He Has No Deal, He Has No Dice - Trump Thread #162

[Spandauer]

Old enough to remember whole years in which I barely thought about the American president.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/chat/5513875-depraved-desperate-deluded-and-dangerous-trump-thread-160

eta: in my haste I think I've numbered the thread incorrectly! Oh well.

Islam can take Christianity much more seriously than Christians. As my next door neighbour explained. Forget that Jesus is sacred to muslims at your peril. There are frequent stories of muslims being offended that "Christmas is banned".

It all goes back to Abraham, as i understand it.

Exactly....and China, Russia and Pakistan. The USA is a global laughing stock

@RedTagAlan and @MaraladeorJam Did you just recognise each other across a crowded room????😆

In Islam, Jesus is known as Isa, a prophet and messenger of God. Highly revered but not divine.

Colombian BBQ intestines are evil.

I see the blockade is due to start in 20 minutes …

Clusterfuck Part Deux

Small potatoes. The road to Swiss banks is this way ➡

At least the intestines are BBQ there. Just boiled here. Or that's how they look.

But I reserve evil for marmite :-)

There goes the thread. Hope @Spandauer has banked several titles.

I’m incredulous this is happening - I’ll have to view everything through my fingers now - like I do if I catch horror films nowadays! I’m not sure what will happen if they interdict a ship flying a Chinese or other flag - I feel sorry for those sailors caught up in it.

I also see Trump isn’t appearing today but is hosting the king/queen of the Netherlands - pretty incredulous royalty go anywhere near him too!

Where are the Dems this morning?

Don't wait for the Wall Street Journal to call and ask what you think. Their readers already know. Make a big banner with a photo, get your phones out and stand en masse on the Capitol steps. Refuse to leave.

Wrote your message for you:

Thirteen of your sons and daughters have already died in this illegal war that's costing $2 billion, yes, billion, per day and making getting to work unaffordable for you, and here's your President and his Secretary of State yukking it up at a UFC fight.

Further to my rantings, I saw something yesterday that said the primary messaging in the Hungarian election was about the corruption. Ya think there might be any of that going on in the US that you could work with, Dems?

I yield the floor to @walllaw
Rant away as much as you like. We're all with you.💐

It looks to me like he flew from DC, went to the fight, then flew back to DC. In a short time period, I mean. Almost as if he used AF1 especially to go to the fight.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/cambridge_aerospace_skyhammer_interceptor/

Now he’s back threatening water plants. I’m guessing Don Junior has bought a water company. Do they even mention ‘draining the swamp’ these days ?

How the republicans can stand behind this pile of shit, is behind me.

That's more than Trump ever did...

https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3mjeuuvvnpc2c

I've been looking at a few shipping 'live sites'. Why isn't there a big 'void' appearing where Trump is 'parting the waters' with his bigly blockade. I mean, it sorta just looks like business as usual.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/iran-threatens-bab-al-mandeb-closure-how-would-that-affect-world-trade

Posted this on another thread but felt it needed to be here too. The two threads are starting to converge, especially as they have the same posters.

He may well think he’s Moses - as well as Jesus - but doesn’t need to part the waves as they are ‘allowing’ ships through that aren’t calling in at Iran - I don’t know how many that may be though.

I think the US ships are supposed to be monitoring the entire Iranian coastline to intercept ships going/leaving one of their ports - but I’m not sure where they’re doing this from - they can’t go too close.

Not sure if they then race after the offending ship ala Pirates of the Caribbean 🤔

Iran war latest: Sky News

US military issues 'capture' warning to ships as Iran blockade begins
The US blockade of Iranian ports is now under way, according to timings outlined by Donald Trump after talks between the two sides failed. US Central Command has warned ships that break the blockade will face interception or capture.

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump's $10bn (£7.43bn) lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Check out the amount! He's going to want Iran's oil even more now.

@MsJinks

I think the US ships are supposed to be monitoring the entire Iranian coastline to intercept ships going/leaving one of their ports - but I’m not sure where they’re doing this from - they can’t go too close.

This sort of stuff can be monitored by aircraft such as AWACS and similar intelligence gatherers and also to some extent from space...

This convergence shows how much the orange turd is impacting others - our foreign affairs are definitely top of the agenda - don’t think the Pope is interfering at least though 🙈

Remember the quiet of Sleepy Joe? Take sleepy over insanity and megalomania every day of the week myself.

A little sad about this. It was unlikely to ever go to trial, but it would have been great if it had

Several ships that I noticed stationed in the north are still there. I'm now wondering if the feed is no longer in real time, for "security purposes".