Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Dud

Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort has closed its dining room and suspended beach club services to guests due to a Covid-19 outbreak among "some" staff, according to an email sent to members Friday afternoon and shared with CNN.

The email says the closure is out of "an abundance of caution."

Banquet and event services remain open, the email says, adding: "We have already undertaken all appropriate response measures in accordance with CDC guidance, including activating a thorough sanitization and cleaning of any affected areas and all club facilities, and we will continue our heightened environmental cleaning regimen."

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/media/donald-trump-social-media-network/index.html

"Completely redefine the game"--in a downward direction, I assume, if that's even possible.

Today in Things That Will Never Happen...frankly, I'm surprised he didn't say it would be coming "in about two weeks".

lol

Facst? Nzi Prty?

call me naive, but i think it's going to happen. it may suck and immediately fall apart, or it may actually attract a bunch of people. it makes too much sense for it not happen, especially given that everyone involved is either desperate for money or desperate to throw money at things.

the more interesting thing, i think, will be what they'll do when all fascists and militia groups establish their presence (on day 1, i'd guess). i would assume that any trump social network will do zero "moderation". so what does that mean when he's hosting stormfront?

Same--with all that money out there just waiting to be milked, I'd be surprised if they didn't at least get it off the ground. I'm interested in how much attention is paid to it by CNN and such. If there's little or none, I expect Trump would quickly lose interest.

StrmFrnt?

this will collapse if the apple app store doesn't host it. this means it will have to commit to certain moderation standards, which means that trump would not be able to speak freely on the app the way he once did on twitter.

Patriots use Goya phones

Ban the apple ecosystem!

If it's anything at all, it'll be a knockoff Gab with Trump's name stamped on it (big shiny gold logo) and one of the least attractive user bases in media. Smaller, too, because every time a high-profile account migrates from one platform to another they lose a sizable percentage of followers just due to attrition. I guarantee Trump has no idea how much of a money sink social media networks are in general (Twitter wasn't profitable until 2019, and both revenues and profits have declined since) and will lose interest incredibly rapidly if any of his own money is at risk.

i would guess he's less in it for the money and more for having a platform where people pay attention to him and he can guarantee that any critical voice will be outnumbered

if i die in the next few months, it is likely because i got mad at the world and decided to go on to trumpballs.com to troll the ted cruz posts

what the hell even is this?

This is a real statement released tonight by former President Trump in its entirety pic.twitter.com/gB61je1mg9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 27, 2021

when he's right, he's right

Uh, there is, in fact, a Durham Report:

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

Maybe we should ask the guy who appointed Durham. Or the guy who appointed that guy. Oh... right.

It's not the flex you think it is when you ask about the reality and/or existence of one of your former employees. Just sayin.

"Was I a complete imbecile, completely unsuited to my job? Why yes, I was! Someone should do something about that!"

The big guy wandered into a wedding reception and toasted the happy couple:

“Y’know, I just got, I turned off the news, I get all these flash reports, and they’re telling me about the border, they’re telling me about China, they’re telling me about Iran—how’re we doing with Iran, howdya like that? Boy, they were ready to make a deal, they woulda done anything, they woulda done anything, and this guy goes and drops the sanctions and then he says, ‘We’d love to negotiate now,’ ‘We’re not dealing with the United States at all,’ oh, well, they don’t want to deal with us. And China, the same thing, they never treated us that way, right? You saw what happened a few days ago, was terrible, and uh, the border is not good, the border is the worst anybody’s ever seen it, and what you see now, multiply it times 10, Jim — he’s the only one I know who would handle the border tougher than me. We have to, and the tough is... in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks, and these things are showing thousands and thousands of people coming up from South America and it’s gonna be, it’s just uh, look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint, and it’s gonna destroy the country, and frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts. Our school systems, our hospital systems, everything. So it’s a rough thing, and I just say, ‘Do you miss me yet?’ We did get 75 million votes, nobody’s ever gotten that. They said, ‘Get 66 million votes, sir, and the election’s over.’ We got 75 million and they said... but you know, you saw what happened, 10:30 in the evening, all of a sudden I said, ‘That’s a strange thing, why are they closing up certain places, right?’ Now, a lot of things happening right now, I just wanted to say, it’s an honor to be here, it’s an honor to have you at Mar-a-Lago, you are a great and beautiful couple.”

Nailed it.

imagine not being able to quickly skim through that speech. i guess when you attend a wedding at mar-a-lago, you know what the possibilities are

We have to, and the tough is... in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks

if you have your wedding at maralago you fucking deserve this imo

oh definitely

this is no slight against DSA, but it's like getting married at DSA Headquarters in Marxville, New Marxston

home to some of the greatest comrades i have come across

“Y’know, I just got, I turned off the news, I get all these flash reports, and they’re telling me about the border, they’re telling me about China, they’re telling me about Iran—how’re we doing with Iran, howdya like that? Boy, they were ready to make a deal, they woulda done anything, they woulda done anything, and this guy goes and drops the sanctions and then he says, ‘We’d love to negotiate now,’ ‘We’re not dealing with the United States at all,’ oh, well, they don’t want to deal with us. And China, the same thing, they never treated us that way, right? You saw what happened a few days ago, was terrible, and uh, the border is not good, the border is the worst anybody’s ever seen it, and what you see now, multiply it times 10, Jim — he’s the only one I know who would handle the border tougher than me. We have to, and the tough is... in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks, and these things are showing thousands and thousands of people coming up from South America and it’s gonna be, it’s just uh, look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint, and it’s gonna destroy the country, and frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts. Our school systems, our hospital systems, everything. So it’s a rough thing, and I just say, ‘Do you miss me yet?’ We did get 75 million votes, nobody’s ever gotten that. They said, ‘Get 66 million votes, sir, and the election’s over.’ We got 75 million and they said... but you know, you saw what happened, 10:30 in the evening, all of a sudden I said, ‘That’s a strange thing, why are they closing up certain places, right?’ Now, a lot of things happening right now, I just wanted to say, it’s an honor to be here, it’s an honor to have you at Mar-a-Lago, you are a great and beautiful couple.”

Like a ZX81 that got connected to the internet and it fried its every circuit

His latest press release explains how he saved all our lives by ignoring both Fauci and Birx, and you can tell they were both wrong because Fauci didn't trust Birx and requested not to be part of press conferences with her. Also he is bad at throwing a baseball. Time has now proved Trump's COVID response was the correct one.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/media/donald-trump-website-launch/index.html

My site, which I've had for 20+ years, is on Tripod--wish this had been there, or even better, Angelfire.

Is this the “social media platform” they said he was going to reveal??? Hahahaha

no

No. Before the next one redefines social media, this one's going to redefine homepages.

Nice touch by CNN: "The website, 45office.com, comes after Trump's ban from social media sites in the aftermath of the January Capitol insurrection."

"Trump's ban from social media sites" gets a link, and "aftermath of the January Capitol insurrection" gets a link, but "45office.com" doesn't.

if it weren't for the aftershocks from his bullshit that we'll be experiencing for years to come, I'm kinda already at the point where the last four years feel like a weird fever dream rather than something that could ever possibly have actually happened.

yea I saw the wedding toast and my brain had trouble reconciling the fact that that clearly brain damaged man was just President of the United States

that clearly brain damaged man was just President of the United States

and he consistently enjoyed job approval ratings in the near vicinity of 40%

and 74 million people voted for his re-election despite the fact that he demonstrably fucked up every single aspect of his job and failed to deliver on a single campaign promise other than "I will pay less taxes"

the last four years feel like a weird fever dream rather than something that could ever possibly have actually happened

I've experienced this feeling many times the past few weeks when I see some stray item about Trump.

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President Joe Biden will not call for a wealth tax to help pay for his multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better initiative, according to multiple people familiar with the White House’s thinking. In doing so, he will sidestep a proposal that progressive Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), say would raise trillions of dollars in revenue and narrow income inequality.

according to multiple people familiar with the White House's thinking, who are very eager to have their version of the "White House's thinking" aired in the press, for reasons that shall not be examined very closely because journalists do not bite the hands that feed them

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"45office.com" is unbelievably funny.

it does sound like he's selling printer paper and staples

Is he going to build his own Oval Office replica?

"45office.com" is unbelievably funny.

Agreed. Guy has spent his entire life building up the "Trump" brand, and this is what he picks for his blog's domain?

Gonna assume that squatters already bought up all the domains he would've preferred. And god bless every one of them.