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.
And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.
Fred Trump’s dementia is the gift he gave his son Donald and the American people. Seriously outside of a couple people that whole family is a net drain on humanity
Carry on with the negative press about the fucking neo-Nazi filled GOP. Fuck them.
Obviously nonsense. He doesn’t have any friends.
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.
All he has to do is not drive the car off the cliff but noooooo
This is going to be an even more interesting time in the coming weeks. When animals are cornered, things get very ugly. And we’re beyond ugly already with almost half of Project 2025 implemented already.
How does this old ass dude have so much goddamn energy? I am in my PRIME and I need naps.
It’s not like he really does anything except golfs, eats McDonald’s, possibly gropes or sexually assaults young girls (some habits are hard to break - grab them by the pussy right?). He doesn’t read, doesn’t think - he basically signs whatever heritage foundation and his rich friends put in front of him to sign.
For all the time he spends golfing, it’s amazing how bad he is at it.
Stimulants. Where do you think Jr. gets it from?
How do I get some and what are they called? 🤣
Most likely ADHD meds. They will keep you up and running for awhile. He will eventually fall to time though, like we all do.
“Nothing fucks you harder than time.” -Davos Seaworth
Drugs. Adderall, mostly.
Hate.
What negative press? His supporters are all in. They’re brigading every online message board and spamming about how this is great for the country.
Those are bots. The majority of MAGA supporters probably don’t even remember their account passwords.
I wish I could believe this. I’ve made the mistake of engaging with them on MSN and it’s a full blown Jonestown style cult. They are ready to lose everything for Trump.
May they soon lose everything, especially if the fallout of their loses enriches the rest of us, or at least doesn’t hurt us much. I want to bathe in the their tears.
It’d do us all a world of good if they hurried up and got to the endgame.
I don’t have the link, but I read somewhere that this was actually part of the Project 2025 plan, to use sockpuppet accounts and bots to drown online discourse and prevent anyone messaging that hurts the movement from picking up steam and going viral. (Althougj the strategy is probably different on platforms they control, like Twitter and maybe Reddit)
I could certainly see this being something they’re doing. Flooding the zone to give the impression of support. The problem with right wing rhetoric is that it’s very attractive to the uninformed. It’s really really easy to be a racist, for example. It’s much harder to instill empathy.
I think it’s working. Right as people were finally leaving Twitter during the election season and moving to Lemmy, Blue sky, mastodon, threads, etc. The election was already in full swing. So support on the left was fractured and disconnected from the main spaces where it would reach normal folks. Twitter, Truth Social, and Facebook remained strong and their message was everywhere all the time.
What do we do to stop it though? Grass roots grow Lemmy into something respectable? By the time it gets popular enough to matter, the right will invade and corrupt it.
you and i know the answer. guns. there has to be a purge or this never gets better.
That, and also detrumpification. Anyone associated with MAGA banned from elective office and government jobs for life, all their assets seized, and a complete rollback of every executive order, law, pardon and appointment that happened while Trump has been in power.
After reading the article I found it quite amusing the fact he is disappointed his allies have not supported him
That’s how the rest of the world feels
Especially since in his case “support” means unconditional loyalty and subservience.
It will end up like brexit. Most people who voted for him will stay in the sect no matter what. When enough people finally switch to hand power back to the democrats it will be too late to simply reverse most of what Trump did and slow rebuilding will start. If Democrats elect competent leaders they will actually fix things. If not they will just continue working with what Trump left for them (like with Starmer)
and slow rebuilding will start.
And then Democratic voters will get complacent, or get all pissy about how their pet project for change isn’t getting enough attention fast enough, and not vote the next time leading to a Republican getting back in office BECAUSE SURELY THAT WILL HELP THEIR FUCKING PRECIOUS INTERESTS. It worked out so~ well this past Fall, didn’t it? Nothing at all~ to be concerned about, worried about, uncertain about, or terrified about now.
If Democrats elect competent leaders
Pelosi and Schumer, and all their fanbois (people listening to them even when they aren’t in office), would need to go.
I wonder just how bad things will have to get for a most people to vote.
I can only hope that democrats learn that no matter how bad the republican candidate is or how bad their outward plans they need to run a popular person.
It’s been proven there is not a Republican candidate bad enough to make people vote for their interests.
Brexit is like herpes. It just keeps on giving.
I’m supposing this dumbfuck really thought he was going to get praise for this?
The problem is that he’s been safely ensconced in a bubble his entire fucking life. He’s Patient Zero when it comes to rich white failsons failing upwards, FFS.
yeah some progressive senator/rep was saying this was actually 10d chess on trump’s part to extract concessions from industries in exchange for tariff relief, and, maybe, but also, you know, there is the other explanation
If, by “concessions,” they meant bribes, that might be true.
this was actually 10d chess on trump’s part to extract concessions
It’s called a shakedown. Instead of actually talking to someone, start by threatening them then extract concessions. Best deal maker ever
All he must do is explain the logic behind the decision using real economic concepts and theories. We’re all keenly aware of why he isn’t doing that.
The orange cunt would have an aneurysm if only the “Press” actually treated him fairly. Instead they sane wash his bullshit, and tiptoe around him without ever using the words “Liar”, “convicted felon” or “rapist”… The press have never treated anyone so favorably, and still he whines and cries like a stuck little pig. He gets $1 billion free publicity every single day. Fuck him with a cactus. No lube ! Edit: And fuck the press! They are responsible for Drumpf!
MSM heavily benefited from trump being center of attention, and most of them are owned by conservatives anyways. just like fb, youtube, reddit right wing gaffes drives traffic.
Time to make their actions criminal imo, although that is just a pipedream currently. They are all traitors.
If we ever get out of this mess and have our own version of the Nuremberg trials I hope to see many media execs and on-air personalities (obviously especially but not limited to those of Fox News) hanged for their part in all of this.
Amen, bro !
Leave the poor cactus out of this. This is why man invented angle grinders.
a cholla cactus.
Mea culpa! I bow to the almighty angle grinders!
Will no one rid us of this turbulent moron?
Time will. Just not soon enough.
Nobody knows with certainty how long anyone will live.
