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u/CalbertCorpse 2d ago
Psychologically speaking, this man thinks everything is a television show. He gets his information from television (news) and he knows television is produced (fiction - reality TV - etc) and he conflates the two. He is so busy being a narcissist that the entire “rest of the world” is the information coming out of this little box in his room. He believes news is “fake news” because if it’s not the thing that HE willed into existence by thinking it, then of course it’s “fake.” Anything he wills to be true is the only reality. He had enough money growing up to have people who made this happen for him, and now he has an army. He has ALWAYS been delusional. So delusional that the weak minded believe his confidence means he MUST know something that they don’t know, and they exalt him. This is now mass delusion.
The history books by the time I am dead will have it much more thoroughly spelled out. And due to human nature, we will keep doing this throughout the entire human timeline…
This is the story of the dictator who believes his own delusion.
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u/milkyjoe241 2d ago edited 2d ago
People forget all he wanted to do was be on TV
He spent the 80s and 90s failing at every business venture under daddys control. Failed casino, steaks, water, airplanes, no NFL deal, overpaying to get his name on a building, ect.
Then in 2000 he got what he wanted : the apprentace. A sucessful show where he didnt have to be competent to succeed. He got to sit on the top and judge others without repurcusion and have the producers do all the work. And he got seen as a businessman while playing a fake one.
Then that was taken away from him, all he wanted. He was back in a world which reqiured work and competency. He had none. So he retreated to TV again and fell into the Fox News rabbit hole. He watched so much he memorized the way they talk. And he saw how the talking heads on the network worked. They would include former politicians, people who lost their elections, say anything without being held accountable. Exactly what he wants.
But Rupert Murdoch was playing a tight game at the time. While Fox News would say anything to rile up the base, the politicians in power would use tonwd down language to keep their hands clean. Then Trump jumped in the race. Not to win but to spin off Trump TV, which was more set up than his campaign. So he spouted what he heard watching Fox 10 hours a day. And it worked because it went to a Fox audience that were riled up by fox but let down by the political speach. Trump was the perfect parrot to just say what they want to hear.
Trump didnt come up with Drain the Swamp. He repeated it after someone said it in a rally and the crowd cheered. So he kept saying it. And he kept repeating anything they wanted to hear. Build the Wall with no plans of how to do it.
Then the calls came in, Epstein, Russia, Isreal, Saudis. People that look into political candidates for any amount of blackmail and with Trump it was easy. And Trump had no plans for the presidency, so he just had to play along with what they want.
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u/inajeep 2d ago
Couple of things, those failed businesses were to launder money. He had a relationship with the Russians way before he thought about running.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-timeline-of-trumps-long-history-with-russia/
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u/greenroom628 2d ago
he just wanted to be a "big shot." dude grew up in NY where he saw firsthand how power and fame worked and wanted that.
not to make anyone's life easier or better or serve a greater purpose; to Donnie -- he IS the higher purpose.
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u/Miner_239 2d ago
can't wait to read the history books 30 years from now
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u/TwistedDragon33 2d ago
My history book had his first term in it. It just ripped him and his administration to shreds about how he was the most incompetent and corrupt president. Wait till they cover his second term...
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u/ReactsWithWords 2d ago
Was my prediction correct?
I predicted history books would title the chapter about Dubya “What Were They Thinking?” They would title the chapter about Trump’s first term, “No, Seriously, What The Fuck Were They Thinking?”
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u/SlobZombie13 2d ago
I can't wait to read the psych books about how and why do many people went along with it
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u/TK_Games 2d ago
Fear. Fear of the other, fear of the unknown, fear of the military, fear of their friends and neighbors, fear of change, fear of brown people, fear of their own repressed sexuality(that's a big one)
Lot of fear really, just a bunch of itchy little cowards
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u/iMecharic 2d ago
Fear and hate. You can’t just claim people were scared of the other, they very much hate.
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u/TK_Games 2d ago
Oh, my mistake, I operate on Star Wars rules in which hate is a given byproduct of fear. I was digging into the root cause of the hate, not saying it isn't there. There is absolutely hate. Anecdotally, a majority of it is motivated by a fear of what isn't understood coupled with a pride that tells them that fear is rational when it is not. And that 'narcissistic bias' (that everyone subconsciously has, btw. Imo we all should be questioning it constantly, but that's a different subject), fuels this idea of, "Oh, not only is there this 'other', and you compete for resources and their way of life affects yours tangentially and that's a little scary." Right? Nobody likes change.
But the kicker isn't there. The kicker is in the 'other' is also somebody you wronged. Because you wronged them hard. You expect the retribution, and that's even scarier. So you deny, 'Oh that never happened. You're remembering it wrong'. And what that does is it just makes it worse, it compounds that fear until you're not thinking straight. You need to get 'them' before they get you, because they're going to get you. That turns into hostility. That hostility, is taught to others and and suddenly this nameless fear, that nobody could identify becomes organized hate. I work rehabilitating assholes and I see it over and over and over. They think they're the heroes in the story, it's my job to make them realize they aren't. I like my job
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u/CalbertCorpse 2d ago
Read up on “drinking the cool aid” and the origin of that term. It’s completely understood.
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u/atimez3 2d ago
I was watching a show yesterday and one of the characters said that she had come to believe that there were only two reasons people do anything - love and fear. This really resonated with me and helped me to realize how often I'm actually afraid and how that fear drives my interactions with others, particularly my loved ones. Definitely food for thought.
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u/TK_Games 2d ago
I fully believe he is a solipsist at this point. Like, his brain-mush is incapable of registering that he isn't the only thing that actually exists. When you are as delusional as he is, it's the single defense mechanism that costs him nothing. And we all know how he never actually pays for anything
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u/LKHAN_Missing_Ninth 2d ago edited 2d ago
How Trump's dementia addled brain thinks foreign policy works
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u/ElderSmackJack 2d ago
Stop blaming this on dementia. He’s just this stupid. He’s always been this stupid.
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u/NotTheSharpestPenciI 2d ago
Also, always surrounded by people whose job was to answer "yes" to whatever moronic thing he said and make things work the way he wanted them to work. He can't grasp that the world isn't filled with his servants and that things aren't going to be the way he wants them to be just because he says so.
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u/kbeks 2d ago
As a former fan of the apprentice, that was apparent from the jump. And that’s the production team putting him in the best possible light, they still couldn’t hide that if he decided he wanted to blame someone or not, he would. If it went against what his advisors said initially, he’d always make sure to get them to say “yes sir, good call sir, tough decision but you’re right, sir”. He always sought and received that feedback. Every. Single. Time.
It’s not just that they say yes, btw, he seeks the yes. He needs them to tell him that he did a good job in order to feel whole. I’m sure there’s a ton of shrinks who would love to get access to him for a long series of conversations about how little affection daddy showed him.
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u/mjheil 2d ago
It's not he who shrinks need to study so much as his followers. What psychological conditions must exist for people to behave so hatefully?
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u/kbeks 2d ago
Pod que no los dos?
I was talking to a coworker and he said the exporting country pays the tariff. I said no, the importing company pays the tariff, and then they increase the price of the goods so as to recoup their costs. He didn’t believe me. I sat the man down, I pulled up a few econ articles about the tariff process, he didn’t buy it. I found a Wall Street journal article on it. One of his trusted news sources. It said precisely what I had told him.
I saw a grimace, for a second, before an immediate pivot to “at least he knows what a woman is.”
Wait wait wait. Hold on. He lied to you. To your face. Over. And over. And over again. He lied to America. He got his media apparatchik to amplify this lie and beat you over the head with it, but you so quickly pivot to some culture war nonsense without even so much as a shrug?
Idk maybe I’m a special kind of petty. The only time I voted republican was for a certifiably insane lady who was running against a Democrat for city council who happened to lie to my face. About redistricting, and then he tried to run as a spoiler when he lost the primary. Failed both times. But that really pissed me off, so when he got onto another ballot for lower office, I damn sure wasn’t going to vote for him then. She’s crazy but at least I know where she stands. I don’t expect my coworker to suddenly vote blue, but damn, at least reflect for a second…
Long story short, yeah, they all need to be studied. Probably me too.
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u/generic_username404 1d ago
If those people were capable of reflection, the world wouldn't be suffering a second and possibly third Drumpf term.
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u/Western_Roman 2d ago
Yup. No one ever said “no” to him when he was younger and look where we’re at now.
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 2d ago
And racist. Don't forget that. He's a fat, stupid, racist.
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u/TicoPraCaramba 2d ago
Don’t forget: pedophile, rapist, 6-time bankrupt, 34-count convicted felon, misogynist. I hope I didn’t leave anything out. Oh yeah: tried to overthrow a democratically elected president.
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u/Positronic_Matrix 2d ago
He has multiple disorders: malignant narcissism, low intelligence, and dementia. It’s all the above.
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u/jaded1121 2d ago
Yes stupid but have you personally dealt with a person with dementia? He has lots of the classic sign of dementia plus being a narcissist.
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u/UNC_Samurai 2d ago
It’s lifelong inherent stupidity, compounded by syphilitic rot, dementia, and malignant narcissism.
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u/cyrpious 2d ago
It’s like someone figured out how to make fecal matter and concentrated evil into a singular object
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u/Chickencrosscat 2d ago
My dad has it and it makes this wild to see. It’s like if someone let my dad run a country in his state. Just wow!
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u/ElderSmackJack 2d ago
Yes. Both my grandmother and aunt. No. He isn’t demented. He’s a moron.
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u/Faiakishi 2d ago
He's always been a moron. Which makes his stark decline over the past few years even more noteworthy, because he was already so fucking stupid.
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u/brick_jrs 2d ago
He doesn’t understand consent. He never understood it. That’s why he is a rapist.
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u/skippermonkey 2d ago
Somebody told him he signed a bill recently that outlaws the buying of Russian oil unless there’s a signed peace treaty.
So, this is him flailing after that fact reached his brain.
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u/IrritableGourmet 2d ago
Don't be silly. He just signs whatever is put in front of him. He had no idea what is written on it.
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u/VoxCacophoni 2d ago
He may actually have lost the ability to tell reality from what he's imagined.
I actually felt a chill down my back there. He may have sincerely, honestly lost his grip on reality. The military needs to step in, he's a danger to every living thing on Earth.
(Obligatory snide remark: He always was, but now the cardboard cutout mask of normality has fallen off. Does he have to drop nuclear bombs on Macaulay Culkin before anyone actually does anything?)
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u/InsertCleverNickHere 2d ago
Oh, I think he knows he lied. He's lashing out because he never thought that Iran would hold out until the mid-terms, and it's really screwing his side over. Enjoy his pain.
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u/VoxCacophoni 2d ago
Oh I intend to. That's why I found what Ukraine is doing to be so funny: they just watched Fat Adolf yelling at them, said "that's nice", and went straight back to pounding Russia flat.
Narcissists can't stand being ignored, and he's becoming increasingly irrelevant. He must be seething, I hope every second is hell- all of his own making 😆
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 2d ago
Coming to grips with how rightwing fascists lie is important. They don't care if they're caught, they don't need to believe the lie, they need it to be uttered. Speaking it gives it a magical ability to fracture reality. They aren't trying to convince you, they are forcing their will. Regardless of factuality, they have forced you into a different context- where instead of dismissing and crushing the disinformation, the battle is determining if the liar is being serious.
In all cases, it doesn't matter if the liar believes, or intends to convince, the reality is they have broken the veil and created an unreality.
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u/gdshaffe 2d ago
Long years have taught me that trying to parse what a narcissist truly believes vs. what they know they are lying about is largely futile. "Reality" only exists for them insofar as it is willing to adhere to the Prime Directive, which is to reinforce the Narcissist's perfection.
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u/Bezulba 2d ago
Why do you think the Military will do any of that? They've purged anybody they think might not be on board with the MAGA movement..
Besides, do you want to have a military that feels it's it's duty to keep a check on the government? That's a sure way to end up with a military dictatorship because they will inevitably believe they'll be able to do better
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u/VoxCacophoni 2d ago
The military has an oath to fight enemies both foreign and domestic.
I agree that the military has been ideologically purged by this lot, but strictly speaking every military is supposed to watch against overreach or usurpation by civil leaders, much the same way that a referee is meant to enforce the rules during a football match.
The problem here is that the military hasnt acted to enforce the rules since Reagan.
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u/LuxNocte 2d ago
Holy shit, no.
The "foreign and domestic enemies" but was added in 1861, referring to people who literally take up arms in revolt against the union.
The military is very explicitly underneath civilian leadership because they are very explicitly not the referees. That way of thinking is the opposite of the intentions of the Constitution.
I'm curious how you think the military "acted to enforce the rules" under Reagan. Are you referring to illegally selling weapons to Iran?
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u/VoxCacophoni 2d ago
I'm saying that they didn't enforce the rules under Reagan. Since he was negotiating with Iran to hamstring Carter before he even took office, ie committed treason, he never ought to have been allowed anywhere near power to begin with.
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u/tea-drinker 2d ago
Firing on the shipwrecked is literally the textbook example of illegal orders that must not be followed in the literal textbook they use to learn about illegal orders and not following them.
18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
- Department of Defence Law of War Manual (https://media.defense.gov/2023/Jul/31/2003271432/-1/-1/0/dod-law-of-war-manual-june-2015-updated-july%202023.pdf)
Yet, they fired upon the survivors of the "drugs" boats destroyed near Venzuela.
The notion the military will not obey every order given is not one you should plan on relying on.
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u/Cargobiker530 2d ago
If we've learned anything in the last ten years we should have learned that sworn oaths don't mean shit. The U.S. Armed Forces, Congress, & Supreme Court all swore oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution and they handed it all over to an obvious moron & traitor.
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u/Dagordae 2d ago
Oaths aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Turns out anyone can just say anything, they’re not mystically binding.
The military has already been following his illegal orders. You know that time they blew up a boat then blew up the survivors? That’s very literally a textbook example of illegal orders they are absolutely not supposed to follow.
The idea that the military would stand against illegal orders and so on is simply not an idea that has any basis in reality. They talk a big talk but the cases of soldiers(much less generals) refusing to follow bad orders are incredibly few and number and always end with the military doing its best to destroy the dissenter. Usually succeeding.
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u/Zombatico 2d ago
Dementia affects the entire brain, not just memories. The ability to interpret reality is one of the many things that gradually fails.
Add that to the inherent self-serving alter-reality that narcissists live in already and yea, he's cuckoo.
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u/intangibleTangelo 2d ago
as a trained trump translator, i'm legally bound to point out that there is another interpretation of what he's saying. he may be saying:
i forced them to agree because i'm strong and i bullied them into it.
if that's the case, it's one of those "nobody had the courage to do what i did" kind of statements. in terms of the ceasefire, it's a distinction without a difference. in terms of his mental state and worldview however, it's fairly consistent with his lack of rigor or attention to highly significant details, and not necessarily an admission that he made it all up.
i can't wait until he stops talking.
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u/According-Insect-992 I ☑oted 2024 2d ago
He lost that long ago. He is a believer in that certain stain of bullshit that we make the world with the power of thought. He’s been long gone for decades into that shit. I mean, his whole life has been one case after another of failing to be held accountable after getting doing whatever he wants to whomever he wants. He was already an idiot. A life without consequences has given him even more brain damage. He’s living in his own fantasy world but the really scary part are the millions who’ve joined him through shared psychosis.
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u/eaglescout1984 2d ago
"So if Trump says there's a ceasefire, but the 2 combatants say there isn't then that would mean..."
"There is no ceasefire."
"NOOOOooooooOOOOOOO, why would you think? "
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u/the123king-reddit 2d ago
I really don't know if this is real or satire any more.
I'm actually leaning towards real.
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u/Androxilogin 2d ago
Yep.
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u/the123king-reddit 2d ago
...you guys are so fucked.
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u/papyjako87 2d ago
Dude won two elections by lying his ass off, so now he just tries it on the international scene, not really surprising. Too bad for him the rest of the World isn't as terminally stupid as the average US voter.
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u/warcomet 2d ago
now a lot of ppl are questioning the last election, definitely feels like vote rigging to me..makes you wonder if the DOGE thing was for him to just gain access to all the voting machines to rig em with a code to ensure Trump stays in power indefinitely ..
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u/cattaclysmic 2d ago
Tens of millions of US voters have voted for him in 3 elections now and he still enjoys unwavering support from 30% in most polls despite everything. Questioning the last election might feel good but the rest of the world considers the intelligence of US electorate to just be a liability.
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u/techknowfile 2d ago
Have you seen how he polls in other countries? Many above 30%. Some above 70. There are idiots in every country
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u/D1ngu5 2d ago
It shifts responsibility from our dumbfuck electorate to say it was stolen. It almost certainly wasn't. Our fellow citizens are just that ignorant and morally bankrupt.
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u/TheCrisco 2d ago
So, there was almost certainly some level of fuckery involved, but I still agree that pretending that's the only (or even primary) reason he won is nonsense. I've interacted with Trump voters over the years, tried having discussions with them, and the hard truth is that there truly is nothing he could do to lose them. Many believe what he says over literally anything else, others simply don't care, and some will just vote for any jackass with an R next to their name.
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u/wyzapped 2d ago
This is not humorous
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u/kryonik 2d ago
Nothing he does is funny. I've heard a bunch of detractors say "well at least he's funny" but he's not. He's not self-aware enough to be funny. At best he's pathetic. At worst, he's an existential threat to all life on the planet. He was funny when he was getting power-bombed in a wrestling ring, not now when he has the nuclear codes.
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u/Carbonated-Man 2d ago
I am multi trillionaire now because I say so. Richest human eva! Because I say so! And if none of you agree with me you're wrong and you changed your mind because I told you!
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u/luckskywatcher 2d ago edited 2d ago
Don't forget to declassify documents just by thinking about it.
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u/Buckeye9715 2d ago
About the same as how he ran his businesses, just decided things despite never asking others involved in such matters. Also how he’s been the most sued man in history.
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u/Specialist_Exam4783 2d ago
Is that his justification with all those sexual assault cases? That he said that they agreed?
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u/throwaway661375735 2d ago
Both sides are saying they hadn't even heard of a ceasefire, until the media was saying it... And then Russia destroyed a thermal power plant in Kharkiv. Ukraine cried no fair - but it was only Trump lying again about another announcement to the media.
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u/No_Jack_Kennedy 2d ago
Trump: "All sides have agreed on a ceasefire. They better not break it!!"
Putin: Goes ahead and bombs six energy facilities in the next 48 hours.
Trump: Does absolutely nothing in response...
I can't believe the US lets itself get humiliated like that. It's just a paper tiger at this point... If I was in Taiwan right now I'd get very, very nervous...
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u/McCool303 2d ago
That’s because Republicans have made the entire US about Trump. And TRUMP is a paper tiger. He always has been, his entire “you’re fired” tough business guy trope is a character he plays. While he seeks validation from the famous and connected in Hollywood. The insecure little boy that begs hookers to stay with him, while he lashes out at women in public. Or the wealthy little nepo baby that believes he deserves wealth by birthright. Trump is a colossal pussy flailing around making noise and throwing tantrums to disguise his insecurities, he’s the biggest paper tiger there is. He’s the literal definition of it.
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u/ReginaldJohnston 2d ago
Makes no sense. Since the drone attacks on the refinery plants Putin banned exports of oil and diesel. 4.7 million metric tons is still not enough to help with US crisis.
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u/kitjen 2d ago
We are so used to him lying that even when he lies about something as big as a ceasefire to a serious international war we all know there will be no consequences for him.
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u/MyBrainReallyHurts 2d ago edited 2d ago
25th Amendment
Democrats need a marketing team because everyone should be thinking the president needs to be removed with the 25th Amendment because of his dementia.
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u/darkstarr99 2d ago
Had Biden said anything like this the media and the republicans would be going after him relentlessly as unfit to hold office, but with Trump it’s crickets
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u/SarahSkeptic 2d ago
He is just trying to make his magical thinking into reality by claiming his lies is true because he said the words. Or something. Why isn't he in a straitjacket already?
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u/madkins007 2d ago
This is also how he ended 8 wars, improved the economy, fixed healthcare, etc.
The sad things is, some idiot politicians and agency heads feed into this delusion and leap to support whatever insane executive order he signs says.
Destroy national monuments? Sure thing boss. Rename things to feed the massive ego? We'll get right on it boss. Trash the economy, environment, protections for America people? Yessir. On it boss.
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u/GromitATL 2d ago
I continue to worry about people that can look at that man and declare that he is some kind of master negotiator or amazing businessman.
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u/bumpgrind 2d ago
Hahahaha. It's what we knew all along. Trump making up things in his head and communicating them as "facts". You can guarantee that anything he says is entirely fabricated.
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u/bradamster 2d ago
Because I said so? Man is starting to just not try anymore. Defeatist attitude. Everything he touches dies
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u/Lightningstruckagain 2d ago
It’s like declassifying Top Secret documents, you can just think it and that makes it so.
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u/KindlyLecture9087 2d ago
The man’s ( if I can call him that without insulting all men) a fucking loony.
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u/AntonioLovesHippos 2d ago
The Russians could probably nuke the US, but Trump would retaliate against Ukraine
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u/Hopeful-Flounder-203 2d ago
You guys are missing the point: by law we can't buy that diesel from a warring party. So he declares peace to give the transaction the smallest possible fig leaf of legality.
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u/Hot-Refrigerator6583 2d ago
Seems like he's used to that method of argument working for him in the past.
"You'll do it because I said you'll do it."
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u/ghallway 2d ago
He really isn't a good president at all.