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senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:35 PM Jun 2025

OMG! This what we used to call a wicked burn in my day.

From this morning's appearance in the Oval Office with the German Chancellor:

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

I know it will surprise no one that the "press" is not covering this in favor of the elon/donnie catfight, but think about what this means for a moment. And what could the Chancellor have been thinking?



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OMG! This what we used to call a wicked burn in my day. (Original Post) senseandsensibility Jun 2025 OP
Trump is a master at stepping in his own shit. C_U_L8R Jun 2025 #1
Stepping on rakes COL Mustard Jun 2025 #59
Your title reminded me of this Klondike Kat Jun 2025 #74
That's hilarious! COL Mustard Jun 2025 #79
trump never ceases to disappoint me Shellback Squid Jun 2025 #2
I wish I was capable of still being disappointed senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #61
Wicked burn, indeed. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #3
I'll wager and say the German press will report it. The US current president is breathtakingly stupid Deuxcents Jun 2025 #4
I'm sure you're right about the German press senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #7
They're probably just intimidated. calimary Jun 2025 #22
Some remarks our supine media seem to have left out, like Trump asking Merz whether he spoke English. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #31
So impressed with the ability senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #56
This seems to be an ability of many 'trans-national' families, who have relatives literally all over Europe, South SWBTATTReg Jun 2025 #78
It wouldn't matter if there as robust explaining and backgrounding.... sdfernando Jun 2025 #12
They get honest news in Europe LittleGirl Jun 2025 #21
I was thinking the same thing. SimplyHadEnough Jun 2025 #49
Maybe this was a weird form of sympathy newdeal2 Jun 2025 #5
Let's have an investigation into... ret5hd Jun 2025 #6
Perfect! senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #10
He is someone who will do or say anything to get noticed. Ping Tung Jun 2025 #8
Wicked burn or beat down, gab13by13 Jun 2025 #9
Will he even understand senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #13
That beat down was nothing DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #24
TSF not only doesn't read, he's totally uneducated. sinkingfeeling Jun 2025 #11
"That was not a great day." Trump thinks defeating the nazis was a bad thing. progressoid Jun 2025 #14
He has no fucking idea what happened that day, he just assumed it was bad Bev54 Jun 2025 #38
Trump is a sucker and a loser. Captain Zero Jun 2025 #71
He is one amazingly stupid man. Biophilic Jun 2025 #15
No shame and limited knowledge? Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #33
They were handpicked by him so they probably are just as senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #58
Open mouth, insert waste ZDU Jun 2025 #16
Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day. He hasn't got a clue. Vinca Jun 2025 #17
What it means, imo: what Merz said would be appreciated by Americans, though it flew right over the felon's head. ancianita Jun 2025 #18
I can't stomach these Oval Office appearances senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #20
Me, neither. But ancianita Jun 2025 #25
All of that just glossed over and basically ignored senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #29
Not all. Which is one reason you found it. We should support journalists, as Rachel says. Just not the corporate press. ancianita Jun 2025 #30
You're right senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #32
Well ancianita Jun 2025 #42
" I just wish...(the press)...would challenge him like the adversaries they are supposed to be" Wednesdays Jun 2025 #81
Job o' The Butt BurnDoubt Jun 2025 #19
Dictionary Quiz Canada Kid Jun 2025 #23
Not a grest day for nazis. Kra,nov showing us who he is. Again! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #26
Trump is actually that stupid and crude. Klarkashton Jun 2025 #27
The Dems got hypnotized after the election of Obama Gum Logger Jun 2025 #43
I didn't. Too much evidence to the contrary. electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #80
"How is it possible that people would have voted for that asshole?" Wednesdays Jun 2025 #82
I cannot fathom having to sit in the same room with kraznov. SheltieLover Jun 2025 #28
That was a love tap from a pair of steel gloves. What an unAmerican President. marble falls Jun 2025 #34
I think you mean "love tap" Alice Kramden Jun 2025 #36
The world celebrates D-Day... EarthAbides Jun 2025 #35
Abso f ing lutely johnnyfins Jun 2025 #48
trump appears to suggest Merz is a Nazi LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #37
In trumps mind that was a bad day for Germany Figarosmom Jun 2025 #39
Chancellor Merz is correct: the survivors of WWII considered themselves liberated by the Allies FakeNoose Jun 2025 #40
It's far too subtle for King Git Warpy Jun 2025 #41
That's what I thought senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #44
"" AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #45
Exceedingly well-done by the German Chancellor! Paladin Jun 2025 #46
These NATO leaders, including the new Canadian leader, run circles around him senseandsensibility Jun 2025 #47
Clueless, and obnoxious. Lucky us. (nt) Paladin Jun 2025 #53
Most excellent malaise Jun 2025 #50
Im sorry, but watch the clip johnnyfins Jun 2025 #51
The amazingly stupid president of the United States never misses a chance GoodRaisin Jun 2025 #52
He doesn't care. His personal "wealth" grows a billion a month... Justice matters. Jun 2025 #60
"What's the big deal about Pearl Harbor?" czarjak Jun 2025 #54
Wutta maroon! Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #55
The only Drumpf/Trump family members serving in Normandy would have been on the cliffs looking down. Norrrm Jun 2025 #57
I'm looking forward to the next cover of Der Spiegel magazine. Aristus Jun 2025 #62
Oh my, YES!!! niyad Jun 2025 #64
Oh, Dear Goddess. The stupid. It burns. Pity it is not fatal. niyad Jun 2025 #63
Trump is such a Dumbass proud patriot Jun 2025 #65
Merz owned him. TACO is clueless. Captain Zero Jun 2025 #72
Like from a sit-com. Typical for The Trump Show. betsuni Jun 2025 #66
Ignorant GAJMac Jun 2025 #67
In Trump's little lizard brain... Dem4life1970 Jun 2025 #68
It is even more simple Kali Jun 2025 #75
Stupid fucking tRump Blue Owl Jun 2025 #69
Trumps dumber that a box of rocks. Covid should had killed that beast. BradBo Jun 2025 #70
Stupidity and hate gademocrat7 Jun 2025 #73
A wicked burn indeed! Martin68 Jun 2025 #76
You're wrong. This was certainly reported by US news. Gimpyknee Jun 2025 #77

COL Mustard

(7,929 posts)
79. That's hilarious!
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jun 2025

I may have gotten the idea from a cartoon, but I’m not sure if it was that one!

Ocelot II

(128,827 posts)
3. Wicked burn, indeed.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:42 PM
Jun 2025

Of course, Trump is too stupid and ignorant of history to understand that Hitler and the Nazis nearly destroyed Germany, and that Hitler's defeat saved it so it could rebuild itself as a functioning democracy.

Deuxcents

(25,348 posts)
4. I'll wager and say the German press will report it. The US current president is breathtakingly stupid
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jun 2025

When foreign dignitaries come to the Oval Office, is there no one to explain a little background or explanation about the occasion or what to say? Who is running this shitshow?

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
7. I'm sure you're right about the German press
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:46 PM
Jun 2025

and probably the European press as a whole. Our press is just as embarrassing as he is the way they ignore it.

calimary

(88,861 posts)
22. They're probably just intimidated.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:15 PM
Jun 2025

“Oh we dare not tell the truth. No telling what he’d do to us/our outlet/our network/our publisher… “

Ocelot II

(128,827 posts)
31. Some remarks our supine media seem to have left out, like Trump asking Merz whether he spoke English.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:45 PM
Jun 2025
– We are all looking for measures and means to end this war. Let me remind you that tomorrow is June 6, the anniversary of D-Day. When the Americans ended a war in Europe. I believe that this is now in your hands, Merz told Trump.

“It wasn't a good day for you,” the American president replied.

– President. It was the liberation of the country from Nazism. We owe you a lot. That is why I say that the United States is now in a strong position to end this war, Merz said after Trump's comment.

Trump also described the war in Ukraine as a bloodbath, while comparing it to a fight between two little children who hate each other.

"Sometimes it's better to just let them fight for a while and then pull them apart," Trump said during the meeting at the White House.

"You see it in hockey, you see it in sports. Let them hold on for a few seconds," Trump continued, acknowledging that "it's probably not going to be pretty."

Merz also asked to say a few words in German during the press conference. When he finished, Trump asked if he could speak English.

– Do you speak English, you speak English so well, but would you say it's as good as your German? Trump asked.

– It's not my native language, but I try to understand everything and speak as best I can, Merz replied.

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/Mnl85E/merz-tatt-imot-av-trump-vi-elsker-tysklands-folk

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
56. So impressed with the ability
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 04:13 PM
Jun 2025

of the European leaders to speak English as well as their native language and probably a few other languages as well. When I taught second grade students, the majority of whom spoke another language at home, I heaped on the praise that they were bilingual. And it wasn't just an empty compliment. I really admired them. When they and their parents knew where I was coming from, they appreciated it and it made our partnership mutually rewarding and beneficial. Sorry, but I still get emotional thinking about the hardships some of my students and their parents had to endure.

SWBTATTReg

(26,001 posts)
78. This seems to be an ability of many 'trans-national' families, who have relatives literally all over Europe, South
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jun 2025

America, and other places. I always loved the multiple mixing of cultures, and the different languages...my deceased Ex spoke six languages (father was German, grandparents were Italian, German, Peruvian, English, and a little South American indian dialect. I can't remember all of the languages, but it was sure something else, and everything we had an event at the house, I would meet people from all over the world at the house.

I loved it! Definitely proved that America is the original and ongoing melting pot of the world. Something that so many seem to forget, amongst the hate and vitriol that tRUMP and his losers spew out nonstop.

sdfernando

(6,007 posts)
12. It wouldn't matter if there as robust explaining and backgrounding....
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jun 2025

taco felon would never retain it in that tiny pea-brain of his.

LittleGirl

(8,939 posts)
21. They get honest news in Europe
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:15 PM
Jun 2025

Lived there for almost 15 years. Our "news" is disgusting.

SimplyHadEnough

(83 posts)
49. I was thinking the same thing.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jun 2025

Did no one prep him or is he too stupid to be prep?🤦‍♀️

ret5hd

(22,125 posts)
6. Let's have an investigation into...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:44 PM
Jun 2025

exactly WHAT ideologies are being taught in these high-end private schools.

D-Day was a bad day?
Democracy is bad?
Strong men are good?

Let’s pull some textbooks and see what exactly is being taught in these places.

Ping Tung

(4,121 posts)
8. He is someone who will do or say anything to get noticed.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:47 PM
Jun 2025

He's like the 4 year old who pull down his pants and burst into laughter at a funeral.

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
13. Will he even understand
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jun 2025

that he was burned or "beat down" (love it!)? I really doubt it. The folks on FAUX and friends would have to explain it to him very slowly.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
24. That beat down was nothing
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:34 PM
Jun 2025

compared to the way the German Chancellor confronted Trump on the Russia/Ukraine War..........

Bev54

(13,152 posts)
38. He has no fucking idea what happened that day, he just assumed it was bad
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:58 PM
Jun 2025

The moron know no history at all, except that which he makes up for himself.

Biophilic

(6,379 posts)
15. He is one amazingly stupid man.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jun 2025

Every time he holds one of these press meetings with a world leader he comes off as a borish, uneducated thug. He can’t help himself. I don’t know why the people who work for him don’t die of embarrassment.

ancianita

(42,763 posts)
18. What it means, imo: what Merz said would be appreciated by Americans, though it flew right over the felon's head.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:09 PM
Jun 2025

No wonder the press won't cover it.

Thank you for the post!

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
20. I can't stomach these Oval Office appearances
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:15 PM
Jun 2025

with foreign leaders for many reasons, so I didn't hear the whole thing. But it seems like the Chancellor was a little surprised that trump was not mentioning the anniversary of D-Day since it is tomorrow. And every other US President before him would have used this opportunity to do so.

ancianita

(42,763 posts)
25. Me, neither. But
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:35 PM
Jun 2025

what these Oval Office meetings force the press to show is the stark difference in Western leadership, which is good, because the felon needs to be contrasted with NATO leadership -- they find they can use him as their foil to counter Russian narratives skulking around the EU, and
because youth (though they've read history) have known little else in their lives but media's sane-washing of stupidity and lawless drama.

They're also an opportunity for us to see that our allies have not forgotten Americans and their FDR democracy.

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
29. All of that just glossed over and basically ignored
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:41 PM
Jun 2025

by our "journalists" unfortunately. I know I sound like a broken record but they are absolutely FAILING in their duty to inform the public.

ancianita

(42,763 posts)
30. Not all. Which is one reason you found it. We should support journalists, as Rachel says. Just not the corporate press.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:44 PM
Jun 2025

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
32. You're right
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:47 PM
Jun 2025

I actually read about this on a bluesky post from the Bulwark. But I just wish that more of the press assigned to cover trump (the WH Press Corps) would challenge him like the adversaries they are supposed to be. And it would also be great if they wouldn't display their double standard by changing into mild mannered access journalists as soon as he took office. I admire many journalists out there, but not them.

ancianita

(42,763 posts)
42. Well
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:11 PM
Jun 2025

here's the thing. We can wish all we want but have to face the reality that the WH press corps is HIS hand picked
press corps, nothing but ditto head corporate lap dogs who sane wash his stupidity. They're not real journalists since they don't care about truth and facts, just their owners and paychecks.

Sure, it would be great if they resisted him, but we still have an honest press corps of journalists. And the 1st Amendment exists so that he can't go after them.

Because of them and law firms like the pro-Democratic Elias Group, we know he's already lost 96% of his cases, and in a country as big as this one, it will take time for that fact to give his regretting voters a reason to vote differently in 2026. You can tell his corporate press are worried, which is why they cover his front men like Hawley, so they can use a loyalist to back up his attacks on the judiciary and judges. We're fighting them in those congressional meetings.

Our allied leaders visit because they still back the Democrats; they know they're the long term beneficiaries of the Democratic Project that produced a free West. We should still have hope driving our politics, because fear, hopelessness and despair are what the Koch oligarch network want the People to feel. And I know you know this because you posted what Merz said. So thanks.

Wednesdays

(21,543 posts)
81. " I just wish...(the press)...would challenge him like the adversaries they are supposed to be"
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:40 PM
Jun 2025

Remember Helen Thomas? She passed before TSF came on the scene, but if she were around today, she'd have skewered him alive.

 

Canada Kid

(257 posts)
23. Dictionary Quiz
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:17 PM
Jun 2025

Look up STUPID DUMBASS MORON in the dictionary....and the word TRUMP is printed beside it!!

Klarkashton

(4,647 posts)
27. Trump is actually that stupid and crude.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:41 PM
Jun 2025

How is it possible that people would have voted for that asshole?

Gum Logger

(321 posts)
43. The Dems got hypnotized after the election of Obama
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:18 PM
Jun 2025

into thinking America was post racial. Dems then did not prepare for the blowback from the election of the first nonwhite president.

electric_blue68

(25,615 posts)
80. I didn't. Too much evidence to the contrary.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 06:41 PM
Jun 2025

And President Obama getting like 300% more death threats than any previous President! DUHH!

Wednesdays

(21,543 posts)
82. "How is it possible that people would have voted for that asshole?"
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jun 2025

Two words: Fox News.

It's not the only reason, but a huge chunk of it.

SheltieLover

(76,123 posts)
28. I cannot fathom having to sit in the same room with kraznov.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:41 PM
Jun 2025

I guess that's 1 reason world leaders make the big bucks.

Do they have to bring coloring books to set out their countrys' positions?

Gawd what an embarrassment!

marble falls

(70,446 posts)
34. That was a love tap from a pair of steel gloves. What an unAmerican President.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:47 PM
Jun 2025

Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:21 PM - Edit history (1)

EarthAbides

(413 posts)
35. The world celebrates D-Day...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 02:48 PM
Jun 2025

but, the fascist pig worships Hitler, so D-Day was/is a horrible day in his eyes.

Figarosmom

(9,642 posts)
39. In trumps mind that was a bad day for Germany
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:02 PM
Jun 2025

He thinks 🇩🇪 Germany WAS BETTER OFF UNDER HITLER.

FakeNoose

(39,999 posts)
40. Chancellor Merz is correct: the survivors of WWII considered themselves liberated by the Allies
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:10 PM
Jun 2025

Germany lost an entire generation of men to the horrors and destruction of World War II. But it was children and womenfolk who survived when the dust finally settled, and most of them were rooting for the Allies to liberate them. Not many Nazis were left, few survived the last battles, many were taken prisoner by the Soviets, others killed themselves, or else ran off when they found a chance to do so.

Since Chump never studied history, and he has no empathy for anyone but himself, it's beyond his reasoning. D-Day is an important day in Germany, and all of western Europe. Not that Chump would ever understand or care.

Warpy

(114,363 posts)
41. It's far too subtle for King Git
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:11 PM
Jun 2025

or any of his glassy eyed thralls. Maybe one or two people in the Oval Office will realize he's been insulted but King Git will never get it,

Chancellor Merz has nothing to fear.

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
44. That's what I thought
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:23 PM
Jun 2025

but the WH press corps should at least be commenting on it. Can you imagine the headlines if Biden ever did that?

Paladin

(32,208 posts)
46. Exceedingly well-done by the German Chancellor!
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:28 PM
Jun 2025

And yet another piss-poor, embarrassing comment from trump. How predictable...

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
47. These NATO leaders, including the new Canadian leader, run circles around him
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:30 PM
Jun 2025

and are subtle enough that he doesn't even know what hit him.

johnnyfins

(3,385 posts)
51. Im sorry, but watch the clip
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:39 PM
Jun 2025

TSF is asking him sarcastically about it being a pleasant day. And then he thumb points at him as he looks away laughing. TSF was trying to make it look like the German President was being ungrateful.

GoodRaisin

(10,697 posts)
52. The amazingly stupid president of the United States never misses a chance
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jun 2025

to show the world how clueless he is.

Justice matters.

(9,281 posts)
60. He doesn't care. His personal "wealth" grows a billion a month...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:01 PM
Jun 2025

and nobody is doing anything to stop him from profiting off the Presidency of the United States.

czarjak

(13,421 posts)
54. "What's the big deal about Pearl Harbor?"
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 04:00 PM
Jun 2025

Asked the “Knows More Than The Generals” impervious imbecile. In 2021. I like presidents that know America’s history.

Norrrm

(3,872 posts)
57. The only Drumpf/Trump family members serving in Normandy would have been on the cliffs looking down.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 04:27 PM
Jun 2025

The only Drumpf/Trump family members serving in Normandy would have been on the cliffs looking down.

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!

Aristus

(71,536 posts)
62. I'm looking forward to the next cover of Der Spiegel magazine.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:43 PM
Jun 2025

They will no doubt let Trump have it in some very thoughtful artwork.

Dem4life1970

(1,039 posts)
68. In Trump's little lizard brain...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 09:14 PM
Jun 2025

...he thinks that a German Chancellor would automatically have sympathy for Trump's idol Adolf.

In reality, a German Chancellor in today's Germany most likely views WWII the way Lincoln viewed the Civil War.

Unlike Trump, they don't think there are "very fine people on both sides."

Kali

(56,592 posts)
75. It is even more simple
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:47 AM
Jun 2025

His whole perspective is win-lose. the Germans lost. that's all he sees. he has no more subtle or complex understanding than that.

gademocrat7

(11,785 posts)
73. Stupidity and hate
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 06:40 AM
Jun 2025

were on full display. CF acted like the buffoon he is. The German Chancellor was dignified and intelligent.

Martin68

(26,940 posts)
76. A wicked burn indeed!
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:36 AM
Jun 2025

But also a remarkable look into the "mind" of a man who seems to think Germany was better off under Hitler and his Nazis.

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