Trump’s text message to the Norwegian PM

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“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."

This is why he’s justified in taking Greenland - apparently. How is this giant man-child in charge of the free world?

So is China. They could not get a better result if Trump was a senior member of the CPC. Greenland if of no interest to China at all.

A better President with way fewer powers. This means electing a better Congress. One with the balls to abolish gerrymandering and voter suppression. One that strives to improve the material conditions of ordinary Americans. They need to take the lanyards off and roll their sleeves up.

I'm sorry, but the only things that can currently stop him are Congress and the Supreme Court. Congress is controlled by his party and they're choosing not to. If their voters cared, they'd do an about face, but the fact is, they like it. And the SC has so far chosen not to and don't really have any mechanism to enforce their decisions anyway.

The rest of us are unwilling passengers on this runaway train. We can protest, campaign for better candidates, vote in every election from school boards to presidents, donate to candidates, but that's it. That's all the power we have. This is squarely on the elected Republicans and the people who voted for this and I no longer have any sympathy for any of them.

I don't care if the dems had put up a trans 3-legged goldendoodle, it was clear from the beginning it would have done a better job than this crew.

Agree. I have a good friend who lives and works in Washington DC with his family. He's distraught about it all. Not just angry, but utterly devastated and ashamed. He's a hair breadth from rioting. We are talking about late middle-aged professional with alot to lose if he does.

I remember when the last election was lost to Biden and he said 'If I lose this election you will never see me again'. And he lied. He didn't go anywhere.

It's because of the little known clause in the US constitution where if you assert more than 10 gazillion times that an election was rigged or stolen you get take-it-backsies on anything you said before, so it doesn't count as a lie. The founders thought of everything.

What rights do you think women were going to lose under Harris? Show me the policies.

I can tell you one thing. If you sat a group of 100 random American women in a room and asked how many have been personally negatively affected by a trans person and then you asked how many have been personally negatively affected by not being able to access and/or afford healthcare, I know which group would have more raised hands.

So it's all very well to be theoretical. But in real life, in the real world, more women and children are suffering under this administration than they would have under a Harris administration.

And that's without even looking outside the US at USAID...

And of course, the Founding Fathers never thought there would ever be a POTUS a million times better than all of them combined. stronger, faster, smarter. He can rebuild America. He has the technology.

I think that is why he sent out 60 invites at 1 billion a pop for his "Gaza team".

The 60 billion dollah man.

I believe his focus is on using the presidency to become one of the richest men on the planet. Musk is on his way to become the first trillionaire, and Trump doesn't want to be left behind. So grift, grift, and grift some more. He's already got all the oil money out of Venezuela going to his personal account in Qatar. Neither the USA nor Venezuela has seen a dime of it. He says he will "eventually" give it back.

What gets me is that I saw Nigel Farage being a Trump supporter club on his Facebook page and Farages supporters worshipping him and Trump but to say that these people are vehemently about "Great Britain" and "Sovereignty" etc, they seem to not realise that Trump is throwing his weight around towards countries that have US military bases in them, how long before he wants to take the UK and make it American! Look at the unhealthy interest Musk had in all our affairs when he was Trumps bestie! Trump may already have us in his crosshairs for future occupation!

I think it's Putin. Not joking.

It’s not Putin per se, it’s that the people currently in control of the US are of the same mindset about how the world should be run, so obviously use the same playbook.

What gets me is that so many US citizens from Hispanic communities voted for Trump. Of all people, surely someone whose family moved to the US from Latin America should understand only too well the harms that can be caused by dictatorial psychopaths being in charge of countries, as Latin America has had more than its fair share of them. Why on earth move to the US and then vote for the same shit there? Yes, of course mad dictators get things done, but it does not take a genius to understand they do not do what is good for the people, they only do what they think is good for them. Trump never even tried to hide his dictatorial ambitions.

Musk still has an unhealthy interest in our affairs - just uses Tiny Tom to get them out there now, and obviously X. I’m not sure what he wants from it - maybe just disruption.

Well, he never lies so we must believe him...

Could prominent republicans just end this by coming out and saying if Trump takes Greenland we'll give it back when elected?

Are ordinary Americans taking to the street over this though?
They seem very quiet to me, like they don't care.

TACO

Most mumsnetters will be nodding in agreement because they follow mainstream news. As much as Trump is an odious man, a terrible example of a statesman, the things that are happening in USA under his instruction is mind blowing. He is exposing massive (and I mean huge) corruption, in the billions upon billions. He’s getting criminals removed, he’s shut the border, Dr’s are praising him because instead of 10 deaths a day from Fentanyl overdoses, they are reduced to two a day.
Trump has been doing good things behind the scenes for 20/30 years, but
you won’t find any of this on the mainstream news.
also the Kennedy looking after health, is doing more than anyone to stop big pharma, and to stop food company’s from poisoning, and pushing UPF’s.
if you don’t believe this, a Google search should do it.

Just seen what he's said today. Oh surely he needs to go . He's not balanced. There must be mechanisms by which US system can get rid of him. You cant have a leader of the free world as wobbly as that. Surely !!

🤣The mafia killing off their opponents is not good for anyone. That’s all Don Trumpeoni is doing.

Nonsensical response..you can’t deny what I’ve written

Response from Jonas should’ve been “What are you, 7 🙄” and block

Putin is many things, but he's not a psychopath or a megalomaniac. He is basically doing no more than what most other Russian leaders have always done.

I beg to differ. Putin is definitely a psychopath. He’s not exactly the only leader in history to be a psychopath, within Russia or without.

Fair enough, I tend to avoid the news these days to be honest, it's better for my blood pressure when I keep away from it.