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Michael J McGee's avatar

"Foreign leaders 'freak out' when they see the Oval Office...."

I'm sure they do. And privately they think "what the fuck?"

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Arthur Venis's avatar

My assessment is that most foreign leaders think Trump is right out of his mind, with everything. I can imagine how hard it must be to have a conversation with a narcissist of this level.

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Tired Nana's avatar

My assessment is that they think Americans are also out of their minds to re-elect this monster. They've watched the dystopian horror unleashed by Trump since his inauguration, as he destroys America's government and institutions in full view of the American people, all while he enriches himself. Why would anyone ever trust us again?

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Arthur Venis's avatar

I truly think they understand how the rethoric works, and hey, EU leaders can do this too. But, I don’t think we would ever see a buffoon like Trump in the EU again. There’s a history of mad men in Europe. But we have to be vigilant too, as it mat change. In parts of the EU it happens, Hungary, Slovakia, and outside, but still NATO, Turkey.

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Jean Moreau's avatar

Pass it on: “All that glisters is not gold!” It’s done with a product that can be purchased at Home Depot.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Exactly, because the majority of Americans think the same thing. WTF

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Jan Duello's avatar

That was my exact thought when I read that sentence!!!

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Larry's avatar

Why do the foreigners keep meeting with the pervert?

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Marie Antoinette and her brioche seem so subtle, compared with Trump’s spray-on gold Rust-Oleum.

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Jean Moreau's avatar

Exactly!

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Martha Kenne's avatar

🤣

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

While refurbishing Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s decorators used so much gold leaf that Florida sources were exhausted. Trump boasts about his “24-karat gold” White House doodads, but they’re spray-painted gold with Rust-Oleum.

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Larry's avatar

Bingo! And we all know what happened to Marie. That is why the billionaires are all building bunkers around the world.

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Cynthia Stetson McGeoch's avatar

What a great waste of taxpayer dollars while others are homeless, starving and have medical debt. Plus, the King is going to reduce benefits that the poor, sick and elderly need to survive.

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Mary Jane Petersen's avatar

Exactly. His whole administration, although saying they are rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, has been hypocritically the most wasteful, fraudulent administration in recent history. I cite the gold in the office, the sending of unnecessary troops into our cities, the huge cost of deporting people who are contributing to our economy, and now our “secretary of war” calling all commanding officers to come home.

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Deedie Beidler's avatar

And his ‘cheating at golf’ trips…

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FRAN GREENER's avatar

How do we get him out of office? How much more damage does he have to do in order to have him and his scurrilous asskissers kicked to the curb? How? When? Why Not?

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley's avatar

He won't be removed from office., so stop thinking like that. The only system for removal is impeachment, and it takes 67 votes in the Senate to convict and remove. That will never happen. There is no mechanism for removal in our system beyond impeachment. Instead, he needs to lose power by Democrats winning elections. Trump's power comes from the Republican majority refusing to treat the Legislative Branch like a coequal branch of government. If we return the legislative branch to its coequal status, Trump will lose most of his power.--Jason

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Twyla 🇨🇦's avatar

Since he cheated to win the election, maybe American people need to be a bit less gullible.

Is it so much easier to believe that the MAGA minority is all powerful rather than the lifelong grifter cheated to become president?

The Election Truth Alliance has shown that your raw votes were manipulated. They aren’t getting nearly enough support from the Americans who are now being impacted by this horrible conman.

Further, Greg Pallast demonstrated how people were fraudulently removed from the voter rolls and had their registration rejected.

You know people who voted by mail only to have their ballots vanish into thin air. It happened to a lot of people.

Wake the hell up America!!

Your democratic allies are sounding the alarm 🚨

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Tired Nana's avatar

Even assuming that the election happens, without interference, giving Democrats a majority, what is to stop Trump from just doing whatever he wants anyway? He has already proven that there are no guardrails, institutional norms, or Constitutional limits, and that the separation of powers only exists on paper. The American experiment is irrevocably broken...it would be like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. This is fascism, American-style, but still fascism. Our hubris and pride in American democracy keep us from admitting it.

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FRAN GREENER's avatar

Considering that this miserable decrepit human being does not pay attention to any of the rules, Why is it that we have to follow them?

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Deedie Beidler's avatar

🙏🏻

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Denise Faith's avatar

30.06

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FRAN GREENER's avatar

Then we will be just like him and his band of pedophiles and pedophile wannabees.

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Larry's avatar

GET READY FOR THE MASSIVE PROTESTS OCTOBER 18, 2025 NOW AND SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

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Carin Froehlich's avatar

My husband and I volunteer at local Pennsylvania food bank privately ran with help from our township. We have been doing this since we retired eight years ago. I can testify that I have never seen such chaos we have a year waiting list. I started to take products from food bank and make cooked meals like spaghetti I have a waiting line that goes around the corner I served 75 people last Tuesday. I live in an area that heavy MAGA they still believe that it’s BIDENS FAULT OR PELOSI FAULT that they are in desperate need. Two weeks ago I started asking who they felt was the problem with food cost. Over 90% still blame the Democrats. Im braking my back to feed them I went to our township supervisor of course who is 100% MAGA and gave two week notice. They had a melt down oh well what would you do?

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Jean Moreau's avatar

Thank you for your good work! I wonder if you might speak the truth to these people.

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Carin Froehlich's avatar

God only knows how hard I try. I speak softly and I get rage back with four letter words. The ones with the flags tied to their trucks and cars are the worst they treat the American Flag like a Halloween decoration they have broken every rule that has been with our flag since Betsy Ross yet they are the real American hero’s they are the real Christians when in reality they are not even close they are closer to being traitors I was born a Quaker in 1955 they have raided our friends meetings with their white Jesus in all my years the Quakers never turn anyone away until now we don’t believe in killing we do believe in Robin Hood for humanity because the real way to stop them is to take their money that they worship

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Bless you, Carin. Stay safe.

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Jill 🌞's avatar

You are amazingly kind- not to mention strong, considering where you live. Thank you. They are brainwashed. You are clear and understand truth.

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Larry's avatar

You can't save magas, so save yourself.

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🌈 Lance Trottier 🌈's avatar

trump just plain, straight up sucks.

The fools that elected him do, too.

Much of the problem, sadly, is WILLFUL IGNORANCE.

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Linda Rogoff's avatar

Unconscionable like everything he’s done and will do. He’s a bully and an out of control narcissist

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Adrienne Raymond's avatar

It is disgusting. Trump is disgusting and the people in his administration should be horribly ashamed to treat their fellow citizens this way.

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Tina Gavin's avatar

I agree 1000%. Most people I know or just chat with while out and about agree. Something is very rotten and not in Denmark- it’s right here under our noses.

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Leah Baum's avatar

The problem is they have no shame.

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Desiree Carter's avatar

Repeating the same old tired accusatory comment, “Well, they voted for Trump. What they get is on them”, is verbiage we adhere to. But it rings with a deep, deep degree of truth of what “they”, MAGA and MAGA-like Americans, have done.

How, I ask very pointedly, can anyone including those I love in my own extended family, be surprised and disappointed and appalled at what he is doing to them and their children and grandchildren asking for more food at their table or more money in their pocket? How can you not reflect on the history you’ve seen with your own eyes? The words you’ve heard with your own ears.

Prior to his first term he actually, out loud and on television, bragged about not losing votes if he walked down Fifth Avenue in NYC and pulled out a gun and shot someone. He stood before the world and made an animated, exaggerated joke about people with disabilities. He called our veterans “losers” and said he didn’t like losers. He said worse about John McCain, a national Vietnam war hero and POW who endured years of abuse and pain from the enemy, and who was a Republican who didn’t put up with him. He is a five time draft dodger who used a bone spur excuse to get out of serving in the US military. He had the brazen audacity to place a wreath at the tomb of The Unknown Soldier after making fun of the very people who make it allowable for him, and you, to have the freedom to speak your truth in a free America. He calls anyone and everyone a schoolyard name when he doesn’t like what they say or do. He insists on loyalty when he doesn’t earn one second of it. He lies about his lies. He’s a known 34 count felon who was judged and found guilty by a jury of his peers-some who may have voted for him. He’s horrible to women and brags about his “needs” he claims to have with them and his manhood. The Oval Office in YOUR White House has become laden with 24 Karat gold he brags about, not just on an ordinary day, but on a day many people across our country have been gunned down and killed with gun laws he refuses to acknowledge. On a day you, as parents, can’t fill your child’s stomach with the food they desperately need to grow into healthy adults. And I can go on and on, but…

So, tell me MAGA and MAGA-like folks, how can you ladies and gentlemen NOT blame yourselves for the situation in your homes today? Forget that we’re incensed at your ignorance and blind fealty for a man who has given you a reason not to believe anything he says. What we say, you don’t hear and you justify that same fealty, and we know you justify it.

Bluntly put, how is anyone supposed to feel badly for you? And personally, I’m sorry, but not for you, I’m sorry for your kids. They didn’t have a say in bringing this on themselves, but you did. You love your children but because you cannot think beyond the hate of a Democrat, in office or not, you have taken the food out of the mouths of those same children who need it, and you know they need it.

How will you explain your decisions to them?

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Larry's avatar

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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Fekeetsa ANTIFA's avatar

What i also find especially despicable is the waiting room directly off the Oval OFFICE. It is now full of merchandise. It was a lovely room, filled with a history, difficult to describe. And few of the people, In the People's House ever get to visit. Now a $ store. Except insert at least thousands, if not millions. And you receive a red hat for paying his extortion fees. Ugh

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Desiree Carter's avatar

Crimony, he’s not just a money monger, he’s a money monger with a desperate need to ‘show off’ to the world and all the other money mongers who run in his broken circle 🐷🤮

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Penny Eischen's avatar

Gaudy!

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Penny Holliday's avatar

Trump bragging about all the gold in the oval office is disgusting when people are going hungry! Marie Antoinette at least wanted to let them eat cake. Trump doesn't even think of people who are poor or hungry because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has NEVER known even one day of hunger or need!

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

My hope is that we can sell all this gold as a down payment on repairing the damage Trump has done to this country. In the meantime, those of us who are financially able need to support these food programs that Trump has decimated.

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Denise Faith's avatar

wait until the bill comes for the ball room. MAGA wanted this

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Juliet Rigtrup's avatar

Paint. It’s all paint.

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Michael J McGee's avatar

I've read that in several sites.

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Tina Gavin's avatar

It’s so gross and ugly- oh - just like Trump

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Juliet Rigtrup's avatar

That’s like FIFA gifting the real World Cup Trophy to Trump.

If that were true, FIFA would be in deep shit so I don’t believe it.

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laura oshea's avatar

I knew this would happen and I am so sad and completely distressed about it.

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Old Gnome's avatar

I think it's time to remove the Republican president and his followers who are causing this.

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J.J. Loughran's avatar

We are here because 90 million saw no reason to vote. We need to give up trying to convert

MAGA / We need to convince the less than interested that they need to vote.

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Larry's avatar

Social and corporate media told them their votes would not matter; false equivalence. It is the same similar con of Jill Stein in 2016 and Ralph Nader in 2000.

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Old Gnome's avatar

I agree with that. I would like to know how. I have a lot physical issues and old.

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Jean Moreau's avatar

YES!! People need to VOTE in the current elections and in the midterms. To paraphrase Obama: Don’t bellyache! VOTE!!

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