Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[benjii]

11 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

How long before Grok is redacted?!

Dunno, but in the meantime....

I asked it to do one of Zia Yusuf but it was extremely racist!

 

Edited Friday at 20:48 by benjii

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

At the moment, you can ask Grok to do a no holds barred roast of someone and it just goes to town.

 

Less a roast, than observational.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

At the moment, you can ask Grok to do a no holds barred roast of someone and it just goes to town.

 

@Wade Garrett is still better at this in my view. We need a Wade App.

Edited Friday at 21:40 by Gloucester Saint

[tdmickey3]

16 hours ago, benjii said:

At the moment, you can ask Grok to do a no holds barred roast of someone and it just goes to town.

 

Amazing how true this is

[sadoldgit]

Nothing dodgy here at all…

“Donald Trump’s son, Barron Trump, reportedly made a stunning $30 million oil purchase just 48 hours before tensions with Iran erupted into open hostilities—an investment that is now drawing intense global attention.

The timing has raised eyebrows as the energy market faces massive disruptions. Qatar has declared a state of emergency and halted gas production, while Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has threatened to cut off gas supplies to Europe. At the same time, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims control over the critical Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil shipping routes.

Meanwhile in Washington, political tensions are also rising. Congress has voted to block President Trump from ordering new military strikes, yet the Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $50 billion funding request following the loss of nearly $2 billion in military equipment.

On the battlefield, the human cost continues to climb. A recent U.S. strike reportedly sank an Iranian warship, leaving around 150 people missing. In another dramatic development, Russia is said to be preparing to secure Iranian nuclear sites after losing contact with Tehran’s nuclear leadership.

With Saudi oil storage nearing full capacity and global markets on edge, Barron Trump’s massive oil investment has fueled debate about the intersection of private financial moves and a rapidly escalating geopolitical crisis.”

[rallyboy]

Did the US president really just accuse Great Britain of arriving late at a war? 😲

[skintsaint]

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Edited 22 hours ago by skintsaint

[whelk]

He won’t be liking these ratings https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

 

[Gloucester Saint]

44 minutes ago, whelk said:

He won’t be liking these ratings https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

 

Some of the smaller local elections in GOP strongholds such as Texas they’ve been losing heavily, really heavily. Although his strange core of thugs and evangelicals will always support his nappied arse come what may, circa 20m voters thought he’d be better than Harris on the economy.

Surprise! 

[badgerx16]

Former Trump fanatic Marjorie Taylor Greene on a TV talk show '

“What’s in his mind? What is his mental state? A year in, and we’re in another f**king war, What is happening to a man I supported… the man that denounced what happened in Iraq, the man who said, ‘no more foreign wars, no more regime change’?”

[badgerx16]

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-inner-circle-cannot-rein-him-in-4282528?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

"When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2024, he and his top advisers believed they had hit upon a surefire way to ensure that, this time around, he would not be talked out of anything he wanted to do.

The plan: to surround himself with dyed-in-the-wool loyalists from within his Make America Great Again and America First movements. There would be no voices of dissent, no moderating influences and – as the US President looks around his Cabinet table – definitely no Ed Milibands ready to challenge and dissuade him from wading blindly into geopolitical crises and military engagements.

Arguably, no single event has revealed the success of the Trump’s strategy more than the US’s ongoing “major combat operations” against Iran.

Without a single restraining voice in his ear, he has taken full advantage of his top lieutenants’ green light to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, destabilise the Middle East, put the lives of US troops at risk, send the global price of oil soaring and leave the US at a greater risk of terror attacks at home.

A casual observer can see Trump’s strategy playing out on television daily. His “Cabinet meetings” are not proper Cabinet meetings – they are made-for-television spectacles in which the President goes around the table and invites praise and plaudits from sycophantic members of his inner circle who, at times, appear to be competing to massage his ego with ever-greater dollops of baby oil."

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"In Trump’s second term, there are no experts within his National Security Council willing to present an alternative thesis to the President’s preconceived notions – they were all rooted out the moment Joe Biden left office.

This time around, there are not even any first-term figures such as John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, or former national security advisers General HR McMaster or John Bolton, who, with varying degrees of fealty, would prostrate themselves before Trump but also occasionally tell him he was wrong.

Instead, the country is left with the cartoonish character of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. He is a former Fox News weekend anchorman who displays all the characteristics of a performing seal as he presents cocksure, tough-guy military briefings that appear designed primarily for the attention of his boss. At times, even the generals tapped by Trump to lead his war shuffle uncomfortably on their feet as Hegseth reaches for the high notes.

These are generals who survived Hegseth’s purges last year, which aimed to remove those whose views were seen as at odds with Trump’s own."

Edited 2 hours ago by badgerx16

[The Kraken]

3 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Former Trump fanatic Marjorie Taylor Greene on a TV talk show '

“What’s in his mind? What is his mental state? A year in, and we’re in another f**king war, What is happening to a man I supported… the man that denounced what happened in Iraq, the man who said, ‘no more foreign wars, no more regime change’?”

Well gee Marjorie, it’s like it was almost impossible to predict that Trump would go back on his word about anything.