Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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i suppose 'classic' in that he's all a lot of people can think about or talk about and his brain dmamage is so powerful it's infected the world

p bad president and person tho

takes balls to rock that combover day in and out

I can see the blood from the man-flesh on his teeth!

What you lookin' at?
You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be?
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say,
"That's the bad guy.
" So... what that make you? Good? You're not good.
You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy!
Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!

You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is - you're fired. The bad news is - you've got, all of you've got just one week to regain your jobs starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh? Have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money, get their names to sell them; you can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit. You ARE shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT!

Search: "move on her like a bitch"

Destroy: everything else

"Trump never said he had tapes, he just inferred that he did. And it is not intimidating a witness since Comey is telling the truth and knew that any tapes would prove his version of events."

everyone is classic but not everyone should be president

President Don once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine

Trump lingered last in line for brains
And the one he got was sorta rotten and insane
Small hands (so sad!), a rust-hued clown
Is Trump fast asleep or rockin' out with Three Doors Down?

Murricuns electing Donald Trump: Classic or dud?

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haven't thought about this guy for a while. i think he was popular in the 80s?

Overrated

I think he'd make really great hog slurry. You can really tell a lot about a man by the way his pureed corpus fills a trough.

red means 'run, son. numbers add up to nothin'
. . .
shelter me from the putin and the banker
i bankrupted casinos. who the fuck does that?

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#daddy

#dilfsinjocks

wasting his finite reserves of energy there

Cronenbergian

Like a hastily-assembled meat collage.

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

also the media love/hate thing is so cute. get a room you two.

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“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

He is only as wicked and hellspawned as the hatred and resentment simmering in the heartland of the most violent nation ever

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

you suggest Panama?

the 1997 NYer profile of Trump is start-to-finish amazing but if I had to pick a favorite part it's this https://t.co/reqFZ79eZd pic.twitter.com/Qnwnuiyxqh

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 23, 2017

hard to tell who is more obsessed with him the right or the left.

libs/"centrists" for sure

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

*not adjusted for population inflation

indicative of a deep flaw in our universe

truly he is king of the narcissist personality disorder sufferers

i think jesus still beats him out unless we're only counting contemporaneous fame

Michael Jackson sold a hundred million records

contemporaneous fame. MJ is up there but there are twice as many people on Earth now than there were in 1984.

Donlad Turmp sold a hundred million and one. Sad!

Part of my problem is that I have to do a lot of things myself. It takes so much time. Julio Iglesias is coming to Mar-a-Lago, but I have to call Julio, I have to have lunch with Julio. I have Pavarotti coming. Pavarotti doesn’t perform for anybody. He’s the highest-paid performer in the world. A million dollars a performance. The hardest guy to get. If I call him, he’ll do it—for a huge amount less. Why? Because they like me, they respect me, I don’t know.

I think you might need to look into a thing called history if you think this is the most violent nation ever.

idk Native American genocide plus slavery plus nuclear bomb-dropping... surely we're in the running

probably a million people killed by u.s. in vietnam/laos/cambodia. nobody will ever know how many. not pol pot numbers, but still...

mao would be the world champ though.

it's sobering to realize that Trump is probably the most famous person in human history now

this is a ridiculous statement

Man, if only Trump would tweet that he's bigger than Jesus...

well he's certainly fatter

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stahp posting this I cant handle it

The relatively-youthful US has certainly done what it could to catch up with the accrued violence of much older nations, I'll grant you that. Maybe Donnie will get us there.

My god, it's made of scrote.

I feel badly for his clothes.

trump wearing a shirt with "trump" on it is like that thing where ppl wear band t-shirts to the same band's concert only 1000x worse

Pro? Con? Jealous?

Holy shit, someone just set themselves on fire outside the court room?!

Meantime the six alternates have been chosen, we have a full jury selection.

Trump should self-immolate.

did that wake him up? xxpost

Outside the courthouse rather than the room itself per NYT:

A young man set himself on fire after dousing himself with a flammable liquid in Collect Pond Park, across from the courthouse. As onlookers screamed, bright orange flames engulfed the man.

He was in the area of the park cordoned-off for Trump supporters, around two dozen of whom fled screaming.

The heat of the flames of the burning man could be felt a hundred feet away.

The man threw multicolored pamphlets in the air before lighting himself on fire. It is unclear what motivated his action.

It took several minutes for police officers to rush to the scene. A detective who was early to arrive tried to smother the man — who had collapsed — with his coat to extinguish the flames. Soon, dozens of officers swarmed the scene and began using a fire extinguisher.

The man was still moving as officers knelt beside him and asked his name. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken away.

Classic NYT headline tease:

Twelve jurors and six alternates have been chosen in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump. Outside the courthouse, a man set himself on fire.

there were bigly tears...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcmG2knXCKQ

The man threw multicolored pamphlets in the air before lighting himself on fire. It is unclear what motivated his action.

"I mean, I guess we could have read one of the pamphlets before filing this story, now that you mention it..."

Trump's lawyers find a potential alternates old social media posts, including one assailing Trump's "sociopathic incompetence."

Judge: Does that describe your feelings at that time?

"I wouldn’t say that’s far off-base," he says.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 19, 2024

Another one of his old posts said of Trump:

"I do actually believe that he’s the devil."

He says, "At that time, yeah, I may have thought that."

He's excused for cause.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 19, 2024

The man threw multicolored pamphlets in the air before lighting himself on fire. It is unclear what motivated his action.

did anyone read the pamphlet? might be a clue in there.

xpost

Also the rest of today is a Sandoval hearing, which translates as the prosecutors going "Oh, he says he wants to testify? Sure thing your honor, we'd like to ask him about all his other convictions on the record." (Among other things.) Judge has to sign off on it, thus the hearing.

Meiselas: What I’m hearing from credible sources is that Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom… I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s kind of falling asleep, he’s actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. pic.twitter.com/wa6F3iRDgX

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 19, 2024

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idontwanttobreathe

I have a hectic morning at work and all THIS happens and I miss it

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#onethread

taking the FART act a little too literally

One Trump
One Fart
Let's get together and
reek all night

It might have been even more tragic had Trump farted too close to the person that self-immolated. (Too soon?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCH3HN2S7E

maybe better to wait a bit to discover the self-immolator's mental state

The guy who self-immolated has an online manifesto that is a bit hard to nail down ideologically. It's a theory about Peter Thiel and a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, but then goes on to talk about how Bill Clinton was mean to Dukakis and maybe had Epstein set-up Rob Lowe because he was a Dukakis supporter.

sounds... unsound

His sign said, "Trump is with Biden and They're About to Fascist Coup Us."

manifesto also has a long digression about the Simpsons monorail episode.

not joking

xposts
The fArt of the Deal

Just out of curiosity does anyone know if Aaron Rodgers is at the Jets voluntary minicamp today?

That guy would rather set himself on fire then report to any sort of camp voluntarily. Freedom!!

Apparently, the guy who set himself on fire was not concerned about Trump at all, pro or con. He had a long online manifesto about cryptocurrency and some grievances he had against NYU, but he knew where the reporters were gonna be.

And to think, Trump probably slept through the whole thing, poor little guy.

“He knew where the reporters were gonna be” for May thread title

self-immolator also had a laura dern podcast called dern after reading

Guilty lolz

Went and read it. Was not pro trump like I expected. Kind of a despairing anticapitalism run through a conspiracy blender and WTF close readings of classic simpsons episodes. Made me sad more than anything.

kinda seemed like the QAnon Shaman guy

Letitia James has asked Judge Engoron to reject Trump's $175 million bond, on the grounds that the company he used is not financially sound. Link here.

Got to give her credit, she is not fucking around.

Manifesto guy bundled lots of his stuff together into a pamphlet called Dipshit Secrets of our Rotten World, which is applause worthy.

I would have read it

its not fair that Trump's the one on trial and yet it's everyone else who's getting the gas chamber

And how to end your Friday per the NYT:

Jesse McKinley
April 19, 2024, 4:30 p.m. ET20 minutes ago

“Sir, can you please have a seat?” the judge says to Trump, as he rises before court is adjourned.

Maggie Haberman
April 19, 2024, 4:30 p.m. ET19 minutes ago

Justice Merchan has left the bench. Trump is standing and looking around the room.

Jonah Bromwich
April 19, 2024, 4:31 p.m. ET19 minutes ago

Trump walks out of the courtroom, patting the bench behind the defense table like an old friend as he goes.

After Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asked again for the name of at least the first witness, Steinglass said he would tell Trump’s counsel the name on Sunday, but if the identity is tweeted before Monday, “that will be the last time.”