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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    The fact that McHitler hasn’t stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.

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      Maybe God isnt all powerful and is forced to watch all she made kill itself over and over in ever more savage ways.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      My dad is 60 and has had a stroke in Janurary. He’s far from perfect, but he’s been a good role model for me, made me a better person, and helped me when I realized my mom was more insane each passing day.

      This fucker is the oldest one, looks worse, is angry 24/7, and hasn’t had one.

      Life is a cruel joke.

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      God realized they fucked up with all us uppity hyper-hierarchical monkeys and is going for a hard reset, or never existed. Change my mind.

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        If god, in the christian, all-knowing and all-powerful sense even exists, she must fucking hate us, because she allowed Drumf to happen. I could never venerate a god who is that callous and spiteful.

        • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

          St. George Carlin

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        hes a low-level demon escaped from hell, anti-christ would have been able to warp reality one of the key feature of its powers

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      Maybe who you think god is is all wrong? Maybe it’s the other guy or girl or it who’s really in charge.

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      Been thinking about that myself, with my shitty religious upbringing. This is what god wants. And, if you’re Jewish and you’ve at least heard the phrase “god’s chosen people,” I just wonder how you square that with one of the worst people to live having killed 6 million of them. God was really looking out for the chosen people that day, let me tell ya…

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      Around 13,000 children under the age of 5 die every day. I’d love to see god explain that lol

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        Lucifer: I’m not in the business of murdering innocent children. That’s God’s jurisdiction.

        - The Devil’s Carnival

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        “We didn’t start the fire. It’s always been burning since the world’s been turning…”

        God: “No, yeah, that was me. I started it. Flicked over the first domino. Still watching the picture unfold. Quite the sight, wish you could see it.”

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    His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered?

    What plans? He’s not even tried to do either one in even a meaningless, symbolic way.

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      His plans were to reward the aggressors and try to grab a piece of the carcass from the other vultures.

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      For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I’m sure he’s still trying though.

      I’m so tired of all the “reasonable language” used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that’s me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.

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        his son-in law of his daughter he lusts, kushner has planned real estate there too.

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      His plan was to pressure them the way he’s used to pressuring people in his business dealings. The only problem is that countries like Ukraine aren’t just businesses that he can stiff, drag to court, etc.

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      I’m so fucking tired of the incessant sane-washing. Just constant gaslighting from all sides to make me feel crazy for freaking out about this shit. I’m sick of it

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    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

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    He had so many ways of consolidating his grasp on his realm without looking like a total buffoon. That alone gives me hope.

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      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.

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    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.

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    And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.

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      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.

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        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?

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    oh sure…it’s a ‘press’ problem

    can only shine a pile of shit for only so long, Donald.

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    I’m not American but, from what I’ve seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.

    Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.

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    Thing is, he’s not doing anything. He’s just riding the train. He doesn’t understand or care about the stuff the people around him are doing. He believed them when they said it would make him beloved.

    He’s just an idiot snake oil salesman.

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    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!

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      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.

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        Time to make their actions criminal imo, although that is just a pipedream currently. They are all traitors.

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          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.

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        What about providing him gympie-gympie toilet paper?

        D. moroides is notorious for its extremely painful sting which may leave victims suffering for weeks or even months. It is reputed to be the most venomous plant in Australia, if not the world.

        The trichomes stay in the skin for up to a year, and release the toxin cocktail into the body during triggering events such as touching the affected area, contact with water, or temperature changes.