Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

the awkward one ganged up on and beaten, brutalized, surrounded and pummeled by the hillbilly bullies. don't look! they might see you! it's not your problem! the requiem of an evolutionary primate branch, a world heating up!

Trump stops on his way out of court to touch Jeanine Pirro’s shoulder. It’s the happiest he’s seemed all morning.

one little light sexual harassment for the road

Today in "Maggie Haberman is a vapid idiot":

A curiosity that’s interesting to court-watchers in the room today: a very visible, dark spindle of hairspray running through Trump’s dyed blond hair, on the left side of his head over his ear.

boredom loves company

Visible, dark spindle of hairspray
Agenbite of inwit
Yes I will yes

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/20/08/rudy%20giuliani.jpg

Please tell me this is AI and not real.

Trump: Silence of the lamb! The late great Hannibal Lecter. It is a wonderful man. pic.twitter.com/edG9oCH933

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 11, 2024

I think someone pointed out a while ago that he thinks Anthony Hopkins endorsed him or something.

At a New Jersey rally, Donald Trump made repeated reference to “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” and confused Jimmy Carter with Jimmy Connors—forcing a difficult conversation about Biden’s age and mental acuity.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 12, 2024

Lolsob

Yeah Mads Mikkelson called him “a fresh wind” 8 years ago and still talks about being endorsed by Hannibal Lechter

Looool

I’m ceaselessly amazed that thousands of people voluntarily subject themselves to Trump’s meandering train of thought speeches. As long as he hits the proper punchlines I guess: his trials are bullshit and foreigners are terrible.

The Hannibal Lecter bit is a bigoted joke comparing immigrants to serial killers, he doesn't think Lecter was real or endorsing him.

Trump on Hannibal Lecter: You know why I like him? Because he said on television “I love Donald Trump” so I love him pic.twitter.com/1jYyXKFkjI

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 7, 2023

When I was growing up in the ‘70s/‘80s I recognized the fact that most Americans were either slightly conservative or slightly liberal, and a minority were fundamentalist Christians who were way out there in cuckooland. It’s only in the past ten years that I’ve realized that 50% of Americans are either completely insane or are severely cognitively impaired. It’s at least 50%, you can’t tell me it’s less, not any more.

I was at an art opening last night and there was a woman with a piece in the show telling people that General Patton was Trump's biological father. This was a fairly small town gallery, but a nice group of seemingly liberal art lovers, and it seemed completely wacky and out of place despite the countryside around the town being covered in Trump crap.

It was in Freeport, IL, by the way, site of one of the Lincoln/Douglas debates.

This is Johnny McEntee, senior advisor to Project 2025 & Trump’s Director of the Office of Personnel Management.

McEntee would be the most central person to implement Schedule F & hire Trump loyalists across all government agencies in a second term.

pic.twitter.com/ZbFFppwrZZ

— Ms. M🇺🇸 (@MsMalarkey24) May 12, 2024

I know some unhoused people who would love to beat the life out of that piece of shit

It’s at least 50%, you can’t tell me it’s less, not any more.

My grandfather, a sort of poor person's H.L. Mencken, used to say it was more like 90%.

Sturgeon's Law

man, cohen saying if trump owed someone money cohen would offer the person 20% of what trump owed and if they said no they didn't get anything! what a guy.

apparently he owed 50 different trump university vendors and they all took the 20% except for two of them. what happened to the two? they went away. classy.

Trump probably truly believes that stiffing people is smart business.

its just his whole "when you're a star they let you do it" ethos. you can do whatever you want. to anyone.

"THAT MAKES ME SMART"

j.d. vance behind trump in court today. looks like we have a winner. mamaw would be proud.

trump to j.d. : "take notes. you're gonna have to be dealing with a LOT of this shit for the next four years..."

Pence and Vance sort of rhyme, lend themselves to similar puns etc.

danger: stream of consciousness bullshit ahead—

to most entities the burden of litigation arbitration or negotiation is distracting, burdensome, and/or annoying enough to result in improved business models. trump by fame bluster and shamelessness, and the correct selection of markets and of trading victims, turned it into a variably successful series of grifts. he was bankrupt several times. eventually he moved mainly into selling his name. and then to politics, which has the lowest possible level of guaranty of performance. there’s still RE, but i sorta expect its legacy/vestigial? dunno, i could be wrong there. have assumed a while that without political trump, both the trademark trump and the RE trump collapse.

anyway politics has a lotta visibility but you can lie nearly without limit. it’s been a steady descent of standards for him, and a continual increase in public exposure and really, also an increase in the stakes for everyone.

he has mastered the double down, so we get to either: the system effectively collapses, or he is imprisoned (or eliminated).

lol that’s my narrative what is yours etc

you read that new yorker article and you really do end up blaming that t.v. producer. trump was on the outs. he had no money. nobody wanted his fucking steaks. and that guy threw him a lifeline. all of a sudden he was hugely famous in a way he hadn't been with his books and new york/casino fame. he was famous famous. sucks so bad. just a simple twist of fate.

I don't see how Vance helps Trump as his VP at all. The only worse Veep pick would be Laura Loomer.

that dude has 0 cred but yo i’ve said THAT shit before

he only cares about loyalty. he wants someone to go do his bidding. if vance convinces him he's that guy then he's in.

Vance did win a senate seat in Ohio, so he could conceivably help to solidify those 17 electoral college votes for Trump. Vance may be transparently awful in our eyes, but to anyone capable of voting for Trump, he's entirely acceptable. Appealing, even.

Ohio isn’t really a swing state these days

i'm sure the proud boy types would love him.

lool, one of the Trump defence team posits: is it possible that some of these (no doubt absolutely hundreds and hundreds of) calls (between Trump/Cohen) were pocket dials?

xpost they probably think he's a fed

Butt Dials lead to Butt Deals

Yeah Ohio is a lost cause Vance brings nothing to the table except his nauseating insincerity.

that's all trump brings to the table too! they'd be a match made in heaven. like a mini-trump.

yeah, but Vance was an "intellectual" who dumbed himself down to win a Senate seat. Trumpers will probably always be suspicious of him.

maybe if he shoots a dog

He will tell you about his uncle who shot a dog while high on Oxycontin because he was forgotten by Washington elites

trumpers will love vance if trump tells them to love him.

hopefully some pictures will surface of him volunteering in San Francisco, the most shameful thing one can do

During his first year, his professor Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, persuaded him to write his memoir.

Why does Amy Chua turn up in every news story?

nobody really likes biden is the problem. there are people who REALLY like trump. there are no people who REALLY like biden.

I have no clue who will win, but elections aren't decided by rally sizes