Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

in a slightly better alternate universe, instead of trump getting enraged by obama at the press dinner in 2011 (reminder: trump was enraged by obama because obama had the nerve to make a joke making light of how trump had led a global racist movement targeting obama's birth certificate) and becoming president and shitting all over this country's dinner, he could have instead been enraged by SNL making fun of him and instead taken over SNL and made the show even worse, somehow. but i suppose entertainment and politics are forever entwined now

basically he was Victor Orban without the cunning

Ron DeSantis is doing quite well with the dead enders. Don't be surprised if the money people turn to him.

DeSantis is a fuckin' monster.

Our friends on this thread will soon find out.

Don't worry, I believe both of you! No need to have him foisted on us to understand, we don't doubt his monstrosity.

hoping he gets completely destroyed in the lawsuits over the illegal Big Tech 'fine' system he signed into law

i don't wish DeSantis on anybody. Gillum might have alcohol issues but he's someone I would have trusted.

Abbott seems to be gunning for the role of biggest GOP monster, governor division.

in retrospect, it's amazing that all-time classic ilxor abbbbbbotttttt knew to modify her name before Abbott came on the national scene

amusingly, In the Heights removed its only reference to Donald Trump from the lyrics to "96,000" for the movie

changed it to Tiger Woods

The brother of a friend just completed a book on the Toronto Argos' 1991 Grey Cup. (If you're not from Canada, don't worry about that part.) Trump gets a brief mention in the book, I believe because of some connection to Bruce McNall, co-owner of the team (with John Candy and Wayne Gretzky) who went on to serve time in prison.

Anyway, the punch line: the league's commissioner at the time, mentioned throughout the book, was a guy named Donald Crump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crump

is he still alive

Yep
I refuse to die until he does

You shouldn't say those things about Donald Crump.

From Don Jr’s Instagram pic.twitter.com/ES16TszXz7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 13, 2021

Dear MAGA

lol

Lmao

Every other city we go
Every other video
No matter where I go
I ain't President no mo

I always figured Trump was "doing" somebody vocally and obv DJT is a philistine who knows jack shit about movies but *somehow*, at some point, William Friedkin ended up in the mix. (Along with Lieutenant Columbo saying "terrific" all the time.) pic.twitter.com/5BK8BwIHY4

— // jbl (@neurasthenya) July 14, 2021

A little disappointed that the clip isn't Friedkin in the Cruising making of doc saying 'leather bar' 38 different times.

🐦[From Don Jr’s Instagram pic.twitter.com/ES16TszXz7🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 13, 2021🕸]🐦

Don Jr. will be the Republican nominee sometime in the future, and no doubt the general election will be a toss-up. Well done, everybody.

He Wish

Nothing too surprising here, except perhaps the leak itself:

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.

There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.

There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

so the fact that this leaked from the kremlin makes me mistrust it. especially because the kremlin themselves are denying it, creating these mixed messages. it seems like a surkovian stunt -- something the kremlin might have put out there to kick some dust in the air and put trump back in the news cycle.

this is what they do.

In contemporary Russia, unlike the old USSR or present-day North Korea, the stage is constantly changing: the country is a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy at lunch, an oligarchy by suppertime, while, backstage, oil companies are expropriated, journalists killed, billions siphoned away. Surkov is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next. It's a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it's indefinable.

— Peter Pomerantsev, in "Putin's Rasputin", London Review of Books issue of 20 October 2011

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/politics/kfile-pac-trump-robocall-operation/index.html

I'm just a few paragraphs into this and it's already hilarious

Hate the game, not the playa

they raise money to pay for robocalls so they can raise more money to pay for more robocalls

^^Best Spaceman 3 Album

Is the big man gettin his beak wet in this scam? He’s usuallyso protective of his image!

I so wish there was video (got to be on surveilance) of the Trumps melting down realizing he lost. Someday (hopefully) that is going to be some funny shit on a movie or TV show.

Bugfuck thing I forgot about the previous administration #543: Trump autographing giant portraits of murder victims held up by their families at an anti-immigration presser in 2018.

As Biden delivers a speech at the White House today on crime, I was reminded of the time Trump did that and autographed photos of murder victims -- low key one of the most bizarre political moments of the last five years. https://t.co/0Sp9NK4SEH

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2021

Trump holds up an autographed photo of a murder victim, quips that the man is "Tom Selleck, except better looking." pic.twitter.com/8iOsdCT4xo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 22, 2018

jfc that second clip. thank you so much for the compliment about my son looking like tom selleck only better

Definitely makes those homicide photos more appealing on Antiques Roadshow

lol

i would like to see them assess the value of those autographed photos. holy shit

In the great flood of raw sewage that was the Trump presidency it's his shining moments like this, or when he started rambling about New York cocktail parties to a Boy Scout Jamboree, that illustrate that he is completely unable to empathize with other human beings on any level whatsoever.

That lack of empathy can on the rare occasion produce gold however, such as when he asked the 7-year old kid if he still believed in Santa, "because at that age it's kind of marginal, right?"

he wasn't a regular guy

i continue to wonder if i made him up

my mouth isn’t filled with bloodm it’s victory wine https://t.co/TR2Ao1UisP

— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 28, 2021

this seems very illegal

Donald Trump to DOJ last December: "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me" https://t.co/iMWh3QxhHa

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 30, 2021

When you're president they let you do it.

but somehow, they just can't find the evidence and prove that he was the most corrupt president in our lifetime, easily outranking nixon. it's just too hard to prove it, i guess. federal law, state law, local law, natural law, lord of the flies, martial law - none of them can contain his genius. he is just too tricky, too smart for anyone to bring down. trump is such a smart guy, he really is. great job law!!

only marshall law from tekken could take trump down, which is why trump won't even agree to fight him

I'm so sick of that fuckchop, I wish he would choke on a McRib and die die die

Whoops!

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department tells Treasury to turn over Trump tax returns to Congress.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 30, 2021

Oh ho ho