle show where bigly was the star. Like a 2 day birthday party for a dog.

Lavrov (who I find super scary!) seems quite happy that the Russians aren’t going to meet Zelenskyy as they quite like things just the way they are.

I agree. Fat Orange One loved sitting round the table with EU Leaders praising him just to get a point across.

I am sure Lavrov has been a James Bond villain at some point, he looks like one!

Possibly. Sellers had multiple cardiac arrest in the 1960s courtesy of doing poppers and trying to shag 21 year old Britt Eklund

Yes, Britt and the amyl nitrate. Very bad choices for someone who already had a history of cardiac disease.

Thing is Lavrov used to be a very serious international politician, he’s become a caricature of himself in recent years.

@TokyoSushi

Agreed.

Russia/Putin are seem to be quite happy with the status quo - it means they carry on killing Ukrainian civilians on pretty much a nightly basis.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/russia-hits-ukraine-massive-drone-missile-attack-kyiv/story?id=124837267

Another Executive Order to ban mail in ballots and voting machines incoming.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-just-crossed-a-line-no-president-ever-dared-touch/

And is anyone surprised? When Bigly gets round to announcing the union of USA and Russia, Biglier Than Any Enpire the World Has Ever Seen and Better because we'll have 2 Emperors ( Emperor? That's bigger than a King, right?) Emperor Bigly Trump and Emperor Poo Tin. Maybe USA will then recognise what it's let though the door. I believe the Hope diamond - Big, the Biggest! - is in the Smithsonian collection? Bet there's a destination planned for that old, boring thing.

Trump won't be satisfied with turning the USA into a version of Russia, he'll keep going until the USA resembles North Korea with him in his golden palace and everyone else begging for crumbs.

We need some amusement... this really did make me laugh

Keep going, Newsom!

😅 handfuls of laugh emojis for GCN 😂

I can actually see this working more than anything the Democrats haven't tried so far .....

He's a genius! Go GCN!

So, Trump’s basically disenfranchised his armed forces personnel who are deployed overseas in a single stroke? How does that work?

Not quite sure why here is a question there. What in Trumps behaviour thus far has shown the slightest iota that he thinks about them, let alone cares about them.

Remember the army could well end up having to intervene in his pursuit to become King. He probably doesn't want them too organised and capable.

His assertion that Putin told him only the USA has mail-in ballots would be funny if it were not so pathetic. I mean, Russia has them!

Mail in voting is not under EO power.

Why do the media report his dumb stuff as if its true ?

Personally I think it's worth keeping an eye on the hyperbole as it has a terrible tendency to become reality.

Trump has established that the powers of the president are above the constitution. After he. he's elected, so any opposition is a direct affront to THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

Eventually, SCOTUS, who greased the slipway to launch this titanic take on the powers of POTUS will find themselves unable to prevent it sailing without them. And that will be their wicked day.

The US self consciously and totally without pause for contemplation (I guess the sugar rush of winning the freedom to dodge taxes was too heady) modelled themselves after the Roman republic. (And this in itself is probably a good reason to be glad the UK removed classical learning as a pre requisite for power).

The problem is it seems no one got past chapter 1 and read how the Roman Republic fell. Slowly at first, and then all at once.

There is only one question really. If Trump is Caesar, who is Augustus ?

J D isn’t going to be happy when he sees this 😂 https://bsky.app/profile/cborkowski.bsky.social/post/3lwvagt7vlc2j