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

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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

Fairly certain attacking a civilian vessel (whether or not it’s carrying drugs) is a war crime…

Rainbow Warrior ?

Worth keeping your ears open for congressperson Massie of Kentucky

Not if the people are citizens of, as Trump calls them, “shithole countries”. I’m pretty sure that Trump and Pete Hegseth DGAF.

I’m me might also think if you were serious about rape gangs you would turn up to the debate on it in parliament and not be in the US. Or any member of your party might turn up.

Can you get a Nobel peace prize if you commit a war crime?

Well his orangeness is looking in fairly good health in his Oval Office appearance today.

just catching up with the survivors’ press conference, on MSNBC. Sorry if I’ve missed the chat about this; it is so powerful, they are so powerful. And astonishing to see MTG up there with them!

I’m watching on PBS. Is Fox carrying it? Are the NYT and WP reporting on it?

I'm so glad the survivors are getting to speak for themselves, their own words in their own voices.

I haven't watched it yet but did a double take when I saw MTG mentioned

MTG is one of the 4 republicans who have calling for the files to be released. Pretty sure this is why she keeps having massive spats with Laura Loomer.

LMFAO. Think Nige might be regretting going to the USA.

Jamie Raskin showing every UK journalist how to do their job.

The bruised hand is back

It was looking an odd colour in the Oval Office yesterday. I was trying to work out whether it was my iPad/the video quality or his hand.

It's very good that it's a bipartisan effort (Massie and Khanna).

If Marjorie Taylor Greene does any good on this, then I'll be glad. Even a narcissistic grifter can do good work sometimes.

MTG being such a shameless liar, and getting caught in it so many times, does make me slightly concerned she may introduce credibility issues.

But it is not her testimony, but rather the survivors' full testimony that matters, so I hope that won't become a problem.

It hard not to feel as if the Trump spell is fading for MTG.

I do wonder if perhaps sometimes women are easier to admit they've been conned sometimes than men ?

She actually did really well and I agreed with everything she said. (I’m shaken to my core now! 😳)

MTG absolutely nailed her speech I thought.

Massie seemed to think it was interesting that the three Republican supporters apart from him were all women. I don’t think that’s surprising at all.

Will be interesting to see where the survivors creating their own list goes. I’d imagine there’s some very nervous people about right now I’d bet.

Lovely to see that great patriot, Nigel Farage, grabbing the mike to grandstand in front of Congress. Lies and distortion, Nige. Some might call that traitorous.dont trip over that flag on the way out you shameful grifting charlatan. I wonder who paid you to be wheeled out to spout such guff?

I don't have the skills, but a montage of today's military drills (don't support the regimes, but the military is an awesome giant theatre, fabulous actors, definitely well drilled for the performance), intercut with Trumps birthday parade would be fabulous fun.

Newsom taking action. Wonder if there will be an East Coast Health Alliance any time soon?
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/

If the US is going to split, it would be amusing if the current federal state shrinks to just the red MAGA states, and the richer blue states become the new "US" ....

That said, Trumps nixing mail in votes could be the death of the GOP.

Times are still interesting.

The health alliance news immediately made me think of pp about a democracy lasting 200 years and wondering if this is the start of the end of the USA as we know it.

Historians always push things back. Did WW2 start in 1939, 1938, 1935 ?

Maybe 2000 ? When the judicial system overruled the political system ? That set a precedent.

On a different note, I was a flight recently and got chatting to someone who was at college with KKKaroline Leavitt. Said that she was one of the "mean girls". Very competitive and ruthlessly ambitious, even then. She took over a prestigious project someone else had started, then claimed sole responsibility for it.

I wasn't even aware of the Trump rumours before!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/karoline-leavitt-can-t-escape-rumors-about-her-love-life/ar-AA1LOVLO