Summary
Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.
The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.
Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.
“Everything is everyone else’s fault! Why can’t everyone see that my way is better for me and my interests?!?!?!”
Sorry donnie, we do see it.
Who knew that hiring people based on how much they suck up to you would mean that everyone on your team (including yourself) is incompetent?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I mean, it’s worked for him in the private sector. Didn’t scale up.
He also seemingly selected some of them by watching what they did on the TeeVee. I guess he thought that’s pretty much how HE got there, since he had that stupid game show, so…
This is just how he is. He did the same in his first term. If you took away anger and resentment, he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
He would still have his diapers.
I also love how he ran as a reformer candidate, as if we didn’t have 4 years of evidence of him accomplishing nothing of value for his voters. Social media and 24/7 news have given us all goldfish memories.
It breaks my brain that people voted for him to help the economy. Without even getting into how bad conservatives are for the economy, Trump’s first term had crazy high inflation, job loss, and economic crashes. Why would his second term miraculously be the solution to fixing the problems he started?
And all he had to do was shut up, and take credit for the federal apparatchik doing all the work for him with COVID. Blather at a press conference to his followers to stay home and ‘beat the China virus so America stays strong’ - and then play golf. Push on industry and suppliers to build ventilators, hospital capacity, and facilitate lockdowns and remote school/work.
Imagine if instead of nearly a million direct deaths, we had a mortality similar to Europe - better even as we bought our way to the front of the vaccine line. An actual ‘America first’ in recovery from COVID and the economic slowdown, instead of fumbling the ball so hard in his fourth year and making Biden president.
How anyone thought that he would be the right choice to manage any crisis, let alone economic woes is dumbfounding. The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.
The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.
I’ve always been told that the aim would be to to find people SMARTER than you with more education and experience and expertise than you, and surround yourself with such people, but a whole lot of people in dumbfuckistan seem to think that being a loudmouth bragging and bloviating idiot who has surrounded himself with lots of people who are even dumber and/or more inexperienced and/or too afraid to speak up is a great model for “leadership”.
People with dumbfuckistan mindset hate seeing someone smarter than themselves; they call this being “elite”. For some reason, people don’t feel the same way about athletics as they do politics. People don’t think you should put “outsiders” into their favorite sportsball team, they want elite athletes. Somehow, that’s not elitist. But having the smartest people running a government - well, that’s just elitist talk.
Boggles the mind.
Absolutely. My best learning experiences in life - both collaborative like mentoring/educational setting, or competitive like sports - have been when I was massively outclassed. Because if you put aside your lizard-brain feelings of being less than or inferior and listen/observe, you can see how it’s working for them and understand what it is you are/aren’t doing or do/don’t know.
Observe. Ask. Understand. Decide… and Review.
But humility is understated. It doesn’t sell on TV, it doesn’t captivate a crowd or rally the masses. “I don’t have the answer, but let’s find out” is honest but doesn’t have the same pull as “the problem is clear, and I know the solution”
Because something something “Bidenflation” and “Republican gud aht bidness, he billionaire”.
People are just very fucking stupid.
Trump blames everyone but Trump.
Take direction from a rapist and you’re bound to get raped.
America; The world will happily move along without you.
Enjoy your reduced airfares to the beautiful Russian city of Siberia in one of Trumps own resorts.
Wonder in amazement on your tour of the potash fields in Belarus as you get a komplimentary Putin Tramp stamp across your backside.
“If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
Trump needs to try the opposite.
Would be hilarious to see him pull a 180 on everything.
He’d still fuck it up. He’s a mooncalf, incapable of doing right. The pixies stole Ma and Paw Trump’s baby and replaced it with a misshapen golem in vaguely human form.
I can tell this is fake news because it implies trump has friends.
Running America like one of his businesses.
What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?
He doesn’t “think”. Ever.
How dare they report facts! The facts are out to get me! They never favor my decisions!
The fact that McHitler hasn’t stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.
Maybe God isnt all powerful and is forced to watch all she made kill itself over and over in ever more savage ways.
God realized how badly She fucked up and died of Chrstian pity.
The only justice in this world is the justice we make.
God realized they fucked up with all us uppity hyper-hierarchical monkeys and is going for a hard reset, or never existed. Change my mind.
If god, in the christian, all-knowing and all-powerful sense even exists, she must fucking hate us, because she allowed Drumf to happen. I could never venerate a god who is that callous and spiteful.
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
St. George Carlin
LOL. What a treasure !
My dad is 60 and has had a stroke in Janurary. He’s far from perfect, but he’s been a good role model for me, made me a better person, and helped me when I realized my mom was more insane each passing day.
This fucker is the oldest president, looks worse than his age, is angry 24/7, and hasn’t had one.
Life is a cruel joke.
If there is a god, he’s incompetent at best, and more likely, an asshole who is doing this shit on purpose.
Around 13,000 children under the age of 5 die every day. I’d love to see god explain that lol
Lucifer: I’m not in the business of murdering innocent children. That’s God’s jurisdiction.
- The Devil’s Carnival
“We didn’t start the fire. It’s always been burning since the world’s been turning…”
God: “No, yeah, that was me. I started it. Flicked over the first domino. Still watching the picture unfold. Quite the sight, wish you could see it.”
“I work in mysterious ways.”
- God (probably)
Unless Trump is the antichrist, then God intended for it to happen.
hes a low-level demon escaped from hell, anti-christ would have been able to warp reality one of the key feature of its powers
He’s able to do that for 1/3 of the US population.
Maybe who you think god is is all wrong? Maybe it’s the other guy or girl or it who’s really in charge.
Been thinking about that myself, with my shitty religious upbringing. This is what god wants. And, if you’re Jewish and you’ve at least heard the phrase “god’s chosen people,” I just wonder how you square that with one of the worst people to live having killed 6 million of them. God was really looking out for the chosen people that day, let me tell ya…
My ex, who is Jewish, told me “chosen” is more like “singled out.”
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered?
What plans? He’s not even tried to do either one in even a meaningless, symbolic way.
I’m so fucking tired of the incessant sane-washing. Just constant gaslighting from all sides to make me feel crazy for freaking out about this shit. I’m sick of it
For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I’m sure he’s still trying though.
I’m so tired of all the “reasonable language” used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that’s me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.
his son-in law of his daughter he lusts, kushner has planned real estate there too.
His attempt was a concept of a plan.
Well he did yell at Zelensky?
His plan was to pressure them the way he’s used to pressuring people in his business dealings. The only problem is that countries like Ukraine aren’t just businesses that he can stiff, drag to court, etc.
Be fair. He tried nothing and is all out of ideas.
His plans were to reward the aggressors and try to grab a piece of the carcass from the other vultures.
oh sure…it’s a ‘press’ problem
can only shine a pile of shit for only so long, Donald.
All he must do is explain the logic behind the decision using real economic concepts and theories. We’re all keenly aware of why he isn’t doing that.
I mean… Why doesnt he just stop doing things that give him bad press.
If he were smart enough to do that, he probably wouldn’t have bankrupted a casino twenty years ago.
Four casinos, depending on how you count his six bankruptcies.
I can think of one thing he could do that would get him lots of good press, but it’s typically a TOS violation.
Narcissistic psychopaths gonna narcissistic psychopath.
Carry on with the negative press about the fucking neo-Nazi filled GOP. Fuck them.
