The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Welp that romance is over

 

Eventually Trump ruins all relationships, it is just that Elon got out with most of his money intact, unlike the Pillow guy and Gulliani.

DD

 

it will be much slower bleed for his fortunes. his fortunes are not all in one thing like the pillowguy..

 

This is the Say-Anything President saying anything.

 

Trump is so profoundly ignorant ... yet ... The Smartest Man in the Room (™)


Trump tells German leader D-Day ‘was not a pleasant day for you’ as chancellor is forced to school him on Nazis

A meeting between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Frederich Merz took an awkward turn on Thursday when he suggested that Germans might not view the anniversary of D-Day — commemorating the U.S.-led invasion of Europe that was the beginning of the end for the Nazis — in a favorable light.

Sitting in the Oval Office, Merz and Trump were discussing the death toll from Russia’s three-year-old war against Ukraine, the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the end of World War II, when the German leader noted that tomorrow marks the 81st anniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied amphibious assault on Adolf Hitler’s European stranglehold that began with American, British, Canadian and Free French troops storming the beaches of Normandy.

Merz told Trump he wanted to discuss how to bring the current Russo-Ukrainian conflict to an end.

“I'm here, Mr. President, to talk with you later on on how we could contribute to that goal. And we all are looking for measures and for instruments to bring this terror war to an end. And may I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is D-Day anniversary when the Americans once ended a war in Europe,” he said.

At that point, Trump interjected, seemingly wisecracking to Merz: “That was not a pleasant day for you.”

The chancellor began to reply that it was “not a pleasant day” before stopping himself and delivering a bit of a history lesson for his U.S. counterpart.

“In the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship,” he corrected.

Merz continued by stating that Germans know what they owe to America for liberating their country from the Nazis, telling Trump that the U.S. is “again in a very strong position” to help end Russia’s war by throwing steadfast support to Ukraine’s defensive efforts.

“We know what we owe you, but this is the reason why I'm saying that America is again, in a very strong position to do something on this war and ending this war. So let's talk about what we can do jointly, and we are ready to do what we can,” he said.

The bizarre moment was not even the first example of questionable historical references to the Nazi and post-Hitler era from Trump, who also attempted to crack a joke about Merz’s efforts to push past decades of German pacifism to help bolster Ukraine’s defense and jump-start his country’s own arms industry.

Asked whether Germany is doing enough to meet their commitments to NATO by spending a set percentage of GDP on defense needs, Trump replied that he knows Germany is now “spending more money on defense now and quite a bit more money” and called the development “a positive thing” before waxing on about the late American Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s views of Germany in the wake of two world wars.​

 

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JFC, really?

 

I'm guessing that these are 12 countries that won't be reaching a tariff agreement with the US.

President Donald Trump has revived his abhorrent and racist travel ban from his first disastrous term in office, this time banning travel from 12 majority-minority countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.​

 

Mad King Don goes full scorched earth on conservatives who only support 90% of his changes-everyday agenda.


Trump is making new enemies on the right — and they aren't the 'familiar Never Trumpers'

An op-ed published by The Guardian on June 5, author and Democratic insider Sidney Blumenthal — once a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton — argues that new opposition to Trump is growing on the right and goes beyond the right's Never Trump faction. And Blumental cites Trump's tariffs and attacks on the federal courts as two of the things that are alienating them.

"As a political matter, besides being unpopular, Trump’s tariffs, in combination with his assaults on the institutions of civil and legal society, have drawn out the most intelligent and skillful members of the conservative legal establishment, who themselves have been some of the most crucial players in the rise of the right wing, to man the ramparts against him," Blumental argues. "These are not the familiar Never Trumpers, but newly engaged and potentially more dangerous foes."

Blumenthal continues, "While corporate leaders uniformly abhor Trump's tariffs, they have stifled themselves into a complicit silence on the road to serfdom. But Trump's new enemies coming from the conservative citadel of the Federalist Society are filing brief after brief in the courts, upholding the law to halt his dictatorial march."

In the past, The Federalist Society's Leonard Leo was a major ally of Trump. All three of Trump's U.S. Supreme Court appointees —Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch — were aggressively promoted by Leo and others in the Federalist Society, which Trump is now railing against.

"Trump’s venomous social media posts against Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society co-chairman and right-wing powerhouse, reads like a memoir of an ingenue taken advantage of in the big city by strangers," Blumenthal observes. "'I was new to Washington,' Trump explained, 'and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real 'sleazebag' named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions.'"

Blumental adds, "Slowly, Trump has come to the realization that this Leonard Leo 'openly brags how he controls Judges, and even Justices of the United States Supreme Court.' Trump was revealing that Leo understood his power beyond his influence over Trump on appointments. 'Backroom hustlers must not be allowed to destroy our Nation!'…. Trump is enraged that his betrayers from the Federalist Society have claimed roles in the resistance. He has no loyalty to anyone or thing, but demands personal fealty, certainly now above any ideological litmus tests."​

 

Blumenthal's a massive POS, and I wouldn't trust his GOP "sources" at all, but is this one of those "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situations?

 

These are the same morons that cry about DEI

 

@deb4rockets

 

New Grads Join Worst Entry-Level Job Market in Years

 

Two thigs.
1) This is the first time in a long time I have seen gas close to the $3 dollar mark in a long time up here in NY.
2) Was in Pennsylvania a few weeks back for a golf trip and was staggered by how expensive gas was there. What's up with that?

 

US Citizens who frequent Home Depot and look/speak "illegal" might get an all expense paid vacation to an El Salvadorian super max prison!!! Just like Trump promised.