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

[Spandauer]

(Title with apologies to Miss Dolly)

Griftin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’, Truth Social is the lie, it’s all takin' and no givin'.
(Thanks @Jaichangecentfoisdenom)

Tangerine, Tangerine, Tangerine, Tangeriiiiiiiiiine. I'm begging of you please don't bomb Oman.
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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

L'etat - c'est moi.

Sow when it has to be demolished, a big payday for Trump Demolitions inc.

"I AM THE LAW"

Judge Dredd.

Melania won't be happy.....

Mel has all her ducks in order.

Tbf she must be relieved someone else is nursing Donny

Yeah. Is that Nats in the background there ?

Funny enough, she seems to feature on the Chinese State media article about the arrival.

The global times, and PRC state media do put a lot of effort into picking photos. See how grumpy Trump looks here.

Xi lands in US for state visit, greeted by Trump at airport - Global Times

She erased both wives and added herself in this ai image

Ah, I see :-)

I reckon Trump must really envy Uncle. Uncle has the full state media behind him, and Trump has had to ban the press.

Trump’s Syrup looking a bit dodgy in this photo 😜

Yes, you can see a bit of Mme Xi's shoe and dress in that pic.

Printer Girl needs a hard reset of her software. And a replacement of her logic board.

And Natalie seems to determined to insert herself into every shot based on this still.

I can’t believe she would do that, she is not ok

Where's Wally Natalie?

And she was guiding the flower girls too. Getting right in there.

The PRC media photos interest me. Uncle has his usual translator there. But there is a security/bodyguard there. And his face is very familiar. I am sure that is Uncles regular. And what's more, I am sure that is the fella who "escorted" ex Chairman Hu from that PRC meeting.

Not important really, but Uncle does not appear to like change. The people he has with him have been with him for years, and will know his every whim and so on.

Not like Trump. Who seems incapable of forming real relationships, and has a new "best friend" every 2 weeks.

Oh, and state media today is full of clear messages. From new Fentanyl laws to a report that the PRC has no fertilizer shortage, Complete with a photo of a "smart" fertilizer warehouse. But here the propaganda fails, because that place is more empty than full. The article also fits AI in, without calling it AI. So that might fit in with Trump wanting to call it SI.

PRC propaganda can be fascinating. When it is the only news you have on a subject that interests you, you really do have to learn to try to read between the lines. And of course, it is all controlled by the Party.

Link to fertilizer article here.

China secures bumper harvest with stable fertilizer supply, smart farming - Global Times

Pretty certain I said here that court orders won't make any difference

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqe8ek7608mlo

Nothing signals stable genius like when your bigly idea to rename AI with SI only gets support from Trinidad and Tobago (where dat??) PM (who dat?) the Trump fan and who wants a piece of VZ oil and gas action).

https://www.tiktok.com/@kejanjjhaynes/video/7688586804747832597?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

I was at Uni with a guy from Trinidad. Lovely chap. Once got me to write an address on a valentines card to hide who it was from. (I didn't have the heart to ask how many other people in London someone from Trinidad may know 😀)

E2A: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democrats-tee-up-pre-election-war-powers-vote-some-republicans-break-with-2026-09-24/

I just thought if Trump did manage to get AI rebranded as SI that would be genuinely bad news for the small Island of Antiguilla (Trinidad and Tobago's neighbours) who are currently enjoying a bit of a windfall from selling rights to use their countries domain address (.ai). Which is a bit unneighbourly of TandT although I think they were originally meant to be in charge of Anguilla when both islands got independence from the British Empire. Causing Antiguilla to stage an unlikely rebellion against independence.

Oh Natalie

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mwbqj54jv22a
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought

The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S

WTF is going on here?

At Xi's welcome, El Orangino reacted 'badly' to the noise of the fighter jets going over. Nobody else batted an eyelid.

He seemed startled and a bit discombobulated.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bL030mCoPlk

I'm a bit confused about the Natalie/NotNatalie photo. Who doctored it?

Wasn't it that St Kitts-Nevis wanted Anguilla to join them and Anguilla said no.

Trump's going off his head again against the press.
https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/2103151999890186519?s=20

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You missed the next stage........