It Costs A Lot Of Money To Be This Cheap - Trump Thread #169

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(Title with apologies to Miss Dolly)

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Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5559791-the-reaper-should-have-gone-to-specsavers-trump-thread-168

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

I wonder what the word was that he was searching for when he came up with "ineloquent".

I asked AI and it said

"The word beginning with 'in' most associated with Donald Trump Jnr. (Sometimes known mockingly as 'SCROTUS' is 'insolvent'.

Would you like me to provide you with a list of all the businesses associated with President Trump that have declared bankruptcy ?"

Good for AI, just this once.

But what about the 7-10 (other figures are available) wars he ended? Ukraine was on day one, it’s just nobody including the Russians and Ukrainians know it’s ended. 🤣

https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2101293140946644997?s=20

The Sec of War has a Send me tour?

Sunday, September 20, 20261:21 PM Truth Social

"Supreme Intelligence," probably because of its relationship to the Supreme Court, is losing badly to both "Superior" and "Extreme Intelligence." Therefore, we are going to take "Supreme Intelligence" OUT, deleting it as a qualifier, and let you vote for the Final Two: Superior Intelligence, or Extreme Intelligence. A fresh Vote begins now! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Doing polls the Trump way. No doubt there will be an EO later proclaiming what the new name will be.

Meanwhile -

He posted this. No idea is the data is true or not, but it is amazing that with his political science grad "girl team", did not walk him through how graphs work, and how this should really be one he wants to hide.

After Natalie printed it out, surely Trump would have asked what that drop was around 2016. A negative slope similar to 2008. Then just after 2020, that negative reverses to a strong positive gradient around 50 deg, then again something happens in 2024/5, and that gradient shallows off to just below 45 deg.

I suppose there is at least the foresight here not to publish the data that this graph is based on. So people can put it in a spreadsheet and get the gradients, and get the date that the big TRUMP arrow is pointing to. The Biden era bit.

Goodness me. Re my post above, I had a look, and here it is. Here is the actual fed data, graph, and data that can be downloaded to excel.

Median Household Income in the United States (MEHOINUSA646N) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org)

And wow, just wow, their jigging of the scales on the actual graph makes Agent Orange look worse than he actually is.

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Sorry. Re above. I see what I have done here. The Agent Orange graph is " Real Median Income". They have labelled their graph wrong.

Too bad all that lovely dosh US families are rolling around in seems to be disappearing when confronted with fuel, food and healthcare.

Is this week is going to be 'Greenland, Greenland, Greenland' again? Rehashed old Sparkly new agreement being signed in NY at the UN gathering I think.

Expecting the usual insults from 🍊💩 to the other leaders and for the 'Billy No Mates' photo call.

It will be PM Burnham's first face to face with Orangina so he (Drumpf) is bound to get a dig or two in about the Falklands and NI.

"It will be PM Burnham's first face to face with Orangina so he (Drumpf) is bound to get a dig or two in about the Falklands and NI."

I'm not convinced Agent 🍊will know who's facing him. Do we assume that he has voices in his ear (real ones, not hallucinations, that's a different story) telling him where he is and to whom he is talking and what he should say to them?

You know how every once in a while the big game turns on the hunters? That would be so sad. And DJ a glowing newlywed and all...

Even before you posted it I had it pre-ignored.

https://bsky.app/profile/kateinkharkiv.bsky.social/post/3mvzqwxy5222p

"Unfortunately."

Not up to your high intellectual standards? Fair enough.

"What a shame!"

And that's your conclusion 🍊?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/trump-white-house-press-pool-cnn-ban.html

Key Points

The White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House’s ban of CNN from acting as a member of that pool, CNN reported.

CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV pooler when the president is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

In addition to CNN, the other members of the White House TV pool are NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox

Re: Media suing Trump for his abuse of the First Amendment: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm0e32rwvrryo
About time too, that was far too long a time coming.

Too little too late

He will be left with only foreign media.

FOX is joining the boycott? I am actually amazed.

And they're going to win, too. Clear cut 1st Amendment violation and there is even a legal precedent existing as he's done this before, been sued, and lost.

Taken them long enough to find their spines.

Don’t hold your breath, he just announced Trump TV…