Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

this is my favorite historical comparison

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169159

Oh, yeah, I also thought of Commodus.

i guess if huey long had lived and become president we would have seen something similarly bizarre.

AG James is rubbing it in live right now. gotcha, asshole!

Injecting that Schadenfreude directly into my veins.

Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary proceeding in DC continues not to go well for him and his X timeline is positively deranged.

Just a snippet from last fall:

The committee rejected the motion two days after it was entered, writing that Clark "has continually misrepresented [the] disciplinary counsel's theory of the case to manufacture imaginary defenses."

Is it a parody account? I cannot tell.

I've said this more than once in this thread, but I am still amazed by Trump's ability to get people to immolate themselves for him. It's as though he taps into their secret desire for power, celebrity or recognition, gives them a little taste, then discards them when they have ceased to be of use. And at this point, everyone who gets on board the Trump Train knows they are going to be thrown off at some point.

Does Dancing With The Stars pay a lot? I assume people trip over themselves to join the Trump team in order to set up some kind of eventual reality TV payoff.

do you know what's going to be really sad? that first time that eric trump goes into a new york bank and reaches for the basket of lollipops and they slap his hand away. that's going to sting the most.

Lol

And at this point, everyone who gets on board the Trump Train knows they are going to be thrown off at some point.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

I can't help but think many of them are convinced that *they'll* be the one to come out on top.

tbf cozying up to powerful people is usually a pretty good plan

Trump wants to appeal, his lawyers are playing along

I have probably said this, but it remains moderately amusing that he is probably never going to pay any of his lawyers.

suspect theyre demanding the money up front at this point

Supposedly Kise demanded 3 million up front. Smart.

Trump's not going to pay his lawyers but his donors are.

In 2023, Trump spent $54.2 million raised almost exclusively from donors who gave $5 or $20 or $50 a month ― a vast number of them retirees ― to pay lawyers defending the former president in the various civil and criminal cases, a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings found.

350 + 83 for the Jean Carrol case, is 433 million a lot

― a (waterface), Friday, February 16, 2024 3:47 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think Musk will pay off 13 million so Trump will only owe…

I'm so tired about caring about this man.

Truth.

I remember thinking, in (say) December 2020, “soon I won’t have to ever think about this asshole or his family again.”

He's the stinking fish that keeps being delivered to our doorsteps by the Republican Party and our many compassion-impaired compatriots.

Classic.

https://bsky.app/profile/ygalanter.bsky.social/post/3klnhhpxe7o27

“Bold, gold, and tough, just like President Trump.”

What’s the matter, no rhyme for orange?

I just can’t even with his grifts anymore. But I’m not the audience; they’re sold out already.

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saucy!

Somebody at last is allowing their underling to get drunk at happy hour and post on the job.

The future of Trump's gold shoes? Everything old becomes new again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3Z_Kskl_U

not a yuge surprise, but...

Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list

yeah, questioning the election results and inciting an insurrection really sunk him from a Harding/A. Johnson type of corrupt horrible president to sub-Buchanan levels

Direct link to the list: http://www.brandonrottinghaus.com/uploads/1/0/8/7/108798321/presidential_greatness_white_paper_2024.pdf

Some of the worst stinkers:

29 Hayes
30 Garfield
31 Harrison
32 GW Bush
33 Arthur
34 Coolidge
35 Nixon
36 Hoover
37 Tyler
38 Taylor
39 Fillmore
40 Harding
41 Harrison
42 Pierce
43 A. Johnson
44 Buchanan
45 Trump

So gratifying to watch Jackson earn the ignominy he long deserved.

GW Bush way too high, for all his faults Trump didn't murder over a million Iraqis

But he did nominate judges and justices who will hurt or kill millions of American women.

45 means 45

lmao at everyone below Harrison, how badly do you have to fuck up to be worse than the the guy who immediately contracted pneumonia and died at the start of his presidency

If he becomes 47 too does he get two bottom spots?

Doughfaces like Pierce and Buchanan who licked the pro-slavery contingent every chance they got; racists like Andrew Johnson who vetoed every Reconstruction bill. xpost

I know why they are there, I am laughing at them for being unable to surmount the presumably low bar of “died almost immediately upon assuming office”

yeah but what an inauguration

can't do much damage when yer dead

Many presidents' standings would be improved by dying in the first weeks of their term.

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I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor.

It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can

— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) December 16, 2023

GW Bush way too high, for all his faults Trump didn't murder over a million Iraqis

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, February 20, 2024 12:32 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

But he did nominate judges and justices who will hurt or kill millions of American women.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 20, 2024 12:33 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Alfred, I adore you, but this seems an inadvertent diminution of one of the worst tragedies to take place in our lifetimes.

xpost it's like diarrhea mixed with milk chocolate, but the chocolate was from 1987

I once read a historian describe Pierce as a functionally illiterate alcoholic.

They misspelled "Eau de Parm" on that cologne. Or maybe "Eau de Farm"? Maybe a mix of both.

Alfred, I adore you, but this seems an inadvertent diminution of one of the worst tragedies to take place in our lifetimes.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), T

dude, it's a race to the bottom. I've yelled at more people who say "Bush wasn't so bad" than you will care to know. I'll never forgive him for Iraq. And it's no stretch to argue that in the coming years that one-term Trump administration will have killed more people.

But a Stalin v. Hitler body count battle isn't a scrimmage so I'll stop here.

Pierce and Buchanan's policies precipitated if not caused a civil war. Andrew Johnson acted as if the freedmen didn't exist. Bush and Trump (and Reagan and Poppy) found novel ways to demonstrate our imperialism and racism, respectively.

https://i.imgur.com/sdG2onM.jpg