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Miles Archer

(24,676 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:08 PM Monday

You're President, Iran won't "make a deal" with you, your slush fund's terminated, WHAT'S YOUR NEXT LOGICAL MOVE?

Trump Self-Soothes With Fake Photo of Unfinished Pet Project
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
The easily distracted president sure has his priorities straight.
Vic Verbalaitis Night Breaking News Reporter

Published Jun. 1 2026 7:08PM EDT

Trump daydreamed about his $13 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool while his administration was humiliated on multiple fronts on Monday.

Trump, 79, posted a doctored side-by-side photo of the Reflecting Pool on Truth Social around 3 p.m. on Monday, comparing two identical images of the site under “Hussein Obama” and himself.

The photo on Trump’s side depicts much bluer water than the one on Obama’s side, though the photos are otherwise identical. Both images feature the exact same cloud formations and people walking alongside the pool, meaning one photo is just a color swap of the other.

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You're President, Iran won't "make a deal" with you, your slush fund's terminated, WHAT'S YOUR NEXT LOGICAL MOVE? (Original Post) Miles Archer Monday OP
Suicide malaise Monday #1
I'm all for big dreams Miles Archer Monday #3
+1 dalton99a Yesterday #13
Throw a temper tantrum on social media? EdmondDantes_ Monday #2
resignation followed by indictment, taking full responsibility by pleasing guilty, and going to prison? Takket Monday #4
Now show the side by side of inaugural crowds. dem4decades Monday #5
Attack Cuba? House of Roberts Monday #6
That's what I'd go with Zorro Monday #7
I think that's what he really wants to do Mad_Machine76 Monday #9
Seriously Mad_Machine76 Monday #8
It is the felon that is incapable of sucking up the loss. pat_k Monday #10
Photogate. Trump has some explaining to do. oasis Monday #11
Shit your pants while standing next to a column Blue Owl Yesterday #12
"Blame Somebody" Should be a song about Trump. RoeVWade 23 hrs ago #14
Something is going to pop. jeffreyi 22 hrs ago #15
Take a nap NJCher 20 hrs ago #16

Miles Archer

(24,676 posts)
3. I'm all for big dreams
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:27 PM
Monday

I have to wonder if the inevitable will happen, and he'll just stop getting attention.

There's a remarkable scene in George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead." One of the characters gets attacked by zombies, which means he turns into a zombie. He's in an elevator. There are zombies watching the elevator come down to their floor. They gather, thinking "HEY! DINNER!" The door opens and the guy inside is more messed up than all of them combined and they take a look and sort of go "MEH" and shuffle away.

I wonder if a similar fate awaits Trump. If you ask ME "When did his schtick get OLD and REPETITIVE and TIRESOME," my answer would be "THE EIGHTIES."

And I know he still fascinates the MAGAts, but if prices keep climbing and people are forced to get by with less and less as we watch Elon Musk become the world's first trillionaire, riding on the back of Americans' 401K plans, will the MAGAts become like those zombies and just kind of go "this isn't funny anymore" and walk away?

I have my doubts, but WOW, would that be the ultimate dose of karma for Trump.

So that's my dream...that he gets to live out his final years, wallowing in irrelevance.

EdmondDantes_

(2,150 posts)
2. Throw a temper tantrum on social media?
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:22 PM
Monday

Although logical is being used fairly loosely in this context.

Takket

(23,831 posts)
4. resignation followed by indictment, taking full responsibility by pleasing guilty, and going to prison?
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:30 PM
Monday

Mad_Machine76

(25,038 posts)
9. I think that's what he really wants to do
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:54 PM
Monday

so that he can get another rush of adrenaline like with seizing Maduro. He seems bored with Iran at the moment, but he can't get out of his own way to extricate himself (us) from that mess.

Mad_Machine76

(25,038 posts)
8. Seriously
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:51 PM
Monday

I think that Trump really just doesn't care anymore and it would be best for everybody that he just resigns and spare us a couple of years but TBH I don't know that just getting rid of Trump would fix anything. His second term push to become an American autocrat is (thankfully) falling apart but it's still a couple of years away from the next Presidential election, so it's not like we can get a Democrat into office before then and JD Vance is a prick and a moron, as is the rest of the cabinet and Mike Johnson in the House (who may very well lose his Speakership by next January). I think that this country is FUBAR'd until after 2028. I don't really see a comeback for Trump, and I don't know how we will pull ourselves out the morass that Trump has us stuck in......

pat_k

(14,061 posts)
10. It is the felon that is incapable of sucking up the loss.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 11:06 PM
Monday

He is incapable of making the only possible deal because it will brand a big L for Loser on his forehead. And that deal is recommitting to Obama's treaty, shoveling 10x the amount of money that Obama did (reparations for the criminal war), and an "environmental fee" (i.e., toll).

He will continue to demand that his so-called "negotiators" get a "better deal." Unfortunately, even more competent folk than his morons wouldn't be able to craft a way out that isn't effectively a declaration of surrender and declaration that the treaty negotiated over two years by the Obama administration, which was supported by allies -- a treaty the felon ripped to shreds -- was the best deal possible.


RoeVWade

(939 posts)
14. "Blame Somebody" Should be a song about Trump.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 08:58 AM
23 hrs ago

Tantrums and blaming someone else. Then bragging about himself, or having others do it.

He's such a miserable creature.

jeffreyi

(2,604 posts)
15. Something is going to pop.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:34 AM
22 hrs ago

The crazy unhinged is at a very high level. At some point, he is not useful any more.

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