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

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Spandauer · 15/08/2025 23:11

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

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 | Mumsnet

Awa' a bile yer heid, ya greet orange jobbie. (Virtual Placard for his upcoming visit to Scotland - others welcome) Previous thread: [[https://www.m...

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Igotjelly · 21/08/2025 16:39

I honestly can’t keep up.

Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 21/08/2025 17:14

It's so "hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country" that only the Thirteen Colonies have managed it.

Or maybe not. Maybe they invaded Great Britain after taking their airports.

boudicca · 21/08/2025 18:29

Igotjelly · 21/08/2025 16:39

I honestly can’t keep up.

Does this mean DJT will be giving Ukraine the means - and the support to fight back?

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LlttledrummergirI · 21/08/2025 18:58

He can fuck right off. Is he permanently drunk or high? The amount of shit that comes out of his mouth.

logicisall · 21/08/2025 20:36

While the world's eyes are on Ukraine and Gaza, this is what Trump is doing in the Venezuela/Caribbean region.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-destroyers-head-toward-waters-off-venezuela-as-trump-aims-to-pressure-drug-cartels/ar-AA1KOufS

As orange bigly also accuses Canada of allowing fentanyl into the US, are they next?
Isn't it handy that Venezuela has vast oil reserves? 🤔

MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-destroyers-head-toward-waters-off-venezuela-as-trump-aims-to-pressure-drug-cartels/ar-AA1KOufS

CaveMum · 21/08/2025 20:42

Well, I didn’t think he’d manage it but I haven’t seen anything about Epstein for at least a week.

Evenstar · 21/08/2025 21:14

🙄

Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147
Zonder · 21/08/2025 22:38

CaveMum · 21/08/2025 20:42

Well, I didn’t think he’d manage it but I haven’t seen anything about Epstein for at least a week.

It worked then.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 22/08/2025 02:08

Zonder · 21/08/2025 22:38

It worked then.

FAllOurLives.

CATomas · 22/08/2025 02:19

Trump wants to see a statue of him at the Kremlin. No, he wants a Trump hotel in Red Square.

logicisall · 22/08/2025 06:27

No words really...

logicisall · 22/08/2025 07:05

I had posted this as well, about Venezuela accusing now Trinidad and Tobago of being in bed with the CIA and Exxon Mobil.

Hope MN lets it through this time.

DuncinToffee · 22/08/2025 08:34

No images showing @logicisall

logicisall · 22/08/2025 09:01

Thanks @DuncinToffee

tl;dr
Trinidad and Tobago and ExxonMobil signed a $16B-$21B deal to search and drill for oil and gas in ultra-deep waters 150 miles off the east coast of Trinidad, next to Guyana's Stabroek block, part of which lies in waters disputed with Venezuela.

The US has sent 4,000 troops/marines and 3 guided missile destroyers plus other warships to protect Exxon's interests combat drug cartels in Venezuela.

#Drill baby Drill!

DuncinToffee · 22/08/2025 09:05

A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.

Spandauer · 22/08/2025 09:37

Ordered to be shut down not because it's an inhumane concentration camp detaining people without trial or convictions but because the judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building it in the Florida Everglades.

It will of course be appealed.

from NYT:
... ruling is preliminary, as the case will continue to be litigated. The state is expected to ask that the ruling be stayed, or kept from taking effect, as it pursues its appeal.

The Trump administration had argued that a review under the National Environmental Policy Act did not apply because while the center houses federal immigration detainees, it is run by the state. At the same time, the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that its authority to operate the detention center came from an agreement with the federal government delegating some immigration enforcement powers to Florida.

In her ruling, Judge Williams said federal immigration enforcement is the “key driver” of the detention center’s construction. Because it is subject to federal funding, standards and direction, it is also subject to federal environmental laws, she concluded.

In making that determination, the judge wrote, the court will “‘adhere to the time-tested adage: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it’s a duck.’”

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PickAChew · 22/08/2025 09:42

A useful technicality, I suppose.

LlttledrummergirI · 22/08/2025 10:05

They got Al Capone for tax evasion.

Sometimes you run with what you are given.

JoshLymanSwagger · 22/08/2025 10:38

LlttledrummergirI · 22/08/2025 10:05

They got Al Capone for tax evasion.

Sometimes you run with what you are given.

I don't suppose 🍊🌮🐓 might have...ya' know..? Been a bit "inventive" with some of his tax avoidance writeoffs?
dig, baby, dig 🤔🤞🙏🏻

Evenstar · 22/08/2025 11:31

Private Eye 😂

Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147
Serpentstooth · 22/08/2025 11:50

Yup. Another shocking surprise. Thank heavens for Hislop, still keeping it real.

SerendipityJane · 22/08/2025 12:18

Occupy Democrats

BREAKING: The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House — prompting White to unleash a scathing takedown for the ages.
MAGA should have just left well enough alone...
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
In truth, White is still enormously popular and successful, far more so than any of the actually washed up musicians and "celebrities" that
MAGA likes to trot out as Trump supporters.
“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.
The idea that agreeing with Trump's infamously tacky interior design sensibilities is a prerequisite for being a "real artist" is laughable. Donald Trump has always had awful taste in aesthetics.
Cheung's remarks led to White posting a lengthy screed on Instagram, in which he listed off Trump's staggering number of failures and scandals—
"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." White wrote.
"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," he continued."
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," White went on.
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."
"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves," he continued.
"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief," he concluded before signing his name.
In his Instagram post, White also shared a photo of Trump hawking his ugly golden sneakers, one of Trump selling MAGA merchandise at the White House, and memes about Trump scandals. He also wrote a caption—
"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III... 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.' - Theodore Roosevelt"
By just about any metric, this is one of most brutal, comprehensive takedowns of Donald Trump to date. Let's hope that the White House hits back again, so that Jack White has an excuse to tear into him even more.
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DuncinToffee · 22/08/2025 12:41

BREAKING NEWS: The FBI has descended upon the house of John Bolton, former national security advisor to Donald Trump who broke with Trump and has openly criticized him.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/developing-the-fbi-is-at-john-boltons

Serpentstooth · 22/08/2025 12:55

Thank you "jane*. I've never heard of Jack White but am now a fan. I suppose it would be gracious to also thank the White House for bringing to our attention this magnificent and precise description of the current mafia chiselers hanging out there with the Poltroon in Chief, Bigly. Nobel nomination for Jack White.

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