Im betting he has no flipping clue what anyone is talking about from day to day. His brain, adled or not, is always in autopilot grift and spin mode. He just says the same rehearsed crap interspersed with whatever made up messaging they've scripted every time something happens.
Yeah. His brain is pudding or Swiss cheese (whichever metaphor you prefer) and can't remember what he did yesterday. The Alzheimer's/dementia is getting worse and worse and is shown by the way he's talking to (especially women) reporters now ("Quiet, piggy. and "You're dumb and ugly"). He's always been a colossal asshole, but he didn't do it that blatantly insulting in his 1st term. His brain has completely short-circuited and the guardrails for what he's thinking and what he says have pretty much disappeared. It's why he falls back on insults. His brain is telling him he's right and his sycophants never dare to disagree and tell him how great he is. When he's challenged, he falls back on insults because he can't understand criticism.
Taking a step back, if he wasn't such a danger to the world and such a monumental asshole, it'd be pretty sad. People like Miller know his condition and are using it to further their own agenda. Other world leaders know this and do the same. If he were a regular person, this would absolutely fall under elder abuse.
No, he was always a pretty blatant asshole. He openly mocked a disabled reporter and called Rosie O’Donnell a fat disgusting pig, He’s been doing equally shitty things publicly before even running for president.
Yes, he's always been shitty. I already said he was a monumental asshole. But, now he's a monumental asshole with pudding for a brain. Now he can't react as well and is more frequent with his insults because it's his defensive mechanism.
I know we both agree he was always a bag of shit. I was just pointing out he was Just as blatantly shitty before and during his first term. The mocking a disabled reporter and shitty comments were during that time period.
For me, I think it's the timing. The mocking the disabled reporter was during a rally with his supporters and the reporter wasn't there. Everyone always knew he was a coward who wanted to act big (6'3, 220 my flabby ass) who would insult people behind their back because he was scared of them. Now, he's in power and doesn't even bother/remember basic pretense of civility.
Yeah I think we are pretty much on the same page. I don’t think he really ever had basic decency or even pretended to. His whole first campaign was personal attacks on people. like calling ted cruz’s wife an ugly. I mean He took out adds in the paper calling for the execution of the (wrongfully convicted) central park 5 in the 90’s and refused to retract his statement admit he was wrong when they were proven innocent.
The most disappointing part of reading this for me was the realization that he probably (especially as his mind continues slipping) genuinely believes he is a savior of sorts because of who he surrounds himself with and how hard they suck him off.
In his fucked up brain, he probably actually believes he's a beloved man. Adored by the vast majority the world. Maybe even believes that what he's doing to this country is what the people want, or that it will benefit them. That his godly status as a human will grant him greater permissions in his afterlife.
And then he's going to fucking die with those happy thoughts. Out with a smile. I can think of very few people who are less deserving of this luxury.
I completely agree with this take. No doubt he's always been a horrible person. But, pudding brain might actually believe this.
As a side note, one of my greatest wishes was to be able to see what went on in the heads of the most influential people in history when they made their decisions. It would be fascinating to be in their mind and see what is going on. Better and worse. Or even to be a fly on the wall in the meetings with no cameras and who and how the people around him are manipulating him. This feels like those stories you hear where someone manipulates a relative with dementia to change their will and sign over their possessions. "Time to take grampa's keys and put him in a rest home."
This is my happy thought, my dream scenario at a Trump rally: he has a seizure, gets confused, punches whoever is standing next to him, does a funny little dance, drops trou, pisses on the first few rows, falls forward into the crowd, and shits one last, watery anal-evacuation on whoever was dumb enough to try and catch him
Honestly, if he didn't die, MAGA would still vote for him. The thing most people hate is to admit they're wrong. This would be them admitting that the last decade they were all fucking stupid and got smoked by their hero. That and most are very uneducated. Nothing wrong with not having a formal education. Something wrong with choosing to ignore extremely blatant evidence slapping you in the face. One is uneducated. The second is stupid. Trump knew just enough to say that only stupid people vote for him.
Definitely needs to be on camera, because Maga will be spinning every conspiracy theory under the sun to try and justify civil war 2. They'll probably try regardless, but whatever happens needs to be broadcast live and be as humiliating as humanly possible. Something so shameful that only the most kool-aid poisoned nimrods would still rally to use his corpse as a battle flag. If the rest want to shade their eyes and pretend they were never there? Let them, because it doesn't matter. What matters is that Trump's name and movement does not survive him.
These fuckers believed that Biden was an imposter for most of his term. He could explode on camera just after going, "I think I'll eat this giant ticking plasticy thing." and people would just say he's at a secret base and that was an imposter who died on behalf of Antifa to trick people into thinking Trump was dead.
Of course, they will have no way to say why Trump is still hiding in a bunker. He's probably kidnapped by trans-refugees or something.
Yes, the first question was asked by an asian-american reporter, the second was asked by a black american reporter.
But more importantly, the first question was an open question that he could just ramble about doing the vaguely good thing, the second question was repeating his statements back to him, holding him to account for what that first answer actually means.
I want a reporter to out of the blue bring up the tax returns to trump again. Maybe it will trip them up if we flood the zone with all the old shut he did
I just dont get how in situations like this they dont bring the physical recording of them saying this. After nearly a decade of incessant lies how has the media not caught up that this man is physically incapable of speaking the truth.
The media hasn't shown you guys the video of him praising his own ability to lie, it's from the Apprentice and a boardroom meeting. He goes on a rant about how you should always lie, lie so much you start beliving it yourself.
Literally like, here in the Netherlands Trump's pick for ambassador said there are areas in this country where cars and politicians are set on fire and then claimed he never said this, except the reporter literally had the clip on his phone and Hoekstra just walked away after being proven wrong because there was nothing else he could do. How have American reporters not learned this
I wish they would push him like this but unfortunately it’s probably a bit dangerous. MTG goes against him and she receives death threats, and she was in on the con.
That is part of the job of the media, when they are allowed to do it. Since we allowed the organizations to be bought up by billionaires they are not allowed to do their jobs.
MTG goes against him and she receives death threats, and she was in on the con.
I blame part of this on the fact that law enforcement doesn't treat death threats or threats of violence with enough seriousness. The reason people keep sending death threats to people online is because I cannot think of a single example of "[celebrity]/[politician]/[person in viral video shared on social media] receives massive influx of death threats" has ever lead to a massive influx of arrests for those death threats.
I'm not saying it has never happened, just that I can't think of an example of it ever happening. If you can just threaten someone into submission, and there's no repercussions, and you observe that it is an effective tactic, of course it's going to happen every time enough people are aggrieved because someone said or did something they didn't like.
It's even more guaranteed to happen when you have people who engage in stochastic terrorism by egging people on to do it. Whether it's a president or a podcaster or just someone who runs a Twitter or YouTube account, if you can convince enough of your audience that this person you don't like is bad, and you've got a big enough audience, you can easily funnel a hate mob at that person.
The thing about MTG is that she isn't used to being on this side of the hate mob she has contributed to egging on for so long. And that's not me saying "she deserves it" because that's not my position. It's just recognizing that when you've been standing next to Caesar and cheering on the lion eating people for the past several years, it's gotta be real weird when you're suddenly in the arena, staring down the lion, and Caesar is cheering on the same lion who is growling at you now.
Journalists, even “liberal, mainstream media” ones, are partially to blame for all of this. Have the video queued up or a copy of the transcript and say “no you said this less than 48 hours ago”
No one pushes him or his cronies on their lies, they just bitch about it later
I agree, I watched Kristen Welker interview Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who is the senate intelligence committee chair. She pushed back on the boat strikes and asked him “we don’t kill drug traffickers at the border, so why is it happening to suspected drug boats that may not even be coming to the United States?” We need those questions asked every day to every politician involved in this cluster f*** of a situation.
Some WH journalist needs to push it and just say Bullshit or call him out in a press conference. Sure it will be his/her last presser with this administration but he/she would land a job just fine then, after a couple of years, if desired, he/she can rejoin the WH gaggle once the POS is gone
This guy is such an idiot. When his presidency is taught to future generations, I hope they include all of his retractions to statements he made on his own.
Three years left in his term and he will get worse and worse every day. He probably won't make it to next summer. And when the blessed day arrives we are going to be treated to an avalanche of republicans who had no idea how sick he was.
He's either so far gone he can't remember, lies like normal people breathe, or is gaslighting the shit out of those women... probably all three because he is a walking misogynistic POS.
Is it the video or is there extra Cheeto dust? And it looks like he missed under the nose. I'm sure that's reserved for something else, but you think he'd touch it up a bit before going on camera. But, yeah, what was I thinking.
It's pretty terrifying to watch an angry, spoiled, entitled, very old man run a country like a child would run a company without a single competent person intervening ☹️
Eight years ago I would’ve said he’s just lying, now you don’t know if he’s lying or just forgetting day-to-day, not that it means anything either way.
This is a regular occurrence for him. He always denies he said things that were captured on recordings, and his base and followers will agree with him.
Watch the movie The Apprentice (actually good) who shows Trump as young and upcoming. He learned that ”Never admit you’re wrong” and instead ”attack attack attack”
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Of course he does this. He damn well knows the full video will show they committed a war crime and why they now backtracking on releasing it.
Im betting he has no flipping clue what anyone is talking about from day to day. His brain, adled or not, is always in autopilot grift and spin mode. He just says the same rehearsed crap interspersed with whatever made up messaging they've scripted every time something happens.
Yeah. His brain is pudding or Swiss cheese (whichever metaphor you prefer) and can't remember what he did yesterday. The Alzheimer's/dementia is getting worse and worse and is shown by the way he's talking to (especially women) reporters now ("Quiet, piggy. and "You're dumb and ugly"). He's always been a colossal asshole, but he didn't do it that blatantly insulting in his 1st term. His brain has completely short-circuited and the guardrails for what he's thinking and what he says have pretty much disappeared. It's why he falls back on insults. His brain is telling him he's right and his sycophants never dare to disagree and tell him how great he is. When he's challenged, he falls back on insults because he can't understand criticism.
Taking a step back, if he wasn't such a danger to the world and such a monumental asshole, it'd be pretty sad. People like Miller know his condition and are using it to further their own agenda. Other world leaders know this and do the same. If he were a regular person, this would absolutely fall under elder abuse.
No, he was always a pretty blatant asshole. He openly mocked a disabled reporter and called Rosie O’Donnell a fat disgusting pig, He’s been doing equally shitty things publicly before even running for president.
Yes, he's always been shitty. I already said he was a monumental asshole. But, now he's a monumental asshole with pudding for a brain. Now he can't react as well and is more frequent with his insults because it's his defensive mechanism.
I know we both agree he was always a bag of shit. I was just pointing out he was Just as blatantly shitty before and during his first term. The mocking a disabled reporter and shitty comments were during that time period.
For me, I think it's the timing. The mocking the disabled reporter was during a rally with his supporters and the reporter wasn't there. Everyone always knew he was a coward who wanted to act big (6'3, 220 my flabby ass) who would insult people behind their back because he was scared of them. Now, he's in power and doesn't even bother/remember basic pretense of civility.
Yeah I think we are pretty much on the same page. I don’t think he really ever had basic decency or even pretended to. His whole first campaign was personal attacks on people. like calling ted cruz’s wife an ugly. I mean He took out adds in the paper calling for the execution of the (wrongfully convicted) central park 5 in the 90’s and refused to retract his statement admit he was wrong when they were proven innocent.
The most disappointing part of reading this for me was the realization that he probably (especially as his mind continues slipping) genuinely believes he is a savior of sorts because of who he surrounds himself with and how hard they suck him off.
In his fucked up brain, he probably actually believes he's a beloved man. Adored by the vast majority the world. Maybe even believes that what he's doing to this country is what the people want, or that it will benefit them. That his godly status as a human will grant him greater permissions in his afterlife.
And then he's going to fucking die with those happy thoughts. Out with a smile. I can think of very few people who are less deserving of this luxury.
It is sickening.
I completely agree with this take. No doubt he's always been a horrible person. But, pudding brain might actually believe this.
As a side note, one of my greatest wishes was to be able to see what went on in the heads of the most influential people in history when they made their decisions. It would be fascinating to be in their mind and see what is going on. Better and worse. Or even to be a fly on the wall in the meetings with no cameras and who and how the people around him are manipulating him. This feels like those stories you hear where someone manipulates a relative with dementia to change their will and sign over their possessions. "Time to take grampa's keys and put him in a rest home."
I'm waiting for him to have a stroke on live TV.
Stop it... I just got excited for a second...
This is my happy thought, my dream scenario at a Trump rally: he has a seizure, gets confused, punches whoever is standing next to him, does a funny little dance, drops trou, pisses on the first few rows, falls forward into the crowd, and shits one last, watery anal-evacuation on whoever was dumb enough to try and catch him
This is how romantic comedies start...
_While You Were Demented_ The Director's Cut
Honestly, if he didn't die, MAGA would still vote for him. The thing most people hate is to admit they're wrong. This would be them admitting that the last decade they were all fucking stupid and got smoked by their hero. That and most are very uneducated. Nothing wrong with not having a formal education. Something wrong with choosing to ignore extremely blatant evidence slapping you in the face. One is uneducated. The second is stupid. Trump knew just enough to say that only stupid people vote for him.
The term you're looking for is 'Willfull Ignorance'
It's the choice to remain uneducated and wrong, because accepting the truth means admitting to harsh realities.
I’ll take any ending scenario, but my preference would be slow, painful and televised.
Definitely needs to be on camera, because Maga will be spinning every conspiracy theory under the sun to try and justify civil war 2. They'll probably try regardless, but whatever happens needs to be broadcast live and be as humiliating as humanly possible. Something so shameful that only the most kool-aid poisoned nimrods would still rally to use his corpse as a battle flag. If the rest want to shade their eyes and pretend they were never there? Let them, because it doesn't matter. What matters is that Trump's name and movement does not survive him.
These fuckers believed that Biden was an imposter for most of his term. He could explode on camera just after going, "I think I'll eat this giant ticking plasticy thing." and people would just say he's at a secret base and that was an imposter who died on behalf of Antifa to trick people into thinking Trump was dead.
Of course, they will have no way to say why Trump is still hiding in a bunker. He's probably kidnapped by trans-refugees or something.
And incarcerated…
He could have already. Strokes can be subtle, just him stumbling and never telling anyone that he felt weird for while afterwards.
He's definitely too proud to say it
One can only hope.
The 🍔 burger of destiny awaits us....
I’m waiting for him to shit himself on live tv, having to waddle off screen leaving a brown trail behind
Nathan Thurm would like to say something... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjciBesIiPM
Well at least he didn’t pardon habeas corpus he just thought that was a person’s name😂
Autopilot grift, autopilot lust, autopilot vegence, autopilot greed, autopilot ego, autopilot being a dick . . .
Dopey thinks a double tap video is one like he and ole' Jeffrey used to put together on the island...
This is right. He doesn’t have the cognitive ability left (and was never fully there anyway) to have any clue what is going on.
Handlers = Say yes and sign what they want signed
Bribers = Take payment and give them what they want
MAGAverse bloggers = Give them a soundbite
Legitimate media (or at least what passes for it today) = Listen to the question then deny deny deny
That oatmeal-brained pants-shitter had no clue where he is most of the time.
Seriously. He says so much just, shit, and so many lies there’s no way he can keep up with it all
I saw it, it makes me look bad so it's actually AI. I never ordered or had anything to do with it. Pete is actually in charge of that.
Sound about right?
Or more plausible is he has no idea what he says. What a great America leader. He can do whatever he wants.
You think he actually understands that oR cares? He has people that will take care of that and he will just lie.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN UNREDACTED FILES
Everyone also knows you're only allowed to double tap Zombies.
He also has dementia, he doesn’t remember what he yesterday, today. The amount of times sleepy Trump says stuff and later denies it is nothing new.
He’ll say whatever seems nice in the moment, and then never EVER follow through. That’s his entire life.
He claimed he would absolutely release Epstein files, he said he’d release his tax documents, he said he’d end the Russian war…
All he does is make empty promises. His dumb fuck cult followers just eat his shit like it’s cake.
Precisely. I wonder what the difference was between those two moments and those two women.
Well we saw the ethnicity of the reporter from the “second” moment… any guesses on the ethnicity of the woman in the first moment?
Yes, the first question was asked by an asian-american reporter, the second was asked by a black american reporter.
But more importantly, the first question was an open question that he could just ramble about doing the vaguely good thing, the second question was repeating his statements back to him, holding him to account for what that first answer actually means.
I want a reporter to out of the blue bring up the tax returns to trump again. Maybe it will trip them up if we flood the zone with all the old shut he did
The thing is he sometimes keeps his promises: https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1981458551165112541?s=46
I'm still waiting for those beautiful concepts of his healthcare plan he promised in his first term.
I’ll have a health care plan in two weeks… 2016
I just dont get how in situations like this they dont bring the physical recording of them saying this. After nearly a decade of incessant lies how has the media not caught up that this man is physically incapable of speaking the truth.
The media hasn't shown you guys the video of him praising his own ability to lie, it's from the Apprentice and a boardroom meeting. He goes on a rant about how you should always lie, lie so much you start beliving it yourself.
Literally like, here in the Netherlands Trump's pick for ambassador said there are areas in this country where cars and politicians are set on fire and then claimed he never said this, except the reporter literally had the clip on his phone and Hoekstra just walked away after being proven wrong because there was nothing else he could do. How have American reporters not learned this
because they know trump would go tantrum mode and have them kicked out, possibly even locked up over some BS charge or something
“Mr. President, your memory is terrible as you said this less than 36 hours ago. What else can’t you remember? Are you fit for office?”
I wish they would push him like this but unfortunately it’s probably a bit dangerous. MTG goes against him and she receives death threats, and she was in on the con.
Somethings gotta give.
I thought that his entire first term.
That is part of the job of the media, when they are allowed to do it. Since we allowed the organizations to be bought up by billionaires they are not allowed to do their jobs.
I blame part of this on the fact that law enforcement doesn't treat death threats or threats of violence with enough seriousness. The reason people keep sending death threats to people online is because I cannot think of a single example of "[celebrity]/[politician]/[person in viral video shared on social media] receives massive influx of death threats" has ever lead to a massive influx of arrests for those death threats.
I'm not saying it has never happened, just that I can't think of an example of it ever happening. If you can just threaten someone into submission, and there's no repercussions, and you observe that it is an effective tactic, of course it's going to happen every time enough people are aggrieved because someone said or did something they didn't like.
It's even more guaranteed to happen when you have people who engage in stochastic terrorism by egging people on to do it. Whether it's a president or a podcaster or just someone who runs a Twitter or YouTube account, if you can convince enough of your audience that this person you don't like is bad, and you've got a big enough audience, you can easily funnel a hate mob at that person.
The thing about MTG is that she isn't used to being on this side of the hate mob she has contributed to egging on for so long. And that's not me saying "she deserves it" because that's not my position. It's just recognizing that when you've been standing next to Caesar and cheering on the lion eating people for the past several years, it's gotta be real weird when you're suddenly in the arena, staring down the lion, and Caesar is cheering on the same lion who is growling at you now.
Journalists, even “liberal, mainstream media” ones, are partially to blame for all of this. Have the video queued up or a copy of the transcript and say “no you said this less than 48 hours ago”
No one pushes him or his cronies on their lies, they just bitch about it later
I agree, I watched Kristen Welker interview Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who is the senate intelligence committee chair. She pushed back on the boat strikes and asked him “we don’t kill drug traffickers at the border, so why is it happening to suspected drug boats that may not even be coming to the United States?” We need those questions asked every day to every politician involved in this cluster f*** of a situation.
CNN isn't "liberal, mainstream media," it's conservative media for liberals.
Some WH journalist needs to push it and just say Bullshit or call him out in a press conference. Sure it will be his/her last presser with this administration but he/she would land a job just fine then, after a couple of years, if desired, he/she can rejoin the WH gaggle once the POS is gone
This guy is such an idiot. When his presidency is taught to future generations, I hope they include all of his retractions to statements he made on his own.
Of course he doesn’t want it released. If it is released he loses (or Stephen Miller does, really) his leverage over Drinky Pete.
Three years left in his term and he will get worse and worse every day. He probably won't make it to next summer. And when the blessed day arrives we are going to be treated to an avalanche of republicans who had no idea how sick he was.
He's either so far gone he can't remember, lies like normal people breathe, or is gaslighting the shit out of those women... probably all three because he is a walking misogynistic POS.
Is it the video or is there extra Cheeto dust? And it looks like he missed under the nose. I'm sure that's reserved for something else, but you think he'd touch it up a bit before going on camera. But, yeah, what was I thinking.
It's pretty terrifying to watch an angry, spoiled, entitled, very old man run a country like a child would run a company without a single competent person intervening ☹️
Tired of the gaslighting from this president yet? Fucking stop voting for him, his cronies, his agenda. Weaken his power.
I know he uses orange makeup but geez seems they went out of their way to make him light up an orange light bulb in the beginning of that:)
Why don't we ever see men asking questions?? Also who is still sending female journalists to him?? 🤦♂️ < real facepalm>
Eight years ago I would’ve said he’s just lying, now you don’t know if he’s lying or just forgetting day-to-day, not that it means anything either way.
ABC Evening News showed the video of Trump promising to release the video just before asking him if he would keep his promise. LOL!
It's not backtracking.. it's dementia. He has no idea what he said last week. He has no understanding what he is talking about today.
Here's the Trump's statement the reporter referred to:
Video: https://youtu.be/YCHT9L38xRo
This is a regular occurrence for him. He always denies he said things that were captured on recordings, and his base and followers will agree with him.
I never said that. Does anyone believe a word he says at this point? Looks like we’ll never see the video. Or the perfect MRI.
Watch the movie The Apprentice (actually good) who shows Trump as young and upcoming. He learned that ”Never admit you’re wrong” and instead ”attack attack attack”
Don’t watch it. He gets paid per view.
Haha not this one Im talking about movie about Trump