Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

But on social media and in promotional videos — many featuring faked celebrity endorsements — the sellers have tapped an audience that believes Trump’s ouster was part of a great conspiracy and that by investing in the Trump Rebate Banking System, or TRB for short, Trump will reward their loyalty by making them rich.

Is there a name for when your manufactured alternate reality collides with actual reality?

hilariousness

at the grocery store yesterday there was a copy of the National Enquirer that had "SEX CREEP TRUMP" in big block letters so I guess they've turned on him too

That’s an endorsement

BRB starting a "have you been scammed by a Trump scammer, give me some money and I'll get your money back for you, by the way I am JFK" scam

"Send us $5000 and we will make sure Donald Trump is included in the updated version of 'We Didn't Start the Fire.'"

when jfk jr is revealed as the executioner of the traitor(s) ___ ___ at guantánamo bay, all holders of trump bucks will be made whole

on one hand, I have a family member who used to volunteer in my state's consumer protection bureau and have sympathy for credulous people who get scammed by fly-by-night operators

on the other hand, the Trump faithful have enjoyed being marks for so many years now it's hard to be surprised when they're enthusiastic about promises that have a zero percent chance of panning out. magic beans!

Dud

very dud

Some people say, Dud.

This is a big stephen miller thing... seems like you'd need to, IDK, maybe pass a constitutional amendment or something, a tall order for his first day back at work

Trump pledges to end birthright citizenship on first day in office

can't stop won't stop

Trump trashes Kayleigh McEnany. pic.twitter.com/aylP807XKF

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 31, 2023

On the birthright citizenship, there's a whole "originalist" argument that the 14th amendment was never meant to apply to the children of undocumented immigrants. It's a contentious theory to put it mildly, but fuck knows how all those Federalist Society creeps would rule on it. I assume the goal of an order like that would be to get it in front of SCOTUS and see how far they're willing to go.

That the citizenship argument advanced during the most conservative Supreme Court of all time tells you something about this bunch of psychos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark

"Milktoast" LOL.

The one thing you can count on when you board the Trump Train is, eventually you will be thrown off.

"We will also make sure that we get a reckoning with respect to the policies that the federal government enacted vis-a-vis COVID-19."

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 31, 2023

Desantis really did go to Harvard, huh?

Of course -- he used "with respect to" and "vis-a-vis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Shitter's full https://t.co/dfxIK8sOe1

— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) May 31, 2023

This is just a real nice surprise, a real nice surprise

picture unrelated

At the very least, he's not paying for a blue checkmark

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/trump-tape-classified-document-iran-milley/index.html

New: Trump acknowledged he retained a classified Pentagon document in an audio tape obtained by Special Counsel Jack Smith — confirming CNN. Our sources indicate this doc was classified at the SECRET level, the kind of doc DOJ would be inclined to charge.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) May 31, 2023

The classification of this document is important — if it was too important to acknowledge and release publicly, DOJ might not be able to use it at trial.

As @secretsandlaws discusses often, NatSec prosecutors look for documents that are classified but not *too* important. https://t.co/NQZccUfKpE

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 31, 2023

In other words, he's right on track to be charged in ... 2027 or something.

Seems like the legal woes are really closing in on him pt.94, meanwhile he's about to run for President again

they finally got him

Increasingly isolated

They also had him on tape with a foreign president threatening to withhold aid unless he interfered in the US election. Still remained president after that one, lmao

This is the most maddening part of the durham report. Like—ok, it seems he didn’t solicit election interference from russia, which is what mueller concluded anyway. (If that investigation was a set up it didn’t work very well). But he still did solicit help from ukraine, using taxpayer money as leverage. It’s like the false accusation gave him the idea to do it for real.

Yeah, but he was, like, totally impeached for that.

I know but like

totally impeached

Relax folks, he’s gonna pull something in the third year in his second term, most likely involving bribing state officials to ratify the proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits, that he is like going to totally get actually punished for.

More like during his third term.

Meantime in the snakepit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/trump-lawyers-resign-criminal-investigation

"some of the lawyers started to believe the biggest impediment to defending Trump might just be the distrust and interpersonal conflict Trump."

Fixed

hahaha covering their fair & balanced ass

Notably, Thursday night’s town hall with Trump in the Des Moines suburb of Clive will be pre-taped, giving Fox News the option of editing out egregious lies about the 2020 election in general or Dominion and Smartmatic in particular before its broadcast at 9pm.

Once they edit out all the insane bullshit, it'll be 10 minutes of actual Trump Q&A, and 45 minutes of Hannity and whoever else is still on board that sinking ship talking about what a genius he is.

really starting to wish the republicans had followed suit and decided to change the order of states in their primary

heh

The word/byline ratio on this story is 34/6. https://t.co/sRrygfQLuO

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) June 6, 2023

34:1, technically, but hey, don't let that get in the way of a funny tweet

Mar-a-Lago ketchup reserves are about to go through some things pic.twitter.com/IhaUPKtKQ2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2023

Congrats to Truth Social for getting this scoop

I saw someone post an even more aggrieved than usual rant of his right after his team was done meeting with the DOJ, and that was seen by some as confirmation that they came back and told him, "Sorry, dude, you're getting indicted. Again."

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BREAKING per @AndrewFeinberg :

MARK MEADOWS has agreed to plead guilty to several lesser federal crimes in exchange for his testimony under a limited grant of immunity. It is believed Trump will be indicted as soon as tomorrow on obstruction & Espionage Act charges.

— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) June 7, 2023

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

didn't you do the exact same thing with the last indictment?

Holy fuck.

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

is there really any doubt this will happen soon very soon? obv most are skeptical of what becomes of it all but come on

The idea of Meadows pleading to lesser crimes and flipping is pretty astonishing. Of course, his lawyer says it's complete bullshit.

note from a british person: if the independent is reporting it as an exclusive, it's probably not true.

Yeah I'm treating everything as rumor mill stuff unless/until it actually happens.