Who are they kidding? It's Oil, Oil, Oil, baby - Trump Thread #152

[Spandauer]

Back on US soil, an American citizen in a peaceful neighbourhood is gunned down by masked agents sent there to make people afraid.

Despicable, wretched people lying, lying, lying - all day, every day, about everything.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5458156-war-crimes-and-peace-prizes-trump-thread-151?page=1

Rubio issued a statement welcoming the Chagos deal and commending them on their vision!
How can anyone put any faith in the US when they’re prepared to overturn agreements on the basis of dented egos? It’s madness.

If you look closely at that image with the flags on Canada and Greenland, they’re also on Venezuela and Cuba…

It's a tantrum, Starmer told him no on Greenland.

Yeah, it's a quiet morning so far...

Do you have a link to save me from scrolling through hours of SM posts?

Canada and Greenland are too cold for decent golf courses.
You'd keep loosing your balls in the snow.

Cuba could have some amazing links courses...⛳ y'know, if they tried.

Nah, I don't think Nigel Farage whispered. I think he probably took out a bull horn and yelled.

This has apparently been posted on “Truth” Social this morning 🤬

Publishing the texts with Macron is such a shitty thing to do so 100% a Trump thing to do. I’m not saying he’s a Russian asset but as they say if he was I don’t think he’d be doing anything different 😡

Say what you want about the man, he keeps himself busy 😂

Just think what a force he could be if he wasn't such a dick

And exactly 12 months since the bigly beautiful 2nd inauguration. It feels like a fecking lifetime. 😞

I hope everyone speaks in French or German in front of him at Davos so he won't have a clue what they're saying.

It really is utterly exhausting.

I should be embarrassed that this just sent me down the rabbit hole of googling their heights. IRL Marco Rubio (Lil Marco) is 5'9", JD Vance is (allegedly) 6'2", although I suspect the weight of his evilness shrinks him. I like how they're the same height here and Rump is, what, 6'7" or so?

And why are they all manspreading? Jock itch?

I did exactly the same height googling.
Note that Rubio and Vance are both portrayed in the "slightly leaning forward" stance that is the usual Trump posture

Got a Danish guy working on the house for the next couple of weeks. His theory is that Trump is trying to manoeuvre Europeans to pay for the US base there. He might be clinging to that for fear of being called up though.

Sorry I didn't save it. It was a video by MeidasTouch that came up on my newsfeed. They have loads and I don't know which one I watched.

Nothing. Remember: he can shoot someone on 5th Avenue in NYC and nobody will say a damn thing.

I don't think anyone knows for sure what it is, but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate exactly how dangerous it could be.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/middleeast/trump-board-of-peace-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.YsEI.C62ehUyM8Vtj&smid=url-share

That ship sliaed long ago.

Trump is Augustus.

Welcome to the American empire.

May wee mon petit fromage. 😂

Thank you for that link to the NY Times piece, @walllaw :

$1 Billion in Cash Buys a Permanent Seat on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but its charter does not mention the Palestinian enclave, suggesting a possibly broader mandate.
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And while the board was conceived as part of Mr. Trump’s plan to oversee Gaza, there is no mention of Gaza in the charter. That omission added to speculation that the group may have a broader mandate to cover other conflicts and could even be aimed at creating a U.S.-dominated alternative to the United Nations Security Council.
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Now that's exactly what I'd expect the Trump administration to be doing.

The "Board of Peace" is of course a transnational organisation, which the 2025 National Security Strategy repeatedly fulminated against. Except of course for the telling last phrase in this paragraph from the Strategy. Hindering the sovereign rights of nations is AOK as long as it furthers American interests.

We stand for the sovereign rights of nations, against the sovereignty-sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational organizations, and for reforming those institutions so that they assist rather than hinder individual sovereignty and further American interests. (2025 National Security Strategy, p9)

"Board of Peace" is an anagram of "League of Nations".

Light relief: "A League of Notions" by Al Stewart.

Saw this and had a slight chuckle.

If you don’t laugh you’ll cry, right?