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It's High Crimes and Misdemeanours Time! Trump thread no. 95

979 replies

Roussette · 23/07/2019 08:05

I thought it was about time I started a thread so here it is! Mueller time tomorrow...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/21/mueller-report-trump-nadler-impeachment

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Roussette · 21/08/2019 09:35

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-cancel-denmark-jokes_n_5d5cca28e4b0d1e11369cada

Tom Wright
@thomaswright08
This is no longer funny. Danish troops fought alongside the US in Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 Danes died. The president dishonors the alliance and their sacrifice. On the same day he sought to appease Putin by supporting his return to the G8

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Roussette · 21/08/2019 09:38

I must make a list of all the allies he has insulted... it's getting bigger that list

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Roussette · 21/08/2019 09:44

And this is from a Danish politician...

Rasmus Jarlov
@RasmusJarlov
As a Dane (and a conservative) it is very hard to believe. For no reason Trump assumes that (an autonomous) part of our country is for sale. Then insultingly cancels visit that everybody was preparing for.

Are parts of the US for sale? Alaska?

Please show more respect.

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lionheart · 21/08/2019 10:19

After another chat with the NRA, apparently.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/20/trump-gun-control-background-checks-shootings

PerkingFaintly · 21/08/2019 10:23

Trevor Noah took a trip home earlier this year.

SA President Cyril Ramaphosa shows Trump how "being presidential" is done:

Noah's Between the Scenes about it. Actually, watch this one first!

Lweji · 21/08/2019 10:56

And the Jews.
Just keep up the distractions.

Trump accuses Jewish Americans of ‘disloyalty’ for voting Democratic, in antisemitic trope
"President’s remarks seemed to refer to a perception that Jewish Americans have a dual loyalty to both America and Israel"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/20/trump-antisemitic-trope-jewish-americans-voting-democratic

Whosorrynow · 21/08/2019 11:10

slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast/2019/08/ivanka-and-the-reckoning-of-new-york-society
Dirt on ivanka 😁
(⚠️vocal fry alert)

Lweji · 21/08/2019 11:18

I read in a WP piece that the US had tried before to purchase Greenland, in the 50s or something, and ended up setting up a base there.

I'm half now expecting that he'll want to buy the Azores too.

cozietoesie · 21/08/2019 18:40

He'll have problems if he tries to buy Alaska. Grin

lionheart · 21/08/2019 20:15

Someone, some time soon will write a Phd. or a book entitled 'The Politics of Embarrassment: Shame in the Age of Trump.'

It will be a humdinger. Smile

lionheart · 21/08/2019 20:18

Jesus.

Trump says: "I am the Chosen One."

Lweji · 21/08/2019 20:40

He'll have problems if he tries to buy Alaska.

Yes. I'd advise him Louisiana instead. 😆
Or, better still, California. Maybe he'd then get a chance of winning there.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/08/2019 20:44

So I think he's finally lost the plot. Picking a fight with Denmark and both insulting Jewish people in quite Hitleristic terms and more or less declaring himself their New messiah.

Is he trying to throw the 2020 race?

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/08/2019 20:45

I’ve got a window box he could buy if he likes. Nice view and north facing

cozietoesie · 21/08/2019 20:49

Goodness, Lion. Has anyone sought a view from Javanka, yet?

PerkingFaintly · 21/08/2019 20:49

Yeah, I've been thinking this for a while.

Every time I see a shot of him shambling or struggling to follow a conversation, or he doesn't know the words to the National Anthem or how to behave during it, or I read a tantrum tweet (the ones he's clearly written himself), I feel embarrassed for the people who still support him.

Maybe Fox News hides all this material from them, and they don't know? Few carefully curated, short clips, and lots of ranting rallies?

But in a few years' time they – or at least their neighbours – are going to be looking at this material at length and saying, "Really? We publicly put our trust in this? We elevated this? This was our hero ? What were we thinking? "

Like I say, folk are going to feel bad. His unwellness is so visible now.

It's one thing to see a retired elder statesperson, whose frailty is visible but whom we hold in respect and affection, do the occasional bit of ribbon cutting.

But a disintegrating egomaniac trapped in office unable to back down, being held up only by the minions who are exploiting him, is a pitiful sight.

PerkingFaintly · 21/08/2019 20:51

That was to the 'The Politics of Embarrassment: Shame in the Age of Trump.'

I think it covers this Chosen One shit well enough too.Shock

lionheart · 21/08/2019 21:10

Yes, it does.

Whosorrynow · 21/08/2019 21:21

Shambling and struggling to follow conversation
how long have we got before he starts to shit himself himself in public?

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/08/2019 21:28

He’ll be forgiven for that too by his followers and it will be claimed to be a master business tactic.

Roussette · 21/08/2019 21:50

I think he has deteriorated massively. Listen to this clip... it's him rambling at his absolute worst... talking about Dayton and El Paso hospital visits...

"They love our country, they love our President. They love our President.
The love for me was unparalleled. They were pouring out of the room. The floor was covered. The Dotors were coming out of the operating rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor, you couldn't even walk on it."

twitter.com/atrupar/status/1164227820811431936

When is enough enough?

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/08/2019 22:43

When will even his most loyal of followers realise that enough is enough? So who is running the country then? Reminds me of when Brezhnev was in power.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/08/2019 22:58

t.co/8XlPDU3uz4?ssr=true Did that work?

Whosorrynow · 21/08/2019 23:14

I'm starting to feel that we might be approaching a tipping point with regards to his lack of cognitive capacity?
I mean it's just ghastly now really isn't it 😳😲