Summary
Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.
The “Signalgate” scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.
Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.
And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.
Wouldn’t be wild to say that there’s some dementia and cognitive decline going on with Trump. I’m not saying this as a joke or insult, the guy is seriously behaving randomly and people around his are too scared to disagree.
It wouldn’t be wild, it’d be accurate. The man has dementia. I’m on mobile and not inclined to tap out all of the indicators, but remember when he abruptly stopped speaking at a campaign rally, and just kind of swayed to his music playlist for 39 minutes, or when he described in detail the literal, giant faucet in British Columbia that he seemed to think that Canada uses to control water to the West Coast? (Or the literal dome over Israel?) Both losing track of time and losing the ability to process metaphorical speech are symptoms of dementia. Why else would his doctors have administered that cognitive test that he bragged that he aced?
Symptoms
Dementia symptoms vary depending on the cause. Common symptoms include:
Cognitive changes
Memory loss, which is usually noticed by someone else.
Problems communicating or finding words.
Trouble with visual and spatial abilities, such as getting lost while driving.
Problems with reasoning or problem-solving.
Trouble performing complex tasks.
Trouble with planning and organizing.
Poor coordination and control of movements.
Confusion and disorientation.
Psychological changes
Personality changes.
Depression.
Anxiety.
Agitation.
Inappropriate behavior.
Being suspicious, known as paranoia.
Seeing things that aren’t there, known as hallucinations.
Like when no one wants to take Grandpa’s car keys.
It’s definitely possible. We may just be seeing his true self more though
That’s how Fascism works.
I’m not American but, from what I’ve seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.
Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.
This is going to be an even more interesting time in the coming weeks. When animals are cornered, things get very ugly. And we’re beyond ugly already with almost half of Project 2025 implemented already.
Fred Trump’s dementia is the gift he gave his son Donald and the American people. Seriously outside of a couple people that whole family is a net drain on humanity
“Friends”
Obviously nonsense. He doesn’t have any friends.
He had so many ways of consolidating his grasp on his realm without looking like a total buffoon. That alone gives me hope.
The one thing that might save us is the MAGA obsession with forcing their virtuosic incompetence on everything and everyone. Their inevitable failure is built into their system.
Meanwhile, anyone with competence and experience is now playing for the opposing team, so if the Dems can manage to regain power, they will have a deep bench to draw from.
A very Fisherian / žižekian critique. Aptly said.
He has two options: 1) Stop doing stupid shit, or 2) Destroy the media, replace it with propaganda outlets.
Guess which one he’ll do.
You forgot #3, do something else crazy to try and distract from this failure. But #2 is definitely in the cards as well.
Oh, to be a ketchup stain on the wall…
It’s probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.
100%
And Hitler was known for sharing the contents of his bowels.
Literally Shitler
The fact that McHitler hasn’t stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.
Around 13,000 children under the age of 5 die every day. I’d love to see god explain that lol
Lucifer: I’m not in the business of murdering innocent children. That’s God’s jurisdiction.
- The Devil’s Carnival
“I work in mysterious ways.”
- God (probably)
“We didn’t start the fire. It’s always been burning since the world’s been turning…”
God: “No, yeah, that was me. I started it. Flicked over the first domino. Still watching the picture unfold. Quite the sight, wish you could see it.”
Been thinking about that myself, with my shitty religious upbringing. This is what god wants. And, if you’re Jewish and you’ve at least heard the phrase “god’s chosen people,” I just wonder how you square that with one of the worst people to live having killed 6 million of them. God was really looking out for the chosen people that day, let me tell ya…
My ex, who is Jewish, told me “chosen” is more like “singled out.”
My dad is 60 and has had a stroke in Janurary. He’s far from perfect, but he’s been a good role model for me, made me a better person, and helped me when I realized my mom was more insane each passing day.
This fucker is the oldest president, looks worse than his age, is angry 24/7, and hasn’t had one.
Life is a cruel joke.
God realized they fucked up with all us uppity hyper-hierarchical monkeys and is going for a hard reset, or never existed. Change my mind.
If god, in the christian, all-knowing and all-powerful sense even exists, she must fucking hate us, because she allowed Drumf to happen. I could never venerate a god who is that callous and spiteful.
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
St. George Carlin
LOL. What a treasure !
Unless Trump is the antichrist, then God intended for it to happen.
hes a low-level demon escaped from hell, anti-christ would have been able to warp reality one of the key feature of its powers
He’s able to do that for 1/3 of the US population.
If there is a god, he’s incompetent at best, and more likely, an asshole who is doing this shit on purpose.
Maybe who you think god is is all wrong? Maybe it’s the other guy or girl or it who’s really in charge.
Maybe God isnt all powerful and is forced to watch all she made kill itself over and over in ever more savage ways.
God realized how badly She fucked up and died of Chrstian pity.
The only justice in this world is the justice we make.
And the media is playing softball with him. This is the media not calling him out on all his bullshit.
Exactly. If we actually had a real oppositional “liberal media”, they’d be tearing this asshat a new one for his dumbfuckery.
The owners of the media are not on our side.
But Trump is starting to hurt their treasure hordes.
I thought he would’ve been impeached by now. I am a bit surprised he hasn’t been.
By the Republicans? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
By anyone. It’s not like democrats were particularly interested.
Well he has been twice so they tried I guess.
The orange cunt would have an aneurysm if only the “Press” actually treated him fairly. Instead they sane wash his bullshit, and tiptoe around him without ever using the words “Liar”, “convicted felon” or “rapist”… The press have never treated anyone so favorably, and still he whines and cries like a stuck little pig. He gets $1 billion free publicity every single day. Fuck him with a cactus. No lube ! Edit: And fuck the press! They are responsible for Drumpf!
Leave the poor cactus out of this. This is why man invented angle grinders.
What about providing him gympie-gympie toilet paper?
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3 words: Gympie-Gympie enema
Mea culpa! I bow to the almighty angle grinders!
a cholla cactus.
MSM heavily benefited from trump being center of attention, and most of them are owned by conservatives anyways. just like fb, youtube, reddit right wing gaffes drives traffic.
Time to make their actions criminal imo, although that is just a pipedream currently. They are all traitors.
If we ever get out of this mess and have our own version of the Nuremberg trials I hope to see many media execs and on-air personalities (obviously especially but not limited to those of Fox News) hanged for their part in all of this.
Amen, bro !
Who knew that hiring people based on how much they suck up to you would mean that everyone on your team (including yourself) is incompetent?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I mean, it’s worked for him in the private sector. Didn’t scale up.
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He also seemingly selected some of them by watching what they did on the TeeVee. I guess he thought that’s pretty much how HE got there, since he had that stupid game show, so…
His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered?
What plans? He’s not even tried to do either one in even a meaningless, symbolic way.
I’m so fucking tired of the incessant sane-washing. Just constant gaslighting from all sides to make me feel crazy for freaking out about this shit. I’m sick of it
For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I’m sure he’s still trying though.
I’m so tired of all the “reasonable language” used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that’s me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.
his son-in law of his daughter he lusts, kushner has planned real estate there too.
Be fair. He tried nothing and is all out of ideas.
Well he did yell at Zelensky?
His plan was to pressure them the way he’s used to pressuring people in his business dealings. The only problem is that countries like Ukraine aren’t just businesses that he can stiff, drag to court, etc.
His attempt was a concept of a plan.
His plans were to reward the aggressors and try to grab a piece of the carcass from the other vultures.
I’m supposing this dumbfuck really thought he was going to get praise for this?
The problem is that he’s been safely ensconced in a bubble his entire fucking life. He’s Patient Zero when it comes to rich white failsons failing upwards, FFS.
He thought he could make more fake deals and get good press, but the nihilist tech bro backed death cult had other ideas.
yeah some progressive senator/rep was saying this was actually 10d chess on trump’s part to extract concessions from industries in exchange for tariff relief, and, maybe, but also, you know, there is the other explanation
If, by “concessions,” they meant bribes, that might be true.
this was actually 10d chess on trump’s part to extract concessions
It’s called a shakedown. Instead of actually talking to someone, start by threatening them then extract concessions. Best deal maker ever
