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

[Spandauer]

(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

We so need that laugh emoji ...

Literal LOL.

Me too. I wondered if it was Nats, then reading the news I saw it was a Monica, and she is Director of Protocol or something. But for some reason, she is not guiding from the side, she is inserting herself right into it.

Now we have a "Protocol Girl".

And she looks just like Printer Girl, IPhone Girl, Ballroom Girl, Looks like Younger Melania Girl.......

Where is he getting all these clones from ? From the same place as they got their new and improved Mitch?

Has Uncle Xi brought a new batch with him on his plane ?

Are we soon to see Golf Girl, Diet Coke Girl, Pond Girl, Helipad Girl ?

This is all getting very Stepford.

Natalie does remind me in some way of Owen. Not in her behaviour but in her appearance out of nowhere. Do we know she's not DTs secret daughter?

It's a bit like his last term when there were Melania doubles and it was so obvious! This term Melania can't be arsed so she just keeps away.
Till now when she shows her face to win back the female vote as we cruise towards the midterms

Who is Owen??

Probably Charlotte Owen - rumoured to be Boris Johnson's love child.
However :
Public records and birth certificates confirm that her biological parents are Michael Tranter-Owen and Kathryn L. Grantham

The internet rumour mill began after Boris Johnson nominated Charlotte Owen for a life peerage in his 2023 Resignation Honours List. At just 29 years old, she became the youngest life peer in British history to join the House of Lords.

I listened to the latest TRIP US podcast this morning, and that was mentioned. Finally, Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci seem to have joined the real world where Trump is an absolute nutter and harming democracy. They seem half convinced there will be a blue wave in November.

Seeing we're nearing the end of this thread, I was just wondering if something along the lines of: "No change to Trump at 80 - SNAFU - Trump thread #170" might be appropriate for the next thread title, but then realised it doesn't work as the situation continues to get progressively more fucked up the longer he's in situ.

Yup Charlotte Owen. @Spandauer interesting quote. Not sure we can rule out any other paternity based on that but it's not anyone's business really, unless there's been some dodginess in appointing her to her current position.

Any historian (not you Boris) knows that birth certificates are just pieces of paper. Merely proof of an administrative agreement between the mother and whoever chooses to stand as father.

Yes Boris isn't a historian. Excellent debate here between himself and the venerable Mary Beard. Rome V Greece democracy.

Monica Crowley was Nixon's Natalie (not joking). She also started out by sending him fawning letters.

We live in a very weird world.

There’s definitely more than an element of the “women who write to Death Row inmates” about Natalie. There must be an acknowledged syndrome or similar, because there is something very unhealthy about her obsession. Probably called Eva Braun Syndrome…

<edited for too many “somethings”>

I am getting totally lost here.

Appointed to what position?

Are you saying there is now a "Boris lovechild girl" in Trumps entourage ?

Goodness me. Oh. Now I have a thought worm, and you planted it. Remember " The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" ? Now I have a thought of Liz Truss in an Alpine clinic, being "Trumpified", and emerging as... "takes the lettuce off his burgers girl".

I'd suggest it's FUBAR or TARFU not mere SNAFU, I feel. Or even FUBAPFU.

IDK, back in the '70s we just called them Star Fuckers. People (cuz they weren't all women) who would shag anyone as long as they were famous.

Oh my!

Trump TV launched on September 21 as a 24/7 YouTube livestream from the White House, promising viewers a way to watch major moments from the Trump administration without relying on traditional news coverage.
The launch followed the White House barring CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from its press pool, prompting major television networks to suspend their shared coverage of presidential events in protest.
But the new streaming venture quickly found itself facing an embarrassing problem of its own: viewers.
According to figures reported by The Daily Beast and cited by Jimmy Kimmel during his September 23 monologue, Trump TV peaked at around 8,500 viewers on its first night.
Within days, however, the audience had fallen to fewer than 500 concurrent viewers.

No one wants to watch? Who’d have thunk it??

And his palls who spent $14 billion buying TikTok for him, are sitting there seething asking why he put it on YouTube, instead of the platform they FREAKING BOUGHT FOR HIM.

I have to ask though, because I am ignorant about TikTok... it is super banned where I am... does it stream ?

No idea. I don’t use it. Thought it was just videos? Don’t quote me on it though.

I suspect he had "social media girl", whoever she is, look into it, to find the service that pays most for subs and ads.

Maybe he was thinking he can make as much money at it as Joe Roegan. I reckon if we break every action he makes to $ and cents, we won't be far off the mark when it comes to "why?".

If you play a video at t+1s after it's recording, it's conceptually "a stream".

(Like watching a programme 10 minutes lat on catch-up to avoid adverts)

Back in 1950 Robert A Heinlein commented, “The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they—" is almost always, "Money."” (This was when filming Destination Moon.)

Thus also, “The answer to any question starting why "Why does Trump—" is almost always, "Money."”

For someone who's so obsessed with ratings, that's gotta hurt.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.