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Bored of Peace? Let's Mambo! - Trump Thread #158

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Spandauer · 21/03/2026 11:39

Cuba - the appetiser to Greenland?

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Bored of Peace? Let's Mambo! - Trump Thread #158
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JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:09

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 13:54

Trump's visit to UK is going ahead in April.....
Well, UK citizens are not going to be cheering....

He is in China today, I think.
I wonder if he is sensing how the world view of him has sank or still thinks we own him something because he is golden!

You've got it the wrong way around.

The UK Government is sending King Charles as some sort of honorific tribute/homage to the US to visit the 🍊🌮

Some time at the end of April.

I really do not wish ill health on His Majesty, but maybe a little cough, or a nasty rash on his hand @CaveMum 😉

DuncinToffee · 31/03/2026 14:10

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 13:54

Trump's visit to UK is going ahead in April.....
Well, UK citizens are not going to be cheering....

He is in China today, I think.
I wonder if he is sensing how the world view of him has sank or still thinks we own him something because he is golden!

You got it the wrong way round, Charles is visitng the US

logicisall · 31/03/2026 14:10

ColdOut2025 · 31/03/2026 13:18

Oil up,unsurprisingly , especially after trumps latest outburst. But how the hell have the markets not reacted yet?!

Markets got wise to Trump's manipulations, and have priced that in. Only something 'big' will change prices.

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SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 14:10

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 13:54

Trump's visit to UK is going ahead in April.....
Well, UK citizens are not going to be cheering....

He is in China today, I think.
I wonder if he is sensing how the world view of him has sank or still thinks we own him something because he is golden!

A friend in London saw some armed officers going down the manholes on teh mall.

They asked the officers if they were securing the route for Trumps visit.

They said no they were just sealing them in case it rains and his tan got into the watercourse.

I'm here all week.

JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:11

logicisall · 31/03/2026 14:10

Markets got wise to Trump's manipulations, and have priced that in. Only something 'big' will change prices.

A very large funeral in DC with a ma-hoo-sive party afterwards? 🙏🏻🤞🏻🥂🎉

Spandauer · 31/03/2026 14:12

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 13:54

Trump's visit to UK is going ahead in April.....
Well, UK citizens are not going to be cheering....

He is in China today, I think.
I wonder if he is sensing how the world view of him has sank or still thinks we own him something because he is golden!

Visit to China has been postponed until mid May I think. Trumpy not keen on leaving US soil at the mo'. Too many drones flying around.

K Charles is still going to D.C. at the end of April - State Banquet at WH and will also address Congress. Hope he remembers to say thank you and steers well clear of sitting down for a chat in Liberace's toilet that currently doubles as the Oval Office.

King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to US to go ahead in April www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd8nkezdyxo

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JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:15

Visit to China has been postponed until mid May I think. Trumpy not keen on leaving US soil at the mo'. Too many drones flying around.

Hang on, if the 🍊🌮 can't travel because he's frightened of a war he started...why should the King travel to the US? and will he have to hand over his cell/mobile phone

SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 14:20

JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:15

Visit to China has been postponed until mid May I think. Trumpy not keen on leaving US soil at the mo'. Too many drones flying around.

Hang on, if the 🍊🌮 can't travel because he's frightened of a war he started...why should the King travel to the US? and will he have to hand over his cell/mobile phone

Who remembers all the US action hero actors who chickened out of flying to the UK after 9/11 ? I definitely recall Bruce Willis being interviewed by video link, and the studio audience jeering.

Spandauer · 31/03/2026 14:23

My indignation is off the scale today.. 🤬

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mie6lcfobh2c

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JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:25

Maybe His Majesty could as Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to go...he could have a nice little chat and reminisce with those lovely Congresspersons about his friend Mr Epstein.

DuncinToffee · 31/03/2026 14:30

Poland has refused a US request to send a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East.

Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz: “Our Patriot batteries… are used to protect Polish skies and NATO’s eastern flank… we have no plans to relocate them anywhere.”

NFPorterkeeponkeepingonNsoul · 31/03/2026 14:38

Royal visit should be cancelled
The threats of tariffs amongst other things if Nations don't bend to the will of Trump and his band of head cases has went far enough.
Well done Poland.

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 14:42

Oh, Charles is going to US.
I panicked just thinking Trump was coming to UK!
And China visit is May indeed.

CaveMum · 31/03/2026 14:43

It feels like Europe is starting to put on its big girl pants and standing up to Trump. So far that’s Spain, Poland, France and Italy who have all said “No” to 🍊🌮 in the last few days.

logicisall · 31/03/2026 14:46

My idea for next thread title. Iran has been obliterated. Boom! Send help! Silence.

eta
That might be a haiku in the making.

SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 14:50

CaveMum · 31/03/2026 14:43

It feels like Europe is starting to put on its big girl pants and standing up to Trump. So far that’s Spain, Poland, France and Italy who have all said “No” to 🍊🌮 in the last few days.

I wonder what is going on at Ayatollah Towers

If Iran has some smarts around the table, they will carefully use the leverage the US gifted them to quietly split the US and Israel from the rest of the world.

RedTagAlan · 31/03/2026 14:59

MushMonster · 31/03/2026 14:42

Oh, Charles is going to US.
I panicked just thinking Trump was coming to UK!
And China visit is May indeed.

Quote :"And China visit is May indeed."

"May" as in "May happen" now I reckon. Ol Trumpy has rather set a new precedent re what leaders of one State do to another.

" President Trump. Are you aware that VPNs are strictly controlled here in the PRC, and that TRUTH Social is banned ?"

JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:59

Spandauer · 31/03/2026 14:23

My indignation is off the scale today.. 🤬

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mie6lcfobh2c

Use your own Truthful Navy. Don't involve ours.
You started this shit.
We're not on diaper duty for the Tantruming Tango Toddler.

AcrossthePond55 · 31/03/2026 15:03

JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 14:11

A very large funeral in DC with a ma-hoo-sive party afterwards? 🙏🏻🤞🏻🥂🎉

A very large but mostly unattended funeral in DC with a ma-hoo-sive party attended by just about everybody afterwards?

FTFY

SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 15:04

logicisall · 31/03/2026 14:55

I see Iran is rather unsportingly following Napoleons advice. Fair play.

One can only imaging what Arthur Wellelsey might have said when told he had Trump and Hegseth reporting for duty ....

In fact, I decided to paste that sentence above into Gemini, and even "AI" got my joke. And even more impressively added it's own spin 😎

Bored of Peace? Let's Mambo! - Trump Thread #158
SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 15:05

RedTagAlan · 31/03/2026 14:59

Quote :"And China visit is May indeed."

"May" as in "May happen" now I reckon. Ol Trumpy has rather set a new precedent re what leaders of one State do to another.

" President Trump. Are you aware that VPNs are strictly controlled here in the PRC, and that TRUTH Social is banned ?"

A sadly under rated election slogan in 2017 was "Make June the end of May" by Labour as shade on Theresa May

RedTagAlan · 31/03/2026 15:07

DuncinToffee · 31/03/2026 14:30

Poland has refused a US request to send a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East.

Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz: “Our Patriot batteries… are used to protect Polish skies and NATO’s eastern flank… we have no plans to relocate them anywhere.”

That is interesting. Going by what SerendipityJane posted yesterday re Switzerland,, I expect Poland know if they hand over their system they won't be paid, and it might take 10 years to replace it.

I think it is only a matter of time the Pentagon is asking China and Russia to loan them their missile interceptor systems.

SerendipityJane · 31/03/2026 15:11

RedTagAlan · 31/03/2026 15:07

That is interesting. Going by what SerendipityJane posted yesterday re Switzerland,, I expect Poland know if they hand over their system they won't be paid, and it might take 10 years to replace it.

I think it is only a matter of time the Pentagon is asking China and Russia to loan them their missile interceptor systems.

The future is going to be shaped by whether Chinas eternal hatred of Russia outweighs their distaste for the US.

JoshLymanSwagger · 31/03/2026 15:14

RedTagAlan · 31/03/2026 15:07

That is interesting. Going by what SerendipityJane posted yesterday re Switzerland,, I expect Poland know if they hand over their system they won't be paid, and it might take 10 years to replace it.

I think it is only a matter of time the Pentagon is asking China and Russia to loan them their missile interceptor systems.

It must be disappointing to be a US citizen at the moment. When you consider how much tax you pay for your armed services - of which you are very proud.

Finding out that the Greatest Country in the History of the World with the Biggest, Bestest, Strongest Armed Forces in the History of the World with the Biggest, Bestest and Strongest Planes, Boats and Sodiers in the History of the World are down to a couple of life rafts, 3 catapults and a peashooter...

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