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Donald Trump dropped down in Ankara, Türkiye, for the big NATO summit, and wasted no time confirming every European leader’s worst instincts about whether or not the United States is any longer their friend.
You see, the stupid senile bitch Trump still thinks that part of the NATO deal is that the other members should jump up to help every time Benjamin Netanyahu tricks him into starting a war no other American president was stupid enough to start. He thinks they owe that to him. He thinks that’s part of Article 5. He’s the stupidest, most useless brain of any human who’s ever taken up space on God’s green earth.
So he arrived in Ankara and, during a press availability with Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, immediately started in babbling about his Greenland shit again.
“Greenland doesn’t help Denmark, Denmark doesn’t spend money to really help Greenland, but it’s an important part for the United States,” the president continued.
Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” he concluded.
Sorry about all this yet again, Europe.
Notably, it was reported this weekend that France has had to prepare for the very real possibility of a “shooting war” with the US over Greenland. Now here comes Trump to start running his fucking mouth about that again, and Danish PM Mette Fredriksen is having to reiterateat NATO that she will defend Greenland, and that it’s “not for sale.”
Trump also continued yesterday to make threats to remove troops from Europe, said hopeful words about a peace deal for his father Putin in Russia and Ukraine (despite how his opinion on the matter is less than irrelevant), and said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a “nice person,” while whining some more that she wouldn’t help him bomb Iran at Netanyahu’s request. This, despite how just this weekend, he was still fanning the flames of the stupid feud he started with her by telling pathetic, unbelievable lies about her wanting to be in the same room with him.
He also recommenced his bitching that if it hadn’t been for the foul fucking dictator he was meeting with at the time, for whom he’s always had a little Trumpy boner, he might not have even come to the NATO summit:
“I was very disappointed with NATO, and frankly, if it weren’t held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, it’s possible that I wouldn’t have attended. I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he’s gone all out.”
Did y’all hear about trashball Erdoğan’s latest stunt, denying a gay cruise ship permission to dock in Istanbul because of the homosexual lifestyle? Motherfucker does not belong in a community of respected nations like NATO, but we understand why they might keep him there as a means of controlling him. (It’s good that Turkey’s bid for European Union membership is forever stalled.)
Of course, the same could probably be said for the United States these days.
Anyway, back to Trump’s humiliation of himself and of the United States!
Here is Trump today in a press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, HEREBY DEMANDING an end to all trade with Spain, including tourism!
“Spain is a wasted cause. We don’t want to do any trade business with Spain, please. […] Cut off all trade with Spain, please! Including visits, OK? We don’t want anything to do, watch them come running back …”
Can Trump actually do that unilaterally? Of course not, but he’s too stupid to understand that. And of course only 4.9 percent of Spain’s exports — 18 billion euros worth — head to the United States, whereas 23 billion euros worth of goods come from the US to Spain. Trump knows nothing about trade, but that’s called a trade surplus.
As for the tourism, does Trump think Spaniards are flocking to American shores? Or is he going to try to ban Americans from visiting Spain, AKA the second-most-visited tourism destination in the world?
Just curious how the dumb bitch is planning to humiliate himself here.
Spain has not committed to Trump’s THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER demands to kick its defense spending up to five percent of its annual budget by 2035. And Pedro Sánchez is always mean to him, and he does it while looking handsome and in Castilian Spanish, so it’s a humiliation for Trump on all fronts and that’s why he’s mad.
Trump finished that clip above by whining that Spain also mistreats Mark Rutte, Trump’s special boy who always stays in character pretending he respects Trump, and Trump buys it, because Trump is stupid and easily flattered.
Here is how Spain has responded:
In response to Trump’s comments, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s office said that Spain “maintains an excellent social, cultural, and economic relationship with the US, and we have no intention of seeing that change.”
The spokesperson said the Spanish government regarded such statements “as a matter of routine.”
The spokesperson referenced the U.S.’ trade surplus with Spain, and the fact that the European Union handles trade for the bloc’s 27 member countries.
How do you say “Yeah we hear that old bitch running his mouth” in Spanish? (Something like Sí, oímos a ese viejo cabrón parloteando sin parar, maybe.)
So anyway, that’s been what the beginning of the NATO summit has looked like. And Rutte had such high hopes for there being a united NATO front against Vladimir Putin! Too bad the ass he’s got his tongue up is that of a stupid orange Hitler wannabe who thinks he’s impressive because he (allegedly) passes dementia tests.
If you have not read that incredible Wall Street Journal article from this weekend about all the ways European leaders work together to make Trump their useful idiot, how they scheme to manage that dumbfuck, all as they strategize on how to get out of their now-abusive relationship with Trump’s America, now would be a good time.
American allies have begun pushing the gas pedal on an unprecedented experiment in de-Americanization. Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.
It begins with an account of the secret meeting European leaders had at the beginning of this year on exactly how to break up with America. It discusses how Meloni thought Trump could be reasoned with at that meeting, but now no longer does. It talks about how they literally all craft their text messages to make the illiterate idiot feel safe:
When texting Trump, Rutte would echo the president’s own syntax and hyperbole, keeping his messages congratulatory, with staccato sentences. He immersed himself in the role so thoroughly some heads of government who worked with him began describing him as an actor who never broke character.
Soon, European leaders were following his lead. Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters. Sometimes, the Norwegian leader preferred his Finnish counterpart to send a message. Nordic officials worried that the mere mention of Norway, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, could reopen a sore wound.
The American president, that’s who they are talking about.
How they talk to him about advocating for a ceasefire in Ukraine, when he starts taking Putin’s side? They use his words: “Stop the killing,” because those are the simple words Trump understands. “Trump lectured top EU official Ursula von der Leyen for advocating sanctions on Russia, so she started referring to economic pressure as tariffs.”
If you want the senile dumbass to do anything, call it a tariff! Wow.
And then there’s:
Weeks into Trump’s second term, Macron visited to discuss NATO and Ukraine. The two spent hours together, and the U.S. president seemed open to his ideas. They used a tablet to dial into a video call led by Justin Trudeau. But as the Canadian prime minister was talking, Trump, frustrated with a technical issue that prevented him from chiming in, lobbed the device over the Resolute Desk and onto the floor, an official present said.
Like a toddler cat with dementia.
Does Trump bring foreign leaders into a room off the Oval Office full of MAGA hats and — no shit — Florsheim shoes, and tell them to pick whatever they’d like? He does. Apparently he thinks their wives (???) might like to relist the swag he gives them on Facebook Marketplace, or take it on Antiques Roadshow?
During their chat, Trump told [German Chancellor Friedrich] Merz he had something to show him, and walked the chancellor of Germany into a small study off the Oval Office. It was, Trump announced, “the Lewinsky room” and he had filled it with MAGA memorabilia, including red hats and boxes of Florsheim dress shoes. “Just grab whatever you want,” a congenial Trump told his German guests, adding that their wives could sell the swag for “thousands of dollars.”
“That’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard about Trump” has now happened more than once in this article.
If you want to see something really embarrassing, just watch the full presser with Rutte. You’ll be able to envision Trump throwing things off desks like a fucking baby quite easily.
There’s a second part of the report out now, on how Canadian PM Mark Carney has been at the forefront of the effort to get Europe thinking and acting as its own superpower in a world where it can’t rely on the USA, hammering to them the message that “the old America isn’t coming back.”
You’ll want to read that one while you, too, grapple with the world’s growing embrace of Carney’s thesis.
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When the f… will “Republicans” stand up to this sick, sorry excuse for a person/president & call him out for the crazy or erroneous things he does or says? As many people have previously stated, it’s not Trump, cuz we know he’s crazy, it’s the spineless “Republicans” to blame for allowing all of this mayhem to have happened.
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A huge amount of blame also goes to the 77,302,580 people who voted for Trump. Thanks to those people we are burdened with a horror clown from hell in the Oval Office.
What ifs: what if Hillary had won, what if Kamala had won over the oaf-in-chief. We would be better off by light years.
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Yes!
Remember that Trump believes and says that our elections are rigged.
I agree.
That explains why he won in 2024.
Comey gave him the 2016 election.
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In order for someone to humiliate themselves — to feel humiliated by something they said or did — that person must have some regard for other people. Trump has no regard for anyone but his fellow billionaires, just as the kings of old had no regard for mere peasants and only cared a bit for what dukes and other royals thought.
So, while We the Little People think Trump has humiliated himself, he doesn’t feel humiliated because what we think of him just doesn’t matter to him. Not at all.
“We will vote him out of power in the midterm elections.”
No, we won’t.
There won’t be any midterm elections.
On July 26, 2024, Trump told the crowd of Christian nationalists at the Turning Point “Believers’ Summit” in West Palm Beach, Florida, that they “won’t have to vote anymore” if he were elected President again. He said he would “fix things so good” that voting in America would end.
Trump indeed does have powers to do that within his PEAD powers.
So, this IS going to happen. Nothing can stop it. NOTHING — because Trump DOES INDEED have secret powers that virtually no one has ever seen or heard of: PEAD Power.
Back on July 13, 2019, Donald Trump told reporters that HE HAS POWERS “THAT NOBODY EVER MENTIONS” and that “NOBODY HAS EVEN SEEN BEFORE.”
Reporters shrugged off the comments as just Trump exaggeration — but it wasn’t an exaggeration. TRUMP’S CLAIM WAS AND IS FACT.
Only if you know about PEAD, are you even aware that Trump — like all Presidents before him ever since the Cold War era — have powers that neither Congress nor the Supreme Court know about.
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1952 at the height of The Cold War: At that time when it seemed that Russian nuclear missiles would rain down on America at any moment, Congress decided that our nation needed a dictatorial leader to keep things together after an attack…so Congress created the “Presidential Emergency Action Documents” (PEAD).
Here’s how the Brennan Center for Justice describes them: “Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) are executive orders that are prepared in anticipation of a range of emergency scenarios, so that they are ready to sign and PUT INTO EFFECT THE MOMENT ONE OF THE SCENARIOS COMES TO PASS, and they give ‘extraordinary presidential authority in response to extraordinary situations.’
“PEADs are classified “secret,” and NO PEAD HAS EVER BEEN DECLASSIFIED OR LEAKED. THERE IS NO DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT FOR PEADs, AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE DOCUMENTS HAVE EVER BEEN SHARED WITH RELEVANT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.”
So, NO ONE BUT TRUMP knows what the PEAD documents contain and what powers they give Trump in a time of an “emergency” that Trump can easily cook up. Indications are that PEAD documents give Trump the power to:
Detain people whom Trump declares are “dangerous persons” or “alien enemies”. That could be anybody…even you. No evidence, no trial…just Trump’s say so.
Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus and detain people without any court hearing. Once the jail door clangs shut behind you, you’ve been “disappeared”.
Declare Martial Law, suspend all civil laws, and put cities or states or the entire nation under armed military control. Trump makes the laws and his army carries them out at gunpoint.
Issue a nationwide “General Warrant” to search private homes and to seize private property.
Establish “Military Areas” under military-only control. Entire Blue states and Blue cities could become military concentration camps.
Establish government control over all forms of communication, including, but not limited to, radio, television, Internet, movies, newspapers, magazines, telephones, and texting.
Trump’s January 6 insurrection WAS ONLY A WARM-UP for what’s coming just after the 2026 mid-term elections if Democrats win even a single House. Here’s the most likely scenario of how it will play out:
FIRST — After the election results are reported showing the Democrats have won even one House, Trump will do exactly what he did on January 6, 2020 — he will declare that the results are invalid because of massive voting fraud, and he will order the Republican Congress not to validate the election results. No Democrats who won seats in Congress will be seated.
SECOND — Furious that their winning candidates are refused seats in Congress, hundreds of thousands of voters in Blue cities and states will take to the streets in massive demonstrations. Trump will have seeded the crowds with his agents who will incite and even commit acts of destruction and violence.
THIRD — Using the secret PEAD powers given to him, Trump will declare the demonstrations are a “national emergency” and will impose Martial Law using armed military forces with orders to shoot to kill. Remember when protesters gathered at his staged Bible-thumping event, Trump asked the Army to shoot the anti-Trump protesters “in the legs”? — It won’t be in the legs this time.
TRUMP WILL BE IN SOLE CONTROL. If King Trump allows Congress to continue to exist after he takes over dictatorial rule, Congress will be only a rubber stamp for what he wants. Trump can just view Congress as unnecessary and dissolve it. The U.S. Supreme Court will also be irrelevant and perhaps told to go home.
TRUMP HAS ALREADY DECLARED THAT THERE’S NO NEED FOR ANY MORE ELECTIONS…EVER —
A few minutes ago you probably had never heard of PEAD.
A few months from now you will wish you had never heard of PEAD. You will wish there never was any such thing as PEAD.
But there is.
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Scary!
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Not just scary—Prophetic. I agree with every part of that scenario. So the big question is–what will we true Americans do–before the election, but more importantly, after all of this scenario plays out? We would need to get millions out in the streets to protest/revolt. It’s hard to believe that masses of military members will round up & arrest, or even shoot their fellow citizens. I would hold out some hope that a cabal of generals & Congresspeople would stage a coup & arrest Trump, Miller, Hegseth, Patel, et. al. At that point, ignore the Constitution & do what is necessary to save the republic. Then we can recalibrate & somehow find some real patriotic leaders & return to pre-Trump days. Buckle up, cuz it’s going to be a very rocky Summer & Fall.
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