Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

I've watched the best satellite images, pictures so clear you folks have never seen, but I can see them. I'm the president. And you know what? The Homus is open! They lied. There's still water. They haven't drained it. There's no wall like the beautiful border wall I've built that keeps drugs and murderers and rapists out of our wonderful country. People taking away jobs too, so many jobs. To me it looks like it's open. I'm not an expert on this, but many experts have told me I know more than many of them. And you know what, if there is one thing you can believe from those scientists, it's that. The way is free. Shell or Texaco or what is the name, they should just start their engines and drive those beautiful ships to us. Then prices will go down even more. They are down already because of me. Biden put them up, I brought them back down. Soon gas will probably be free. Maybe you're evwn getting some money with it, wouldn't that be nice. Then those electric car people would stand there with their mouths open. Baaaaah. Those electrics. I wonder what they do at night when their magical fake solar things don't work. Have you seen those? Boy they are ugly. Just like those new wind mills. Somebody ought to bring them down. Maybe I will do that. Or my beautiful people will do it on their own. I would not put anybody in prison for destryoing those horrible things. So horrible.

That "It'll work itself out" comment really shows his entitlement. He's so used to all his dipshittery being generally covered/recovered by other people, he thinks that's just how things work naturally.

And I am SURE those tariff checks are in the mail!

Which was just staggeringly dumb, considering he should have rode that patriotic wave for all it was worth. Its news coverage was all sunshine, rainbows, historic this, incredible achievement that. It would have been sooo easy to jump on that bandwagon. Hell, I expected him to *take credit* for Artemis II, not try to divert attention from it to his massive failure of a war.

Very likely. Or as a reaction to how much bad press the war + gas $ they are getting. He is that clueless to think he can fix it... with a rambling, nonsensical address, with no point and did nothing to address any kind of cause/s for this BS war.

Fun fact: The term for this is "jerk" which also applies here!

“So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.” “What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?” “Yeah” “Wow, that’s messed up”

Decades ago I saw a housing development put up a billboard that never should have passed QC: ", where every day is better than the next!".

Plus he was tired from raging about how his MAGA-friendly SCOTUS seems quite skeptical of his illegally declared birthright citizenship.

I believe he also had a faith leaders event in which he spoke a lot, too. That's their mistake. They need to let him sleep all day if he has to make a nightly live appearance.

Some of them whine that they've been 'betrayed'.

They’re straight up cheering for this c*** over on the conservative sub.

The whole "oh i didn't know" crowd.... like what?! His first term was a disaster and they thought he deserved a second chance because "he learned from his first term".

They saw how uneducated their former colony's (the Philippines) population is and how you can control democratic elections though disinformation, popularity, and intimidation. That uneducation, small community mindset (tribalism), with religious fanaticism works well in remote areas like the red states.

Trump is a bad guy. But my hate is not with him. He's refreshingly honest in how bad he is (see John Edwards for how to hide it well) and he's far from the first. I will never forgive the trump voters, even the 2016 ones.

Anything bad that has happened was Musk’s fault, Noemi’s fault, Hegseth’s fault, everybody’s fault except Trump’s

I’d also argue it was a law enforcement failure, but also a judicial failure and a political failure. It’s not upto a minority of the *eligible* voting population to hold criminals to account. > * Robert Hanssen, Russian FBI spy > > Arrested February 2001, Sentenced May 2002. > * Jack Teixeira, Airforce document leaker > > Arrested April 2023, Sentenced March 2024 > * Donald Trump, Russian spy AND document leaker > > *crickets*

Let's not forget about the baby killing.

Rather than arrest him, Americans let him crash the world economy and possibly start world war 3. Great work USA

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As should all the enablers.

The Trump crime family are finally actual billionaires, fulfilling Big Daddy's only ambition, but the game isn't over. My own opinion is that the money that created today's GOP and called forth this golem will take my country down, and other countries will probably not learn what they should from that. After all, fascism is making a comeback in Germany, a country that should know better than any other not to allow it again. But all of us old dinosaurs are dying, and the young will get their chance to get it right or screw it up again. I don't really expect to live long enough to find out.

He hasn't been burned yet. He's still acting above the law and had faced no consequences for his actions. 

He's been swimming naked, and it looks like the tide's going out.

Seriously there is far too much deference given to this unhinged public official simply due to what, some misplaced sense of decorum that he himself has attacked over the last 10 years.

Media has been sane washing him since 2016. They'll never stop in their efforts to "both sides" every f****** issue they can.

Jake Tapper who wrote that whole shitty book about Biden being old has been more concerned with attacking Hasan than the countless things that actually matter happening in the US

You know, this is why we need something like the Prime Ministers minutes from the British Parliament. You have to face the opposition on a regular basis and be able to think on your feet.

What’s been going on in Venezuela lately? It’s like we attacked them, took their president, and then I’ve heard very little

That’s exactly what I read too. How are people still writing articles like this after more than a decade? The question isn’t “should he give this speech?”, it’s “how do we get out of this mess?”

Right. I consider myself a ten-year Donald Trump critic. My media diet is full of people critical of Trump. Not one was demanding him provide a "comprehensive explanation for the war". Because that gives him way too much credit.

A decade later, people still expect him “pivot to being presidential” as if time never existed

Maybe we're finally reaching the point where the "centrists" in this country will stop giving Trump good boy points for just being able to stand upright for a few minutes and not visibly shit all over himself. A girl can dream.

Yup. Sane washing at it's finest to imply this speech wasn't exactly what we've come to expect.

I'm a pretty hateful northern neighbour over the last year, but yes, I still expected something today... Anything. This was particularly weak honestly.

Brezhnev lasted a long time like that. >The Kremlin leader suffered from overwork, stress, and insomnia, and made ‘a pact’ in the early 1970s with one of the nurses to supply him with strong sedatives. Nobody, even KGB’s Andropov, dared to break up this fateful agreement, and strong drugs gradually and irrevocably ruined Brezhnev’s brain. So much for the bad dentistry. >At first, Brezhnev’s malaise was visible only to a narrow circle – although Kissinger and Nixon noticed his bizarre shifts from drowsiness to excitement. Brezhnev’s attention span shortened and his grasp of detail began to slip; he began to blabber nonsense on television. Even his character changed as he became peevish and impervious to reason. He collapsed at a summit with Gerald Ford in Vladivostok in December 1974. At the helm of a nuclear power was a drug addict who had lost the ability to critically evaluate his own condition. But it took him 8 more years to die. And he also launched the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Seen this a lot sadly. Dementia patients can linger in a plateau state for a long time but when they crash the fall can be very quick and steep. Problem is Trump is so isolated that we would likely never this happen as this would necessitate the 25th being invoked. So i expect they will keep it VERY hush hush. We need to listen for rumors that Vance is getting a lot of visitors or Trump disappears from public view for a while. When Trump stops doing live events and instead it is only seen in prerecorded videos, which can be made easily with AI, you will know something is up. edit spelling

I think he was trying to come off as 'stoic' unfortunately its not possible for him

As a New Yorker I’ve despised him for a long time, but holy shit, when you watch back to the footage from 2016 he seems like a completely different person. Weak, tired, disorientated

Often it helps those speeches if you didn't just start the war for no reason at all.  That makes it harder to generate enthusiasm to go kill people.

Three times.  Three fing times with this rapist.