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.
attempts to end wars in Gaza
huh?
He probably told Netanyahu to please stop it, it’s hurting my PR now, and was shocked when he said no
Yes, unironically.
For those not aware:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire
Sabotaging peace deals on conflicts that are causing Democrats grief is a standard Republican play.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172324/its-settled-reagan-campaign-delayed-release-iranian-hostages
Trump very clearly though it was his turn to play rat-fucking war criminal, but he doesn’t understand that every other leader thinks he’s a joke.
I can tell this is fake news because it implies trump has friends.
The only hope I have is a coup.
Impeachment isn’t enough
French style coup
Beaucoup de coupes
And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.
That’s how Fascism works.
Wouldn’t be wild to say that there’s some dementia and cognitive decline going on with Trump. I’m not saying this as a joke or insult, the guy is seriously behaving randomly and people around his are too scared to disagree.
It’s definitely possible. We may just be seeing his true self more though
It wouldn’t be wild, it’d be accurate. The man has dementia. I’m on mobile and not inclined to tap out all of the indicators, but remember when he abruptly stopped speaking at a campaign rally, and just kind of swayed to his music playlist for 39 minutes, or when he described in detail the literal, giant faucet in British Columbia that he seemed to think that Canada uses to control water to the West Coast? (Or the literal dome over Israel?) Both losing track of time and losing the ability to process metaphorical speech are symptoms of dementia. Why else would his doctors have administered that cognitive test that he bragged that he aced?
Symptoms
Dementia symptoms vary depending on the cause. Common symptoms include:
Cognitive changes
Memory loss, which is usually noticed by someone else.
Problems communicating or finding words.
Trouble with visual and spatial abilities, such as getting lost while driving.
Problems with reasoning or problem-solving.
Trouble performing complex tasks.
Trouble with planning and organizing.
Poor coordination and control of movements.
Confusion and disorientation.
Psychological changes
Personality changes.
Depression.
Anxiety.
Agitation.
Inappropriate behavior.
Being suspicious, known as paranoia.
Seeing things that aren’t there, known as hallucinations.
Like when no one wants to take Grandpa’s car keys.
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.
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.
he wouldn’t have a lot else left in his life.
He would still have his diapers.
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?
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…
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I mean, it’s worked for him in the private sector. Didn’t scale up.
“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.
Let the fucker rage. Get that blood pressure up … one can only hope for a heart attack.
his blood is mostly DIET COKE anyways.
A stroke would be better. Just enough that he can’t talk, but still understands enough to see it all ebbing away.
It would be!
I despise this man so much that I went through the logistics of how I could piss on his grave in the future. It involved bottling the piss and wearing a MAGA hat to get close if needed. I’m embarrassed about how petty I am, but there it is.
“Friends”
He had so many ways of consolidating his grasp on his realm without looking like a total buffoon. That alone gives me hope.
The one thing that might save us is the MAGA obsession with forcing their virtuosic incompetence on everything and everyone. Their inevitable failure is built into their system.
Meanwhile, anyone with competence and experience is now playing for the opposing team, so if the Dems can manage to regain power, they will have a deep bench to draw from.
A very Fisherian / žižekian critique. Aptly said.
Trump doesn’t have friends; he has lackeys and people who want to gain something by getting in his favor. Others follow and agree with him out of fear of retaliation.
I love how people are upset that the democrats aren’t doing anything.
First they have minorities in the house and senate and don’t have the presidency so their powers are severely limited but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
I think the sentiment is that, by allowing the administration to continue making blunders, they are helping the democratic party in the long-term, but people are being hurt in the short-term.
I understand that their hands are tied, but a large swath of the public is furious and want their fury to be echoed by their representatives.
All that said, you could say pretty much the same thing happened from the maga pov back in 2012, and that’s how we got into this mess.
This works in a functioning society where court orders are followed, laws are followed, institutions aren’t gutted and the executive isn’t seizing control of elections. Sure in normal times let them hang themselves.
But this time is different. Even if the maga cult turns, they actually aren’t affected by bad policy, blunders, unconstitutionality, economy, polling … They’re in and they’re in for life unless they’re removed by force
but also why stop MAGA when they’re fucking up this badly?
Hey imagine if you had a baby inside you, and then something catastrophic happened and the failed pregnancy now was threatening your life.
Now imagine you heard someone saying some dumb shit like you are now saying while you were wondering if your doctor was going to be able to operate on you before it was too late as you sit waiting to get close enough to death to be saved…
Now imagine the Democrats over decades and decades pretending like they were going to fight to stop this kind of insane cruelty towards women, raised countless amounts of money on that narrative, and then proceeded to do next to NOTHING to stop the overturning of Roe V. Wade, to put the brakes on ths descent into fascism at all?
Now shut the fuck up.
You can do this thought experiment from the perspective of an immigrant who has watched the Democratic party totally adopt a rightwing framing on immigration and lean into dehumanizing immigrants, but they would talk about it in a nicer way… (I mean look at Biden’s record on immigration, it is downright conservative)… and imagine right now you hear someone saying something like you just did as the entire country collapses into a crisis over whether immigrants should be treated like human beings or not.
The place to fight was to never accept these horrendous framings that are so twisted they are violent threats to our loved ones and the people that make up our communities, shame on you for having the smallness of vision to see how badly the Democrats failed and are failing to meet this moment by and large.
No, there is so much more they could have done and they could be doing, and many of them aren’t because they are actually fine with this along with every damn Republican.
I voted Harris not Trump or not voting at all.
I think your anger is misplaced.
Ok, good! My point is imagine being someone scared, directly at bodily threat right now, and hearing someone else casually remark on the internet right now “well, why would we stop the Republicans when they are fucking up so bad?”.
This is the kind of thing that makes people hate you, people are DYING RIGHT NOW. Yes, I know that is because of the other side making things horrifically bad, but that doesn’t give you the right to be flippant about it, to not resist in any way you can, and most importantly not to consider the lives of people who can’t just wait it out as Republicans continue to destroy their lives and kill them.
People voted this in.
This is what the majority of the voters want so what good is resisting going to do now?
That is the words of a coward if I have ever heard one
Ok, but he’s @satansmaggotycumfart is not totally wrong. People DID sit this out. However, the broader question I have is how fragile the US democratic experiment is. If all it takes for one election cycle for people to sit out, then the flame of democracy was never very strong to begin with. Checks and balances are all but gone at this point…
I’d prefer to be called a realist cowards are the eighty million that decided not to vote.
Oh? You aren’t one of those cowards that prefers to be called a coward?
This is insane.
Even if this was actually what people wanted, how do you just roll over for fascism? What fucking bizarre outlook.
This isn’t tit for tat, left of center versus right of center boring politics. We’re not getting fair elections anymore, and it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
it wouldn’t matter if 99% of the people voted their rights away, doesn’t mean I have to surrender mine peacefully
Do you only believe in a democracy if you agree with it?
If the majority vote is a suicide pact that they’re going to drag you into as well, do you just let it happen or do you fight?
Mind you, I’m not saying that Trump got in by any democratic process. It’s more the result of crime, propaganda and expoliting defects in an old, creaky system.
True Leaders would be out on the streets, galvanizing a scared, angry but rudderless public…
Like Bernie, AOC are. But that’s too much work, they gotta vote yes on what Trump wants and ship more weapons to Israel!
They are. How many have you attended? Walz has been doing a bunch of events. Corey Booker spoke for over 24 hours on the senate floor. AOC and Bernie are having tons of meetings.
You could organize one yourself.
So the 5% of Democrats who are progressive are doing something?
Booker’s speech was a stunt that resulted in nothing. And Bernie is out there fighting, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that he isn’t a Democrat.
I wish I could, But I’m Australian…
Then I applaud your online discourse. Trump is going to cause a worldwide disruption, and even tho this is the fault of a bunch of fuckwit Americans, it’s important to focus on what we can do.
There is a saying to the effect “that when America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold”. Any non American who isn’t interested in affairs in America, especially now, is ignorant and obtuse. We are all being affected.
Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
90% of them just roll over because they love power more than standing up for what’s right.
Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
If this was on every post they’d downvote until you get banned. They hate any criticism because the other guy is worse. Even when they agree on the same goals, just slightly different methods.
My circle jerk proves me right every time too, and is all the proof I need.
Thanks bestie
🤗
Because they don’t only fuck maga they fuck the world and it will take years to build the unfucking back
“friends” 🤣
What are the chances of him being booted out via 25th Amendment in the next six months?
It might buy JD just enough time to prevent the Republicans being utterly wiped out in the mid-terms…
I will now gaze wistfully into the near distance and contemplate life under the more competent evil.
More competent but significantly less likeable for the bade. Trump slides by with what passes as charisma to stupid people, but vance is such a bitch that I can’t imagine them rallying around him.
I hear that, but would also consider the monied interests would like more stability, and would ease the rallying behind Vance… probably.
I’m not sure he’s much more competent, especially when it comes to successfully undoing the damage just enough to keep the GOP in power, by the skin of their teeth, whilst still grifting everything that isn’t welded down.
That, and he doesn’t and likely will never have the cult of personality.
I’d wager that once he who shall not be named is removed from office, the rest of the party will implode into a self-interested factional civil war.
Vance’s part in bullying Zelenskyy and the absolute clusterfuck that was the result of his attempt at a charm offensive in support of seizing Greenland, indicate that he may be marginally more articulate than Trump, but is just as incompetent and just as much blinded by his own ego and dogmatism.
Maybe. There’s clearly hidden power behind the throne. The orange face at the Resolute Desk has never been this disciplined about following an agenda in his life, and that change is not one of the known side-effects of dementia. Those people in the shadows might be able to replace him with a different useful idiot like, say, Joe Rogan.
What are the chances of him being booted out via 25th Amendment in the next six months?
Almost nil. They don’t have the votes unless the Dems are even more supine than they already are. If the VP and come cabinet members declare him unfit, Trump can oppose that by writing a letter saying that no, he’s OK. Then it takes 2/3 majority in both houses to remove him. He’d have to be comatose or non-verbally gaga in order for the 25th to be triggered, at least according to the intent of the amendment.
Maybe everybody is just tired from all the winning?
