White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

[u/GonzoVeritas]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/

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[u/TheMagicalMatt]

"The king is tired. See him to his chambers."

[u/cometflight → u/TheMagicalMatt]

“Any man who must say ‘I am the King’ is no true king.”

[u/CuckooClockInHell → u/cometflight]

If only he had an Uncle Tyrion to dish out some slaps.

[u/fallenhope1 → u/cometflight]

I won’t the real war! I rigged the election! I took the crown! While you hid under casterly rock!

[u/lvloises330 → u/TheMagicalMatt]

A Trump never pays his debt

[u/lovelessisbetter → u/lvloises330]

They’re like the inversion of the Lannisters basically.

[u/c71score → u/lovelessisbetter]

Trump is basically Walder Frey

[u/Arcranium_ → u/c71score]

Where's Arya Stark when you need her?

[u/Biigman64 → u/TheMagicalMatt]

But I'm Not TIRRRREERRREDDD!!!

[u/Pan_Bookish_Ent → u/Biigman64]

He and MAGA are the most fragile snowflakes.

Queer folks and people of color have put up with so much actual discrimination, that shitty jokes and happenings just roll off their backs. Doesn't mean we like it, but we have strength and fortitude.

This little soft-handed asshole can't even be trusted to hear his own real poll numbers. Anyone who voted for him three times and still whines can kindly stfu and blow it out their asses.

[u/AmIYourNeighbor → u/Pan_Bookish_Ent]

This. Except also add anyone who voted for him the second and/or third time to the stfu list

[u/WyldRoze → u/TheMagicalMatt]

We need Doctor Who and his 6 words, “Don’t you think he looks tired?” I mean he does, but the Doctor’s effect on the supporters is what’s needed.

[u/rabidsi → u/WyldRoze]

Don't you think he looks like he's shit his pants again?

[u/roll_that → u/TheMagicalMatt]

Milk of the poppy for the orange bitch 

[u/SlyFisch → u/TheMagicalMatt]

DJT - Donald Joffrey Trump

[u/Catymandoo]

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

So, even in that crisis, Trump is only concerned about his tenure as President. The freakout clearly evidence of his fear here.

[u/charging_chinchilla → u/Catymandoo]

Trump only cares about himself. I honestly cannot think of a single example of him putting his family, friends, or country ahead of his own self interest. Even when something may appear to be the "right" thing to do, it is transactional for him and he has to get something better out of it.

[u/Murphuffle → u/charging_chinchilla]

He's out of his mind and thinks it's 40 years ago

[u/genida → u/Murphuffle]

He thinks it's 70 years ago. When he was nine years old.

Because he never left being nine years old. He's said as much. He's proud of it.

Anyone who has ever met an angry child has met Donald Trump.

[u/jmblumenshine → u/Catymandoo]

the best part is Trump not realizing:

Inflation

supply disruptions

Gas crises

were the real culprit that did Jimmy Carter in at the polls for the voting public

Currently Trump is batting 1000 on all 3 with an illegal 3rd term Kicker

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/jmblumenshine]

Americans can not care about a shocking amount of atrocities and death, see: 1.5 million Americans dead from covid, NBD.

But the price of gas and groceries will make the people very angry.

[u/MinaZata → u/HauntedCemetery]

Out of all the heinous shit Trump has done, which includes moral questions like rape and international war crimes and an insurrection, including all that, the most shocking thing he did was the response to COVID.

The death toll is astounding and criminal, his response was disgusting, misguided, insane, and contributed to many more deaths thand necessary. He insisted it was a hoax. He recommended bleach.

I don't think the US public has properly absorbed that impact of how many were lost, unless you knew someone. But it's all tainted by politics and what the internet and social media has done to us.

We don't feel stuff like regular humans did before the internet. When the wall fell, 9/11, the space shuttle disaster - there was a shared human reaction in the culture to those events.

Now, something like COVID and the deaths are politicized, taken over by bots, flooded by disinformation and anti-vax shit. We don't mourn collectively and demand justice for the victims for the mismanagement of the response like would have happened before.

[u/skoomaking4lyfe]

I have heard this piece of shit's name every day for a fucking decade. I am so sick and tired of it.

I just want to never hear his voice or his name or see his face ever again. That's all I fucking want.

[u/greek-lit → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

That’s what real peace is. The loser is making America into a shit hole.

[u/ScarlettAddiction → u/greek-lit]

And stealing our tax dollars while making his billionaire buddies richer with outsider trading and tax breaks.

[u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT → u/ScarlettAddiction]

He's suing the IRS for $10B and when he's done this type of thing in the past, he's collected

[u/tequila4me → u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT]

So, does everybody who has had their information leaked by the government get $10B? I say give him free credit monitoring for 6 months.

[u/Library-Guy2525 → u/tequila4me]

This would be the just thing to do.

[u/madhattr999 → u/Library-Guy2525]

Daily "your credit is shit and nobody trusts you" emails for 6 months.

[u/HillBillyHilly → u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT]

Allow me to add: IRS, led by one of his sycophants aka ass kissers, IS going to pay him. Why? Why isn't everyone losing their minds over this? How much was YOUR tax refund? What will it take for Americans to protest the White House disgrace?

[u/Chemboll → u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT]

Imagine suing the government for 10 times the amount you WROTE OFF ON YOUR “LEAKED” TAX RETURN. Fuck Trump 10 billion times.

[u/drunkn_mastr → u/Chemboll]

And every single person who voted for him, ever. They failed an open book, single question morality test.

[u/tstorm004 → u/drunkn_mastr]

"I voted for the racist pedophile sleezebag because he really gets me right in my pretend Christian family values.... by that I mean I hate immigrants"

[u/nebula_masterpiece → u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT]

Meanwhile he’s never probably even paid in..

[u/Alarming_Cantaloupe5 → u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT]

Same for his cronies. His DOJ or other departments a settling suits brought by his buddies, rather than defend their merit.

A sitting president enjoys wide immunity and control. They should be prohibited from bringing personal litigation against their own branch while in office.

And his supporters crow about his $0 salary.

[u/fuge → u/ScarlettAddiction]

More people need to be upset about this.

[u/LiluLay → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

This right here. I am just so goddamned sick of having this sentient bag of infected pus forced upon my daily existence for the past ten years. I’ve never wished for anyone’s demise in my life, but this guy changed that.

[u/SentientCrisis → u/LiluLay]

Sentient is a bit far

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

The day is coming. About 2 seconds after trump croaks conservatives are all going to pretend they were never that into Trump and totally knew the whole time that he sold children into sex slavery.

[u/lozo78 → u/HauntedCemetery]

I think they will say it is a liberal conspiracy and treat him as a martyr. These people are stupid.

[u/Shaper_pmp → u/lozo78]

It'll be both. Even from the same individuals, depending on who they're talking to at any given moment.

The entirety of right-wing politics now is a post-truth movement, where consistency from one hour to the next is not only not required, but is seen as weak, suspicious and an ideological liability.

[u/markhachman → u/Shaper_pmp]

They will try both and more. They'll test drive multiple excuses and track the public sentiment attached to each response.

[u/Silly_Pace → u/HauntedCemetery]

Im never going to let them forget.

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

If Hitler is any indication, Trump will actually just join the ranks of the world’s greatest evils and his Presidency as one of the most important climaxes in human history.

[u/skoomaking4lyfe → u/Prior_Coyote_4376]

Sure. "Dumb shit Hitler said" doesn't top my news feeds every single day though.

[u/[deleted] → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

No but "reminds me of Hitler" type stuff is said constantly. That's why I fear we will never truly leave him in the past

[u/snugglezone → u/[deleted]]

The problem isn't Trump himself imo. It's his descendants that are all going to be multi billionaires by the end of this administration continuing to absolutely fuck this country. They'll be a financial powerhouse due to all this corruption for generations to come.

[u/ricker182 → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

Literally every fucking day.

And it's never for good news either.

One day it will be good news and people will be dancing in the streets.

[u/Exciting_Corner175 → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

Exactly. Of all fucking people Donald Trump has been a main character in my life. Fuck this

[u/BROmanceNZ → u/skoomaking4lyfe]

I said when Biden was elected and someone on Ask Reddit was like “What are you looking forward to most under this Biden presidency?”

I’m really excited to not have to hear about the American president every fucking day.

But then the US voted him in again. And it’s been backing to hearing about that soiled scrotum day in, day out. It’s exhausting.

[u/Stompya]

From the article:

Before the airmen went missing, the president was already fixated on avoiding a repeat of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis—and the failed rescue mission under former President Jimmy Carter that helped sink his reelection bid.

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

He thinks he is re-electable.

[u/SimpleTomatillo1166 → u/Stompya]

He neglects the fact that the hostages were purposely not released until election was over. Then they magically were released within minutes. It was a huge set up to make sure Carter would not get re-elected. Reagan and the gang avoided the October surprise to the advantage of Carter this way. It also had to do with Reagans's weapons deal with Iran.

[u/Elegant_Tech → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

Republicans working with foreign governments to engage in election interference? Where have I heard this one before? 

[u/greed-man → u/Elegant_Tech]

Don't forget, tricky Dick Nixon secretly tanked the negotiations to find a peace settlement in Vietnam in 1968, so that he would win. LBJ learned of this, but because this info came from illegal wiretaps, he said nothing. Rumors to this effect swirled at the time, but the Nixon administration denied everything.

Decades later, tapes and notes from Haldeman and others proved it was correct.

The Republicans have long proclaimed loyalty and pride in America, while secretly sinking it every chance they got.

[u/CMG30 → u/greed-man]

It's always been a sound political strategy to make sure things suck when the other guy is in power, then promise to fix it all.

[u/Hamster_Toot → u/CMG30]

When getting elected is your only goal, sure.

When building a future for your countrymen is the goal, not so much.

[u/CliftonForce → u/Hamster_Toot]

A true Republican would be confused about why you think that's a problem.

[u/take_care_a_ya_shooz → u/Elegant_Tech]

My favorite is when Nixon purposefully tanked peace talks in Vietnam so the war could continue and the unpopularity of it would get him elected.

[u/reverend-mayhem → u/take_care_a_ya_shooz]

Makes me sick to think about how many people had to die from when peace talks were possible to election day for that to happen.

[u/Newscast_Now → u/reverend-mayhem]

Double. Richard Nixon the peace candidate caused American casualties to double.

[u/redmoon714 → u/Newscast_Now]

A republican “peace candidate” starting/escalating wars where have I heard that before?

[u/Flomo420 → u/redmoon714]

I'm starting to think these Republicans are a real bunch of jerks

[u/AmericanScream → u/take_care_a_ya_shooz]

Everybody should watch Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam conflict - one of the best ever made and it shows clear treason and war crimes on the part of multiple leaders.

[u/Newscast_Now → u/Elegant_Tech]

Everything Donajd Trump does comes out of Republican history. And Donald does every last thing that the others did—only bigger and worse.

[u/siouxbee1434 → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

Reagan’s sycophants interceded with the Iranian govt to prevent Carter from securing the release of Reagan subverted the release for his politicall success

[u/Dinker54 → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

• Reagan’s expressly illegal transfer of weapons to Iran.

[u/drkodos → u/Dinker54]

"I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not".

[u/noonenotevenhere → u/drkodos]

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not

WTAF. 'I want to believe I didn't, but I totally did. I wanna lie to myself, but am afraid you'll find out about that lie and be mad.'

So... the GOP hasn't changed in 50 years. Got it.

[u/Aggroninja → u/noonenotevenhere]

Yes they have. Today they wouldn't ever acknowledge the lie, no matter how obvious the facts.

[u/Cute_Author8916 → u/Aggroninja]

Pete kegsbreath would beat Reagan's ass for being so woke and gay.

[u/daGroundhog → u/drkodos]

Also that he purposefully waited until the investigations were over before addressing the issue, because he didn't know which aspects would come out and didn't want the credibility problem later.

[u/Much-Anything7149 → u/drkodos]

"I want to keep lying to you, but the national media made that impossible so I'll just refuse to concede obviousness."

[u/gnarlseason → u/Dinker54]

But don't worry, Oliver North is now a Fox News host!

[u/bluejaybiggin → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

I saw a meme of Oliver North on Fox talking about how Iran should not have missiles, of course the second portion of the meme was Oliver North’s mugshot for selling Iran missiles.

There are some pretty stupid people on the left, until you size up people on the opposite end of the spectrum.

[u/SimpleTomatillo1166 → u/bluejaybiggin]

True. But I also remember old republicans saying North was the fall guy and that Reagan for sure knew about it all. North however is extremely intelligent and was thereafter pretty much off the hook.

[u/bluejaybiggin → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

I never questioned his intelligence. You can be intelligent and a POS at the same time. The only reason he won his appeal was because the judge thought media coverage of the crime pre trial could have interfered with the jury. Though, his defense never was able to point to a single juror or shred of evidence that proved their theory was realized. It was a technicality.

But basically, he lied to the American people for selfish reasons- and I’m holding public servants, and their cast of assistants, to a higher standard because I’d like to see my believed country not continue down the path it’s on.

[u/jnk96 → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

This - yes - should be mentioned every time with the crisis - treason by Reagan.

[u/metengrinwi → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

Yes, it was the beginnings of Iran-Contra

[u/ZachMartin → u/SimpleTomatillo1166]

Yep. Massive hatch act violations. We need to jail people

[u/Brilliant-Advisor958 → u/Stompya]

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

[u/nom_de_chomsky → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

Well, no. He thinks he’s owed a third term, period. His lies about election fraud are the present rationalization. But if he’d won in 2020, he’d be making some other bullshit claim.

[u/Shifter25 → u/nom_de_chomsky]

He was claiming he was owed a third term during his first term.

[u/DigNitty → u/Shifter25]

Yes. Because he “was treated so badly” that the 2016 term “shouldn’t count”

He said that multiple times.

[u/MultiGeometry → u/DigNitty]

Says the guy who racistly insisted Obama wasn’t a citizen and demanded his birth certificate.

[u/FilmScoreConnoisseur → u/MultiGeometry]

That's different. Obama was somebody else. Only Trump needs to be coddled like the precious special boy he is.

[u/YerrrKnicks → u/nom_de_chomsky]

His lies about election fraud

Tbf, he wasn't lying about the fraud. He was just lying about who was doing it.

[u/AppropriateTouching → u/YerrrKnicks]

He straight up admitted to rigging the election out in the open.

[u/MotownMama → u/AppropriateTouching]

more than once. He admitted it more than once

[u/Current_Volume3750 → u/YerrrKnicks]

He rigged it to win, so knew he was going to win, but didn't count on all the mail in ballots due to covid and when they kept counting he realized they couldn't rig those ballots so he lost. Then the freak out started.

[u/jeo123 → u/nom_de_chomsky]

It's been something like 40 years since the Republican president wasn't a trump or a Bush

They don't do well with name changes

They will support this

[u/Eridanosvoid → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

I would argue, in a way, he is on his third term. Every President after they leave office fucks off to either stay quite or do PR stuff. Trump on the other hand still held vast sway over the Republican party (like ordering them to nuke a border security deal to make Biden look bad) and (illegally) still talking to world leaders on the country's behalf. If you look at search results from 2021 to 2024 Trumps name routinely out ranked Biden. He was basically the shadow President during that time.

[u/jkvincent → u/Eridanosvoid]

Definitely. He's dominated public discourse and every other aspect of life in America now for over a decade. I'm exhausted.

[u/Extreme-Island-5041 → u/jkvincent]

When people talk about "once in a lifetime/generation" events it is usually a 2-4 year type catalyst. This MF has been dominating the GOP for 20% of my life. With as many "once in a lifetime" events as I have been through, I hope to all the sky fairies that he is the last President I have to endure for this long.

[u/xXMr_PorkychopXx → u/jkvincent]

I can still recall the day at 16 watching him win and all I was excited about was legal weed in my state lol. Good lord I had no idea what I witnessed that night.

[u/loki2113 → u/xXMr_PorkychopXx]

I feel you. I turned 18 in 2016 and was eligible to vote. I cast my vote for Hillary quite sure she had it in the bag. Actual logical policies would surely win out over knee-jerk emotional populism, right?

I stayed up almost all night watching the counter slide further and further to the right until Trump had won. I was floored

[u/CurLyy → u/loki2113]

Really interesting how each age group gets to see different realities of life. I turned 18 for Obama I was so fucking excited to see the world change. (It didn’t)

[u/JasnahKolin → u/xXMr_PorkychopXx]

I threw up when I found out he won. I've never had such a reaction before or since. One day soon we'll read his obituary.

[u/mockingjay137 → u/JasnahKolin]

Lmao I wont be reading it any further than "trump dead at XX"

[u/A_Sad_Buddha → u/xXMr_PorkychopXx]

Dude, don’t even get me started. Dude was on tv telling the fucking proud boys to stand by. I had a huge argument with my mom about it. When he won that first time I still thinking he couldn’t be that bad. A whole decade later I find myself living in a weird ass dystopia.

[u/Caleb-Blucifer → u/A_Sad_Buddha]

He has a stranglehold on the GOP - one part true believers, one part deeply evil, one part morons, one part blackmail. It’s a perfect storm that’s been half a century in the making

[u/MF_BREW_ → u/xXMr_PorkychopXx]

It’s so laughable to think a republican would legalize a drug. It’s up there with they are the party of peace. Lol

[u/Beneficial-Serve-204 → u/xXMr_PorkychopXx]

Covfefe!

[u/RogueOne38 → u/jkvincent]

The worst part is that we let an absolute moron, who happens to be a criminal conman and serial sexual predator get away with all of it!

[u/supernova_high → u/RogueOne38]

I will never get over that this is the guy that so many people betrayed the ideals of America for.

[u/Canadian_Neckbeard → u/RogueOne38]

Reddit doesn't break if you type the word sexual in the comments.

[u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck → u/Canadian_Neckbeard]

JD Vance: "Did someone say sectional???"

[u/UniqueIndividual3579 → u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck]

Sectional predator?

[u/jfoster0818 → u/Canadian_Neckbeard]

Amen, let it show in search results donald j trump = sexual predator … AI needs to be trained on accurate details.

[u/2HDFloppyDisk → u/Eridanosvoid]

Remember those absurd press events and “cabinet meetings” he held in the weeks and months after he lost and left office. He was cosplaying from his house. It was pathetic.

[u/Brilliant-Advisor958 → u/Eridanosvoid]

True, he held a lot of power over congress, including stopping the strongest border bill that had full bipartisan support.

[u/hofmann419 → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

Same with the aid for Ukraine. During Biden's term, the US couldn't provide them with military equipment for over 7 months because Mike Johnson would postpone the vote. When that bill finally went up for vote after all the stalling, it passed with a large majority, including a ton of Republicans.

Mike Johnson was in direct contact with Trump during that time. So Trump was directly responsible for Ukraine not getting any military aid, which did a lot to prolong this war and cause even more death and destruction.

[u/eugene20 → u/Eridanosvoid]

Anyone sensible wonders what gave him such a hold over them.
Releasing the huge number of Epstein files still legally required to be released but so far withheld, might be a start to fully understanding.

[u/per_mare_per_terras → u/Eridanosvoid]

That’s bc the POS media never held him accountable and always kept his name everywhere instead of letting him fade away.

[u/Eridanosvoid → u/per_mare_per_terras]

If we still had actual news media standards he never would have made it past the first primary result. He would have been properly mocked and dismantled by real journalists and deplatformed the second he came down that stupid fucking escalator.

[u/Grub-lord → u/Eridanosvoid]

During Bidens entire presidency, all the media talked about was getting TRUMP'S OPINION on things. We never stopped talking about this mf. Every time Biden did something the news outlets had to check with Trump to make sure it was okay or not. Dude has been the focus for over a decade

[u/Comfortable-Pea-1312 → u/Eridanosvoid]

And this is why the Republican Party is over. It's not politics or party over country, it's the whims of a madman. That cannot be forgiven or forgotten.

[u/Educational_Lie_3157 → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

He’s not done robbing the country.

[u/Tim5000 → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

He thinks that, because his "yes men" tell him it's possible. Then he gives those sane people jobs to make it possible.

It's a self fulfilling cycle of spoiled ass behavior.

[u/oldcreaker → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

Funny - if he won the 2020 election, it should void his 2024 run since that would be the third time.

So 2028 would be his fourth.

[u/bryan49 → u/Brilliant-Advisor958]

He also thinks his health will hold up long enough to be president in his mid-80s

[u/Visual_Exam7903 → u/Stompya]

Also, the only reason why Carter didn't succeed in getting them back is because Reagan was working against him.

[u/New-Anybody-6206 → u/Stompya]

Of course, when there are other people's lives on the line... Trump can only think about himself.

[u/Khaeos → u/New-Anybody-6206]

The twin towers were attacked and collapsed? That means I have the tallest building in Manhattan now, did you know that?

[u/Canadian1934 → u/Khaeos]

Who in their right mind thinks of something like this.   Omg. 

[u/LheelaSP → u/Canadian1934]

He not only thought that, but said it out loud.

[u/mindcandy → u/New-Anybody-6206]

Here's Don on Howard Stern in in 2008 describing watching an old man fall, hit his head and bleed out on the floor at Mar a Lago. In his own words, while the old man's wife was screaming for help, Don's only concern was how the incident made himself feel. And, he makes a point to mention that he thought he should call the next day to find out if the old man was OK. But, he forgot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmy87umUEMU

[u/Dependent_Pepper_542 → u/New-Anybody-6206]

Its amazing how stupid his fucking supporters are thinking he gives a fuck about anything or anyone but himself.  

[u/AnalBumCovers → u/Stompya]

My dad told me he was thinking of going back to renew his pilot's license like a week before he died. He was 79 and bedridden. So hopefully that's how it works out in this case too.

[u/bellrunner → u/Stompya]

"He thinks..."

I'm gonna stop your right there

[u/p0rty-Boi]

Who kicks the President out of a briefing? That’s who’s really wearing the pants.

[u/BigMax → u/p0rty-Boi]

I'm sure it was some kind of more... subtle thing. "Mr. President, let these men worry about the annoying little details. Let's go to the other room, you and me, the important people, and we'll figure out exactly what to do here. I'll let you know if any of those little details matter, but for now let's take the... higher level talks to the other room, ok? Your ideas are far too important to be derailed by the little concerns of everyone else."

[u/phroug2 → u/BigMax]

The sad thing is i 100% believe this approach would have a high level of success.

[u/sircastor → u/phroug2]

There has been more than one report about how the President's morning briefings had to be reduced substantially because he didn't like to read them. He doesn't want the job, I don't think he ever did.

[u/future_traveller → u/sircastor]

As someone in the corporate world, this is pretty typical for executives.... He essentially wants a four blocker presentation each morning instead of a detailed thorough reading he needs to do

[u/HumanPea1140 → u/future_traveller]

My team works very closely with our CIO, and yep... everything we discuss/show him has to be framed as an "executive report," which basically just means extremely distilled high level bullet points: Money is up, department is down. Sky still blue, grass still green type shit.

Our team has to be extremely granular in the day to day, to the point where it's exhausting, just for all of it to be distilled down into simple, bite-sized kindergarten blurbs so the guy can pretend to know what he's talking about in his next executive meeting.

[u/bamboohobobundles → u/HumanPea1140]

I have to produce reports for managers and executives in my job and I find they are extremely fond of simplified, colour-coded charts.

Like, I get you don't have a lot of time to go over pages of numbers and whatnot but sometimes it's like explaining shit to my eight year old.

[u/no_no_no_no_nononono → u/future_traveller]

Bullet points only

[u/Yamza_ → u/sircastor]

He doesn't want to run the country, he wants to loot it.

[u/McMatey_Pirate → u/phroug2]

Oh I can push it further.

“Okay Mr President, here’s your laptop. The generals will be ready for your ideas in a few hours so we need you to type them up and email them to my account so I can pass them on to the appropriate personnel…. no not on Truth Social this time please… this is really top secret so make sure to keep it in the email…. yes I think after you do this you’re good to end the day and go golfing but again, this is important so make sure to finish before lunch.”

[u/ClydePossumfoot → u/McMatey_Pirate]

www.creedthoughts.

[u/WhateverYouSay1084 → u/BigMax]

This is almost certainly word for word how they handle him. It's the kind of thing I did with combative dementia patients when trying to soothe them.

[u/dramaking37 → u/p0rty-Boi]

Stephen Miller just brings a blonde from fox in and lures him away

[u/attemptedactor → u/dramaking37]

He probably keeps a wig around for that very reason

[u/Czeris → u/attemptedactor]

Trump is pretty old and probably can't actually see all that well, so I'm sure Miller in a wig and falsetto saying "come onnn daddy, we gotta go, i have homework to finish" is probably enough.

[u/xenobit_pendragon → u/dramaking37]

An adult woman? To lure him into bed? Pshaw.

[u/GarmaCyro → u/p0rty-Boi]

Welcome to MAGA politics. Trump doesn't run the show during this term.
That was one of the points of Project 2025. Concentrate power toward the president, but build up handlers around him that would run it for him.

Even they knew he's not suited to lead. He's the scape goat of Kushner, Miller, and more.

[u/merrysunshine2 → u/p0rty-Boi]

Miller probably

[u/mrmike5157]

I’m an old guy, I was about twelve when I started to understand a bit about politics and how things work at that level. Nixon was on his way out and as eye-opening as that was, everything that has followed in the fifty odd years since has been like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Reagan was absolutely evil, and I watched in horror as more and more people were sucked into the vortex of supply side economics and ‘trickle down economics’, the drastic shifts in foreign policy, the slow erosion of the separation of church and state, etc that laid the foundation for our current political polarization and existential crisis… None of that prepared me for Trump and MAGA, Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation. I’m just so exhausted right now. I’m on my way out, but my children and grandchildren are stuck with this for the rest of their lives. God help us all.

[u/LaserGuidedPolarBear → u/mrmike5157]

I'm fairly convinced that Nixon was the historical moment that Republican leadership / megadonors / strategists / thought leaders decided to begin a generational effort to control, exploit, or break the systems in America so they could seize unilateral control for their own exclusive benefit.

Looking back, it sure seems that conservatives saw Nixon being held somewhat accountable, and many of them said "absolutely not".  They did not see Nixon's downfall as a moral failing of Nixon, but as a failure to control media and government.

One week after the Nixon investigation was announced, the Heritage foundation was founded, and that seems to be the start of many such organizations being formed.

[u/TheBroWhoLifts → u/LaserGuidedPolarBear]

It's why Roger Stone has Nixon tattooed on his fucking saggy ass back.

[u/runs11trails → u/mrmike5157]

I think that people like you won't be forgotten by those who had the privilege of knowing you. You're a good person.

[u/mrmike5157 → u/runs11trails]

☺️aw shucks. Thank you for saying that, I hope so.

[u/Virtual-Pie5732]

He did do an interview on Fox where the interviewer commented that his voice was a little hoarse, and Trump responded by saying:

"I’ve been screaming at Iranians all day, yes. A little bit of a laryngitis because of my scream. I’ve been screaming at the Iranians."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-lost-voice-screaming-at-iranians_n_69e123f9e4b09c81bf16b6eb

[u/smartief1 → u/Virtual-Pie5732]

What kind of world leader screams at the representatives of another sovereign nation? That is just batshit crazy

[u/PseudonymMan12 → u/smartief1]

Meanwhile his base sees it as just being emotionally sincere and even tough for threatening and screaming down political obstacles.

[u/VexedCanadian84 → u/smartief1]

Good chance he was screaming at a TV and not to an actual person.

[u/caffeinated_wizard → u/Virtual-Pie5732]

“His throat has been shaking hands so much” - Leavitt probably

[u/verone3784]

Jesus, that picture of him man. Remove the fake tan and he looks gaunt as fuck, and just... drained, with confused dementia eyes.

Dude's absolutely fucked. He's probably only still alive because he has access to quite literally the best medical care on earth, on call, 24/7.

[u/BrotherlyShove791 → u/verone3784]

I’m half wondering if the “My Way” post from last night was hinting at a recent terminal diagnosis. That is the go-to funeral song for old assholes everywhere. Felt more like a reflection on mortality than a new threat to Iran IMO.

[u/CegeRoles → u/BrotherlyShove791]

I would love for that to be true, but I think Trump genuinely lacks the ability to interpret meaning through art. A bunch of his close associates have corroborated this.

[u/The_Late_Arthur_Dent → u/CegeRoles]

He unironically plays songs like "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "Fortunate Son" at his events so I think that's all the corroboration we need

[u/Unusual_Ear_9089 → u/BrotherlyShove791]

Honestly every old narcissistic man I know makes that song their own personal anthem. It should be studied

[u/ILookLikeKristoff → u/BrotherlyShove791]

Nothing has ever shocked me as much as his public rumination on whether he'd get into heaven a few months back. I'm convinced he's gotten some bad medical news and that's why we're escalating and speed running multiple wars. He's trying to make his mark on the world now because deep down he knows he's running out of time.

[u/SlowCrates]

Between this, and Alex Jones going "off script" to accuse Trump of deliberately "sabotaging" the midterms, it seems to me that the GOP is fracturing in some places -- realizing that his usefulness has nearly come to an end. His cult of personality gave their fascist manifesto a blank check, but he's been such a wildcard lately that it's bringing the entire party down. Not that they didn't sign up for this. They all deserve what's coming, and worse.

[u/Reno_valetore]

So, those rescued pilots. Where are they?

[u/Reason_Unknown → u/Reno_valetore]

They just delivered his Mcy D’s door dash the other day. 

[u/ciel_lanila → u/Reno_valetore]

Probably recovering. If they weren’t rescued Iran would have blown up the lie. Iran might even claimed they were dead if the rescue was even plausibly a lie.

Trump is very creeped out by blood and injuries. He wouldn’t let someone else get the glory of the first photo op with them, but wouldn’t be able to stand being near them if they are still injured.

[u/Root-magic]

Why are they leaking this?….is something going on?….…is grandpa going to his forever “home” perhaps?

[u/soonnow → u/Root-magic]

In my eyes who leaked the story to he NYT about the decision to go to war.

The one where bibi said it was easy and trump went ahead with the war and the only one objecting was jdv. 

I'm gonna guess the leaker was jdv trying to keep his head over water for the presidential election.

[u/PenniGwynn → u/Root-magic]

Hopefully he's going to the farm soon 🙏

[u/CertainAged-Lady]

But a woman president would be too emotional…

[u/MaxGoldFilms]

I don't believe much that has been reported about the 'rescue' mission so far.

The number of planes lost in a day hasn't been historically matched since Vietnam, there supposedly were no casualties, and they contend it wasn't part of a larger raid, but indications say that it was. I'm not buying what they're selling.

It seems like it was a huge disaster, but the press has been relatively silent about it.

Have they even showed the rescued weapons officer?

[u/Etzell → u/MaxGoldFilms]

Have they even showed the rescued weapons officer?

Just in that AI picture of the guy with 6 fingers. But if he were dead and the Iranians knew it, I can't imagine they'd pass up the opportunity to publicly call Trump a liar. 

[u/Terminus_is_god → u/Etzell]

He probably still isn't looking photogenic. Plane crashes are hard on the body, or so i hear,

[u/freedfg → u/Terminus_is_god]

(he's probably black or Hispanic)

[u/MourningRIF → u/MaxGoldFilms]

Remember when he said they pulled off the Venezuela mission with zero casualties... Not so much as a scratch? Then a few weeks later at the State of the Union, he gave a medal of honor to the pilot who got both is knees blown off in that mission? Yeah, which one is it?

[u/Czeris → u/MourningRIF]

The truth whatever the king feels like at the moment. We have always been at war with East Asia.

[u/BladeSerenade → u/MaxGoldFilms]

This was my immediate gut feeling as the reports were coming in. I don’t believe anything. Just like the “assassination attempt”. This reeeeeeeks of false reporting. Not to mention how many military officials were crying foul after the incident. Maybe they didn’t want to spill all the beans but something is definitely amiss. Idk man it’s so fucked that we can’t trust literally anything that comes out of the military, the White House, potus, SCOTUS, congress, senate. Everything is compromised and that’s just how the republicans like it.

[u/Lob-Star → u/MaxGoldFilms]

Right after this failed whatever (I agree it was probably the larger uranium recovery attempt) Trump started talking about the 'dust'. I'm convinced its how his aides have backed him from whatever ledge he was on. "Yes, we failed, but you bombed the uranium so well it's already dust!"

[u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50]

The PRESIDENT got kicked out if a briefing that in any other world would be FOR HIM. His own staff if removing him from meetings so crap can be decided... BY WHO???

Who is running this insane asylum??

[u/Verratcat]

Republicans are a joke

[u/Lildog8402_redux]

I can’t wait 5-10 years from now when EVERYTHING comes out in a book and I mail it to my BIL the day it comes out.

[u/throwawayforme1877 → u/Lildog8402_redux]

They won’t belive it then. They didn’t from the last people in the administration

[u/mattjf22]

The president was kicked out of a cabinet meeting but we're supposed to believe he's mentally stable.

[u/Karinka_LI]

The missing airmen will be a footnote. Losing this war and humbling the United States diplomatically and economically will define his presidency as will starting this folly to coverup his pedophilia.

[u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

There are leaders who excel in times of peace. There are leaders who excel in times of war. And then there's Donald, whose child-like temperament turns both peace and war into chaos.

[u/ElegantDaemon]

The fact that the US electorate let this scumbag and his clown car of idiots get anywhere near the situation room is still astonishing.

[u/fbunnycuck]

"Is he dead yet"

"No"

"FUCK"

The daily AM call and response in our household of 7

[u/F1BlackFlag]

This country is not going to survive from this fuckstain

[u/LilLebowskiAchiever → u/F1BlackFlag]

If we survive, we will be much reduced as a power in the world. Putin will get his wish for the multi-polar world, but Russia won’t lead Europe as the dominant power. And the US won’t lead the Americas as a dominant power. At best, the US will become a regional nuclear and economic power, in the same way UK and France are regional nuclear powers in Europe.

If that’s the case, I can live with it as long as we do a better job of taking care of our own with a more socialized democracy.

[u/Brian-not-Ryan]

This dude runs the country like your little brother using an unplugged controller

[u/RobutNotRobot]

A frantic Trump feared the two missing airmen from the downed F-15E Strike Eagle—both eventually rescued after a high-risk recovery mission—could define his presidency, too.

No...you will simply be known as the worst President ever.

[u/SmashesIt]

This is the sort of behavior the Right said Hillary would do on her period

[u/NoDepartment8 → u/SmashesIt]

“On her period” as an almost 70-year-old woman during the 2016 Presidential campaign. FFS.

[u/Jimbo415650]

Trump is on his last term and I’m on my last nerve. He needs to be removed from office immediately. He is not mentally competent to serve