Panda-monium - Trump Thread #170

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Mid-terms looming, approval falling, prices rising, wars ongoing - Ping Ping and Fu Shuang must be wondering what heinous crime they committed to be banished chosen as envoys of friendship between China and USA. 🐼🐼

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5572772-it-costs-a-lot-of-money-to-be-this-cheap-trump-thread-169

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Weaponising law enforcement against political opponents again. He has an utterly personal vendetta against Omar because... she's a Somali immigrant and she dares to criticise him. What are the odds his fans would describe her as 'uppity'?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ilhan-omar-home-raided-trump-investigation-b3065226.html

The BBC has been cleared by a judge to serve legal papers on Donald Trump’s children as part of its $10bn (£7.5m) court battle with the US president after it doctored one of his speeches.
The broadcaster believes Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner may have information that would help its defence against the US president’s defamation claim.

Mr Trump sued the BBC after The Telegraph revealed a Panorama documentary had spliced together two parts of a speech he had made in 2021, claiming it gave the impression he incited the Capitol riot.
According to court documents, the BBC tried to serve subpoenas on Ms Trump and Mr Kushner in Miami in May but was prevented from doing so by Secret Service officers guarding their home. The BBC also tried unsuccessfully to serve papers on Mr Trump Jr at Trump Tower in New York.
The BBC believes the US president’s children and son-in-law are likely to have “personal knowledge of possession of discoverable information” that is relevant to the case.

The BBC claims that both Ms Trump and Mr Trump Jr were present in the Oval Office when Mr Trump was revising the speech - AFP via Getty Images/Timothy A Clary
According to the Politico website, a judge has granted the BBC’s request to be able to serve papers on the three via email and registered post, rather than in person as is usually required, finding “no compelling reason” why it should not be allowed.
Ms Trump and Mr Kushner were both advisers to the US president when he made the speech in question, and the BBC has said that both Ms Trump and Mr Trump Jr were present in the Oval Office at the White House when Mr Trump was revising the speech.

Mr Trump’s legal team has described the BBC’s desire to serve subpoenas as “politically driven”.
The BBC has previously apologised to Mr Trump for misleading audiences by editing his speech but insists it did not defame him.
Its lawyers argue that the Panorama episode was not broadcast in the US, nor was it available online in the US.
Mr Trump claimed the way the speech was edited by Panorama made it seem as though he had urged his supporters to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell” when in fact it had spliced together two parts of the speech that were nearly an hour apart.
The Telegraph’s disclosure of the doctored speech led to the resignations of Tim Davie as director general and Deborah Turness as head of news.
Mr Trump’s defamation case is scheduled to be heard by a court in Florida next year

Excellent news.

BECAUSE I SAID THERE IS, SO THERE IS... OK.

Effectively what he said.

“Well, they agreed. You know why? Because I said, ‘You agreed.’ That’s why,”

Ah right. That is what he said when quizzed on Monday about his Ukraine war " energy ceasefire" that he had announced on Sunday.

“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” Trump said on social media Sunday morning.

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv supported the surprise ceasefire announcement but did not know about it in advance, and Moscow declined to say whether it backs the proposal."

Source.

Trump suggests Russia and Ukraine did not agree to his ‘energy ceasefire’ before he announced it | CNN Politics

He is literarily making it up.

The new Leavitt is worse than the old

Zacharias did say "We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign"

How will diplomacy manage without Her Griftiness? Don't think the Greeks will miss her (or the Embassy). Trump Jr dodged a bullet there

CNN had a bit about the new Goebbels Barbie. She has deleted a lot of her social media. Ahh but the wayback machine.

She likes a bit a conspiracy theories and pro Putin posts

She appears to be to the right of Trump.

"She pushed for more aggressive action on immigration, suggesting in a series of now-deleted posts from June 2025 that the administration should suspend habeas corpus for migrants because the circumstances justified invoking the Constitution’s exception for cases of rebellion or invasion. The fundamental legal protection allows people to challenge their detention in court."

And Piza gate FFS. And "Hollywood elites were pedophilic cannibals"

New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts | CNN Politics

If she's to the right of Trump and we locate Trump at Mar-a-flipping-Lago, that makes her in the sea off the east coast of Florida. Sounds good to me (providing she's actually human and can drown).

Guilfoyle has resigned.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/12/scientist-russia-plague-victim-lab-worker-pandemic

This is an interesting opinion article. And the comments are worth a read too.

Edit thread for opinion article.

The BBC is reporting (possibly with some barely disguised glee) that Trump told her to resign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwdr8xzr45l2t

Is that not sacking ?

Always confuses me that. I might watch the Rommel film again tomorrow, to ponder.

It's one of those irregular verbs ...

Is that similar to Trumps irregular truths?

@RedTagAlan so another mentalist enters the fray .
Trump has plenty to say about Russian refineries being hit.
Nothing about Ukrainian shopping malls,markets ,schools,hospitals etc.

To borrow a line from Casino movie.
Its all about the dollars always about the fucking dollars.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/09/its-21-days-until-the-us-midterms-this-is-how-we-win

And the Guardian is no longer available to read unless you sign up so that they can harvest your data and spam you with advertising by email..... Sigh. Has it been archived?

Relentless. 😡
www.npr.org/2026/10/13/nx-s1-6000055/east-potomac-golf-course-tree-clearing-judge

He just does what he wants and govt depts are their solely to service his whims and desires,whether that's in pursuit of money or revenge or just pure spite.

I caught the opening statements of Goebbels Barbie 2.0 on the car radio today. She's very wooden with a voice that is simultaneously boring and irritating. At least Barbie 1.0 was able to lie in a fluent manner

Trump has just posted the video clip of the man being killed by a tiger which the police have asked members of the public not to circulate.

Disgraceful for a POTUS to do that

Depravity, thy name is Donald Trump.

BBC not backing down.

From Guardian:
The BBC is asking a federal judge in Florida to force Donald Trump to sit for a deposition as part of the president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
According to a Tuesday filing, the BBC and Trump’s legal team had agreed for him to be deposed on Friday. The BBC’s lawyers wrote to the judge that they have spent months trying to secure a location for the deposition from Trump’s team.
On 28 September, Trump’s lawyers told the BBC’s counsel that the president “is no longer available for his deposition on October 16 due to other matters of national importance”.
While Trump’s lawyers said they would follow up quickly with a replacement date, they did not, ultimately suggesting that he would be available in the second or third week of January, well after the deadline to complete the discovery portion of the case. Lawyers for the BBC had pledged to keep the location of the deposition confidential.
As such, the BBC’s lawyers are now asking the judge to require Trump’s team to schedule the deposition.
“Plaintiff chose to file this lawsuit and, in doing so, he accepted the obligations of civil litigation,” the BBC’s motion reads. “The BBC therefore asks the Court to compel Plaintiff to confirm a date for his deposition, notify the BBC of a secure location where such deposition is possible and any other logistics required to ensure Plaintiff’s safety, and sit for the deposition, as the core rules of discovery require.”
Magistrate judge Enjoliqué Aytch Lett has scheduled a discovery hearing that is likely to touch on the deposition issue for 22 October.