Depraved, Desperate, Deluded and Dangerous - Trump Thread #160

[Spandauer]

More of the same. 🤬

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5510944-the-king-of-crazytown-cant-control-the-chaos-trump-thread-159

Exactly - we cannot trust him to abide by the laws of war, maritime or common sense. He bombs without plan or consideration of the effects. If no one in America can control or talk sense into him the world needs to show they will protect themselves as one.

https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-files-articles-impeachment-calls-25th-amendment-trump-becomes

Sorry, third point is meant to be taking Europe's attention slightly off Ukraine and the NATO push and pull could end up with US help being withdrawn. Trump left Ukraine without intel for one or two days not so long ago!
I am not a good writer, but I have not forgotten Ukraine, in my mind. Tge nearing two million lives lost are very present in my mind.

I got that plain and simple the wrong way round, didn't I. Apologies.

Your way is a great deal better.

I’m reading about the possibility of Pope Leo XIV and President Obama holding a meeting (and a photo-shoot) shortly to discuss, oh, I don’t know, spring flowers or something neutral. The difference between the comments on X and bsky.social is staggering. Until now, I did not know that Obama was Satan personified to many self-proclaimed Catholics. You learn something new every day.

That's because he's speaking crazy. Those of sound mind won't have a clue what gibberish he's speaking.

He's managed to find the problem.

Apparently, Netanyahu has been made to consider talks with Lebanon. So the ceasefire may still hold. All very fragile at present, but it may work. Fingers crossed.
I still very much think that a Europe- Asia trading block and a possible Euro-Yuan or similar bigly currency can free us of Putin- Trump love affair and bring peace and glory back to this mess.
Sanctions will only be the beginning. Though they will send the message, something new, bigger and better needs to come out of this shit show Trump is starring. Or US will get us back into this by the very next day after Trump is chucked out.

Just because. Bastard.

Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

and let's get rid of the bees - why not?

For decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has been the one to answer such cries for help — a place where beekeepers turn when major disasters happen. Six months after the massive die-off, scientists from the USDA facility identified a likely cause: viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites. But now, the Trump administration plans to close the research lab, leaving beekeepers to question the future of federal research.
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The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has been the site of major developments in food and farm research in its 100-plus-year history. The Thanksgiving turkey was developed at Beltsville, as well as the first methods used to keep butter cold and fresh. Researchers there linked trans fat consumption to increased cholesterol and uncovered the smallest known plant disease agent.
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/soon-after-massive-honeybee-deaths-trump-moves-to-close-the-nations-premier-bee-lab/

They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees
Please

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi)

He can’t make money from it. Snot wurf it, innit. (Re: can’t see the forest for the bees.)
Arsehole.

I've been out all day and I too would like to see the answer on this thread. We all like being better informed on anything mentioned.

More details on the WH Regime's threats to the Vatican as posted upthread.

Pope Leo XIV has asked Americans to contact their members of Congress and demand an end to the war in Iran.

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I don’t know who this person is or in what particular context it was written, but I like it.

@Spandauer Just when I thought I couldn't possibly despise him more than I already do.
God he's loathesome.

He is not going to be happy with Melania mentioning Epstein.

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mj3hcbkqye2g

Melania Trump: The lies linking me with Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. I've never been friends with Epstein. I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence.

Reporter: Should Secretary Lutnick continue serving?

Reporter: Would you meet with survivors?

Melania Trump: walks away

Rat in a corner.

Regardless of what he thinks, that was a bad move for her. Most people weren't aware that there are online rumours saying that Epstein introduced her to Trump. By making this statement, she has made a lot more people aware of the rumours.

Streisand effect

This Melania? Yeah, right.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/09/military-draft-registration-automatic-iran-war.html

Automatic U.S. military draft registration planned by December, filing shows

• The Selective Service System plans to automatically register eligible American men between ages 18 and 26 for a U.S. military draft by the end of 2026.
• The proposal would implement a requirement passed by Congress to include automatic registration for "every male citizen of the United States" between those ages.
• There has not been a military draft since 1973, when U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam was winding down.
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently said President Donald Trump "keeps his options on the table" when asked about chances of a draft returning amid the Iran war.

Can't verify, but from X.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, who has not been seen publicly, will deliver a major message very soon.

She was supposedly sleeping with Epstein up to a year before she me Donnie

So much for the ceasefire. I'm not sure how many hours since the previous attack on Kuwait, but they've started again, with the added bonus of no warning sirens this time. Kuwaitis now questioning why the US isn't defending their bases there properly.

https://timeskuwait.com/kuwait-air-defenses-repelling-hostile-drone-attacks/

Interesting she is protesting so much now ?

Ah yes, about the Pope and these various MAGA "Catholics".

This superb article from a few days ago has been a light-bulb moment for me. It's Opus Dei! Of course it is!

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo

Gareth Gore has been tracing how, from the 1950s onwards, a Spanish Bank became essentially Opus Dei's piggy bank.

They built networks targeting vulnerable young people to sweep them into the organisation. There's cult-like control which Gore thinks meets the definition of human trafficking. Unsurprisingly there are credible allegations of sexual abuse, including by a major Opus Dei priest in Washington DC.

Opus Dei members are involved in eroding reproductive rights, influencing Project 2025, and funding January 6th. They recruit big donors and are very active in trying to influence politics and society towards their conservative goals.

"In places like Washington, [Opus Dei has] made a real concerted effort to infiltrate the corridors of power and has been immensely successful. I would argue that today, Opus Dei within the Maga Republican movement is one of the pre-eminent forces. There are several very high-ranking figures inside the White House and the wider Maga ecosystem who are either full-on members of Opus Dei or big supporters. People like Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation"

Gore was actually a financial journalist researching the collapse of Spain's Banco Popular in 2017. He couldn't understand why the bank had folded – until he realised that in the 1940s it had been taken over internally by Opus Dei and used from then on to fund their activities.