Trump 59: The Walls Are Closing In, So Naturally He's Running Another Grifting Scheme

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Xan]

Trump is just trying to avoid the stench of failure.  He sees that McCarthy is losing the battle and Donny is trying to get some distance.  Too late, Former Guy.  You backed another loser.

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

Sounds like somebody’s had a big, big day. False conspiracies and yanking the rug from under the the dumbasses who supported him really have tuckered out. He needs bedtime and a story.  “Goodnight Moonhead. Goodnight Melania wanting to kick Moonhead out of her life. Goodnight stupid people still trusting Moonhead. Goodnight stupid people who trusted Moonhead and got burned. Goodnight Methhead Pillow Guy who wrecked a profitable gig for Moonhead. Goodnight Moonhead offspring as you lay awake all night worrying about indictments but worse, how you will grift money. Goodnight Fox News, as you try to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Goodnight, Congressional Crazies, as you start turning on each other because there is no honor among thieves. Goodnight to all the people who think it is acceptable to steal, lie, cheat, or just be downright evil. Goodnight to amoral assholes everywhere. 

[Shrubbery]

Wait what is this? the Orange One has been announced by the mainstream media to have lost yet another election when it was clearly rigged and he was in reality elected Speaker of the House in a landslide! 

[Xan]

Last night Trump posted that it was actually a good thing that they'd had so many votes for Speaker because that made it "BIGGER & MORE IMPORTANT".  Way to try to made lemonade out of those lemons, dude.

He also put up several posts about how he was going to destroy the drug cartels using the military.  Errrr.... private citizens can't do that, Donny.  I guess he's gone from insisting he didn't lose to just pretending that he's still the president.

[Xan]

The most juvenile president (at levels never seen before!) just posted this on Truth Social:

Where's a falling meteorite when you need one?  Can the earth just open up down there in Mar-a-Lago and swallow him up?  Tidal wave? 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

8 minutes ago, Xan said:

The most juvenile president (at levels never seen before!) just posted this on Truth Social:

Where's a falling meteorite when you need one?  Can the earth just open up down there in Mar-a-Lago and swallow him up?  Tidal wave? 

What is he trying to say here? I get that he’s implying he will be Speaker and I guess maybe he’s trying to convey that he would be making fun of Joe Biden but he just looks like a buffoon (well, more than usual.) Something tells me he knows darn well that Nancy Pelosi’s condescending clap went over quite well not only in this country but also around the world as he became a problem for allied countries right away. I think he’s trying to do his version the many iconic photos of her besting him- not just the clap but when she is standing up and pointing at him at the meeting (in the blue suit), the meeting with Chuck Schumer that Trump stupidly insisted have press coverage only to end up looking horrible and the photo of her striding out, Chuck Schumer right behind her, ripping up his State of the Union speech (actually I cringed at that one but I didn’t have to sit behind him while listening to the anger-inducing drivel.) He knows that when she was Speaker she outdid him at every turn so I think he’s trying to get across he will be the same but boy, he is so BAD at it! He had a TV show and has had movie cameos- how is he so TERRIBLE at it all? 

[GreyhoundFan]

I bet this made him crazier than usual:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I bet this has him extra upset:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

He’s such a nasty piece of work. 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[onekidanddone]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He’s such a nasty piece of work. 

 

McConnell’s wife. Racist and misogynistic in one ‘truth’

[47of74]

Course now fuck knob is going on about the documents discovered at a Biden think tank office;

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Former President Trump responded Monday to the breaking news that the Justice Department is reviewing classified documents from President Biden’s tenure as vice president that were found last fall in a private office Biden had previously used.

“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified,” Trump said on his Truth Social account, sharing an article on the document discovery from CBS News.

I'd tell Apricot Pol Pot that comparing the current situation to his case is like comparing apples and horse shit.  Looks like Biden might not have even been aware of the documents being at the office until his lawyers were cleaning it out but once he was aware altered the Archives and returned the fucking things.

And this morning I happened to be looking at the googles at some of the "tearms of endearment" for Fuck Face von Clownstick and I came across this;

https://www.findnicknames.com/nicknames-for-donald-trump/

There's some in there I might have to work into the rotation now...

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

I really want to organize a human shield around Ruby and all the other poll volunteers who Trump has put in danger. I have to believe there really is a special place in Hell for him. I try to believe we are all born children of God and all carved in the Palm of God’s Hand but I’m starting to think some people were just God with a really bad chest cold hocking up a big loogie, looking at it, and thinking, “Well, this will be an interesting experiment. What’s the worse that could happen?”

[GreyhoundFan]

I'm no fan of Elaine Chao, but his racist crap is horrible. He also seems to forget that he appointed her to a cabinet level position.

[47of74]

9 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I'm no fan of Elaine Chao, but his racist crap is horrible. He also seems to forget that he appointed her to a cabinet level position.

I hate that orange fucker.  I freely admit it too.  It is either that or have a combination aneurysm/stroke/seizure/and loss of bladder control trying to keep that bottled up.

[SPHASH]

10 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I'm no fan of Elaine Chao, but his racist crap is horrible. He also seems to forget that he appointed her to a cabinet level position.

She's no longer of any use to him so now she's under the proverbial bus along with everyone else.

[GreyhoundFan]

He seems like he's panicking. Good.

 

[CTRLZero]

I think I like the idea of “Trump positive” people in prison.  Is there a blood test?  But seriously, I hope Jack Smith isn’t swayed from his job, and that he works fairly but quickly.  C’mon Jack! 

[livinginthelight]

A "serial and open Trump hater"? 🤣

Not sure what a serial hater is, but I LOVE that phrase!

[fundiewatch]

I also love that line and mentioned it to Mr. FundieWatch who said that he describes me as a “serial and open Trump hater” on the regular. 😆 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says"

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WASHINGTON — Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.

Trump's alleged comments, reported for the first time in a new afterword to a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, came as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un escalated, alarming then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

The new section of "Donald Trump v. the United States," obtained by NBC News ahead of its publication in paperback Tuesday, offers an extensive examination of Kelly’s life and tenure as Trump's chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019. Kelly previously was Trump's secretary of homeland security. For the account, Schmidt cites in part dozens of interviews on background with former Trump administration officials and others who worked with Kelly. 

Eight days after Kelly arrived at the White House as chief of staff, Trump warned that North Korea would be "met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before." When Trump delivered his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2017, he threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" if Kim, whom he referred to as "Rocket Man," continued his military threats. 

Later that month, Trump continued to goad North Korea through his tweets. But Kelly was more concerned about what Trump was saying privately, Schmidt reports.

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.

Kelly tried to use reason to explain to Trump why that would not work, Schmidt continues. 

"It’d be tough to not have the finger pointed at us," Kelly told the president, according to the afterword.

Kelly brought the military’s top leaders to the White House to brief Trump about how war between the U.S. and North Korea could easily break out, as well as the enormous consequences of such a conflict. But the argument about how many people could be killed had "no impact on Trump," Schmidt writes.

Kelly then tried to point out that there would be economic repercussions, but the argument held Trump’s attention for only so long, according to the afterword. 

Then, Trump "would turn back to the possibility of war, including at one point raising to Kelly the possibility of launching a preemptive military attack against North Korea," Schmidt said. 

Kelly warned that Trump would need congressional approval for a pre-emptive strike, which "baffled and annoyed" Trump, according to the afterword.

Trump tweeted in early January 2018: "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"

Schmidt also writes that it was well-known among senior U.S. officials for several decades that North Korea sought to spy on U.S. decision-makers. So White House aides were alarmed "that Trump would repeatedly talk on unclassified phones, with friends and confidants outside the government, about how he wanted to use military force against North Korea."

Schmidt writes that there is no indication North Korea had a source in the White House, but he said it "was well within the realm of American intelligence assessment" that it could have been listening to Trump’s calls. 

"Kelly would have to remind Trump that he could not share classified information with his friends," Schmidt writes. 

According to the new section, Kelly came up with a plan he believes ultimately prompted Trump to dial back the rhetoric in spring 2018: appealing directly to Trump’s "narcissism."

Kelly convinced the president he could prove he was the "greatest salesman in the world" by trying to strike a diplomatic relationship, Schmidt writes, thereby preventing a nuclear conflict that Kelly and other top military leaders saw as a more immediate threat than most realized at the time.

The situation with North Korea consumed Kelly almost immediately upon his taking the job at the White House, which he had not actually committed to do before Trump tweeted that the post was his, according to the new section.

“Holy s--- — oh, I gotta call Karen,” Kelly said, referring to his wife, according to the afterword.

"Three days later, on Monday morning, Kelly met with his aides in a large conference room at a Department of Homeland Security office building a few blocks from the White House. Kelly was solemn. 'This is a great job,' he said, referring to the cabinet position he was leaving. 'That’s not a great job. But the president has asked me to do it.'"

 

[GreyhoundFan]