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Everybody is laughing at Trump.
They think he is a fool, an immature child.
He went to the NATO summit with Putin's orders in his pocket. He threatened to withdraw all American troops from Europe. He stomped his foot and yelled that Greenland should belong to the United States. We need it for its resources. They were laughing behind his back.
He used to brag that the United States was not respected and were ridiculed by the world. His bluster and and his grandiose plans with his war in Iran have been blown to smithereens. This morning he said, "it's over. I'm through with them".
Even the Belgium soccer team was mocking him. They performed the fist-waving dance that Trump is known for, after their victory over the United States. He was humiliated on the world stage.
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no_hypocrisy
(55,868 posts)I would imagine him saying that the Belgium soccer team was paying homage to him, admiration, praise.
biophile
(1,735 posts)Sir
sinkingfeeling
(58,326 posts)In 2023, Congress enacted a law that prohibits the President from "suspend[ing], terminat[ing], denounc[ing], or withdraw[ing] the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty"—which established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—without the advice and consent of the Senate or an act of Congress. See Section 1250A of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, Pub. L. No. 118-31. This provision emerged against the backdrop of debates concerning the United States' policy toward NATO and whether the President possesses the power to withdraw the United States from treaties without receiving the legislative branch's approval.
Diamond_Dog
(41,599 posts)
Escape
(577 posts)The LAW is not important to our dictator.. At this point, it's no more than a mild inconvenience to him. The courts can order that he and his cast of criminals obey the rules but there are no consequences when they refuse.
hamsterjill
(18,048 posts)I grow SO weary of the insistent posts that keep providing links to laws, etc. and posters believing with all their little hearts that Trump is bound by those laws. It's amazing how many even here on DU have not figured out that Trump pushes the envelope to see how far he can, and he generally gets away with it. He's broken more laws than anyone before him, and he's proud that he's getting away with it.
Case in point - has he paid E. Jean Carroll yet?
NJCher
(43,892 posts)Tonight that said the judge ordered the disbursement.
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,325 posts)Is the fact he and his henchmen have decimated our intelligence agencies. Making us more susceptible to terrorist attacks and mayhem. But what he fails to recognize is that it also makes him and his cronies more susceptible to attack as well. Iran was known to have plotted his demise because of his assassination of Soleimani in Iraq. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't resurrected such plans. And now with Bill "I love to kiss Trump's ass" Pulte as DNI, our intelligence forces are essentially blind. It would be fitting that his lust for vengeance is what finally does him in.
rampartd
(5,782 posts)about the time putin visits his new capital in paris.
evolves
(5,902 posts)Who is going to enforce that law?
Congress passed a law saying that the entirety of the Epstein files were to be released in December 2025. It STILL hasn't happened. He does what he wants, his lackey "cabinet" props him up, and the GOP traitors in Congress look the other way.
The law doesn't mean shit anymore, except for us peons.
AZLD4Candidate
(7,131 posts)There is a Domestic Emoluments Clause in Article Two.
That hasn't been respected either
vapor2
(5,213 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,777 posts)He needs to be gone.
I’m tired of snark and laughter.
calimary
(91,662 posts)agingdem
(9,070 posts)Republicans are willing to endure to stay in power because of a know-nothing insane vomit spewing sadist…if they’re brave enough to hold town halls, their constituents shout them down forcing them to flee the venue…when they’re cornered by the press and asked to comment on Trump’s latest insult, threat, or global embarrassment they say they haven’t kept up with the news…
My take is a few of the semi-sane Republicans are secretly looking for the Dems to sweep the House and put a stop to Trump’s psychopathic urges…do what they are too cowardly to do… shut Trump down…
Bristlecone
(11,282 posts)He never lets a perceived slight go. No matter how small and no matter the cost to others.
MLWR
(1,170 posts)And they're one hundred percent correct in that assessment.
dave99
(815 posts)fixed it
AverageOldGuy
(4,419 posts)Trump is POTUS until Inauguration Day 2029. He will not change. Look at everything he has trashed, fucked , and destroyed in 17 months. How much more damage will he do in the next 31 months?
We can tell all the truth about Trump we want to and it will change nothing.
Billsdaughter
(212 posts)Our nation is in great peril. It's obvious the mission is to destroy our country at Putin's behest. Our treasury robbed, our arms and apparatus pillaged, our economy in ruins, our alliances severed.
Martin Eden
(16,142 posts)Foremost on my mind would be taking that hand grenade away, and making sure the toddler never poses a danger again.
ananda
(35,929 posts)since he took the USA so easily.
His problem is that his brand of narcissism
compels him to want to take ownership of
everything and everybody that he comes
across in any way.
When he actually does this, he always fucks
it up, takes credit for doing it the best ever,
and then places the blame for the fuck ups
on someone and/or something else
He does this very well in the USA. But on the
world stage it's a whole nother thing.
Free world nations are strong, mighty, and united.
They have not been ruled or taken over by Trump
or Putin.
And Zelensky and Europe are in the process of
destroying Russia.
Good.
mdbl
(9,095 posts)and the destruction of our reputation isn't even over thanks to the asshole do-nothing GOP running the other branches.
SamuelAdams
(451 posts)He walked away from the ceasefire and we're back to war with Iran. Gas prices will spike again. We can mock him for his stupidity and incompetence but his actions still harm us.
Dr. T
(866 posts)the Brain Floss.
BidenRocks
(3,709 posts)All the years and the NRAs bullshit, where is it!
The Tea Party? Don't Tread On Me?
This is the Governmental Overreach.
This is the Deep State, the takeover.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
These are the people who went Ape Shit for Operation Jade Helm.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories
Justice matters.
(10,271 posts)for 30 years of trashing the Democratic admins with made-up lies and dishonesty.
All that for profits. It costs them almost a billion in settlement to Dominion Voting but they still turned a profit over all those years.
pat_k
(14,704 posts)From 2020
The Republican Party Is Racist and Soulless. Just Ask This Veteran GOP Strategist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/
Asked if the Republican Party in the Trump years has become an outfit free of governing ideas, Stevens went even further: “It was all a lie.” He noted that this was word-for-word the title of his forthcoming book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. The modern GOP, he said, never truly cared about the ideas it claimed to care about.
This was a stunning indictment coming from a longtime political consultant who had toiled on five Republican presidential campaigns and numerous Senate and gubernatorial races. “The Republican Party has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly. “And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’ The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”
Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system. He now realizes it has been a feature.
He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now. You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’ No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.” He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”
Stevens, an erudite fellow who is also a novelist and a travel writer, has become an emblematic ex-Republican. He once believed in GOP ideals and ideas. Now he saw it all as a huge con. His new book is a confession and cri de coeur. The first line is blunt: “I have no one to blame but myself.” In these pages, Stevens self-flagellates, calling himself a “fool” for his decades of believing—and lying to himself—that the Republican Party was based on “a core set of values.” Acknowledging his role, Stevens writes, “So yes, blame me. Blame me when you look around and see a dysfunctional political system and a Republican Party that has gone insane.” The book offers one overarching prescription for the GOP: “Burn it to the ground and start over.”
In our conversation, Stevens exploded with loathing for the party he once faithfully (and lucratively) served. He rejected the common view that Trump had hijacked the GOP. No, he explained, the triumph of know-nothing Trumpism marked the culmination of an internal conflict that had existed for decades between the party’s “dark side” and its professed ideals. Even William F. Buckley Jr., often hailed as a grand public intellectual and the founding father of the modern conservative movement, was “a stone-cold racist” in the 1950s, Stevens pointed out. (Buckley at that time considered white people more “advanced” and more fit to govern.)
“A lot of us in the party liked to believe the dark side was a recessive gene, but it’s a dominant theme,” Stevens, a seventh-generation Mississippian who was named for Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart, told me. “And it’s all about race. The Republican Party is a white party and there still are more white people than non-white people.” So that is whom the party aims at—even if this will eventually be a losing proposition as the nation’s demographics continue to shift. Ronald Reagan achieved a landslide victory in 1980 by bagging 56 percent of white voters; 28 years later, John McCain lost with 55 percent of white voters. Perhaps the party’s fixation on white voters can work one more time with Trump in 2020. “But we’re talking about the Confederacy—literally,” Stevens said.
And Nazi Germany. On his own, with no prompting, Stevens went straight to the Defcon-1 analogy: “I tell my GOP friends, ‘It’s crazy to say it’s 1934 in Germany…when it’s clearly 1936.’” He insisted that the 1930s are important for understanding the current moment. “When there was rising anti-Semitism, isolationism, and pro-Nazi sentiment, why did the US not become fascist?” Stevens asked. “Because of FDR. Leaders matter, and the GOP has now completely abdicated its role.” Instead, the party has yielded completely to demagoguery and race-baiting to exploit the racism and resentments of certain white voters. Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system. He now realizes it has been a feature.
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ChicagoTeamster
(1,564 posts)Point out that Obama wasn’t left standing alone at NATO. Tell Trump world leaders laugh at him behind his back. Then have their sources ask white house staff for pictures of ketchup stains on the walls of the white house.
Martin68
(28,401 posts)Trump's failure to force European and other countries to bend to his will through tariffs and his utter failure in Iran have exposed the US as an unreliable and ineffectual partner.
maxsolomon
(39,531 posts)Yes, his schtick is tiresome and gob-smacking, but he is a SOCIOPATH.
He starts wars on "gut feelings", he tears up treaties on whims and grudges, he gaslights, he grifts, he has the military murder people on boats and laughs at ethics and laws.
I'd say the NATO leaders are deeply, deeply concerned because they cannot apply logic to his behavior.
some_of_us_are_sane
(3,909 posts)
orangecrush
(32,039 posts)I see nothing funny about him at all.
ChicagoTeamster
(1,564 posts)Scalded Nun
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red dog 1
(33,825 posts)usedtobedemgurl
(2,104 posts)And tell me I am wrong.
red dog 1
(33,825 posts)usedtobedemgurl
(2,104 posts)red dog 1
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Ilsa
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Skittles
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BigmanPigman
(55,828 posts)He probably is unaware of what is going on all around him since his fellow traitors are editing what he may see. Also, since he has so much dementia at this point he wouldn't remember what he saw or read from 1 minute to the next.
usonian
(27,425 posts)
Yes, this one.
I remember back in 2015, when "Prarie Home Companion" had a regular radio actor spoof Trump.
I screamed so loud, they probably heard it in Lake Woebegone. UNDER THE ICE.
Why? Because he thrives on attention and is dead as a raodkill skunk if Epstein is fully revealed.
He is winning the Epstein Attention War.
'Laugh all you like"
Everything he has done since Jan 2025 (or 2021) has been to distract from Epstein. HE IS HAUNTED.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21343625
Orrex
(67,610 posts)
AllyCat
(19,060 posts)pat_k
(14,704 posts)