All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by pErvinalia » Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:27 am

Not the best name, IMO. Monarchs these days are pretty much toothless. Trump has plenty of bite.
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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by JimC » Sun Oct 19, 2025 3:01 am

No dictators would be more to the point...
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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by Svartalf » Sun Oct 19, 2025 3:43 am

JimC wrote:
Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:02 pm
I'm not sure I subscribe to the "Trump is on his last legs" narrative...
well, he's been o his last legs since his first administration, and he's still going on like the Energizer rabbit... the only thing that can stop him is nature stopping him as it does the too old, or his friend vladimir slipping novychok in his drink...
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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by macdoc » Sun Oct 19, 2025 4:10 am

I think No Kings is perfect as it reflects back on American foundations...before the constitution was written the the colonists threw the bastards back to their pip squeak island.
It's a terrific origin story and truly a near thing to succeed.
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Post by macdoc » Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:23 am

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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by Tero » Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:02 pm

"But tough questions for Trump are now few and fewer, even as he spends more and more time in front of the cameras in what has become America’s first live-streamed Presidency. Consider what happened on Tuesday, when a reporter from ABC News tried to ask Trump a question. Before the journalist could get her query out, the President cut her off. “You’re ABC fake news,” he said. “I don’t want.” He did not bother to disguise the reason, either: simple retaliation. “I don’t take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the Vice-President of the United States,” he said, referring to a contentious interview last Sunday between ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Vice-President J. D. Vance.

"Instead, Trump called on Brian Glenn, the chief White House correspondent of an all-Trump, all-the-time news outlet called Real America’s Voice."

"I can think of no more perfect encapsulation of why the Trump Administration has done what it has to eviscerate the century-old tradition of independent reporting from the White House. In his second term, it was no longer enough to call the real news fake; now it’s the fake news that gets to displace actual journalists in order to playact the real thing. And when Trump wants validation, whether for his false claims of election fraud or some other lie, he can now claim “the media” gave it to him. How long can it be until there are only Brian Glenns in that room?"

"But the reason to pay attention to what’s happening with the coverage of the Presidency is that Trump cares about it perhaps more than anything else. There has never been a more media-obsessed President, nor one for whom the regard of others, even if it is suck-uppery in the crudest form, matters so much. He is known to spend hours a day consuming cable-news reports about himself. There is no detail of his public portrayal that does not concern him. In a lengthy social-media post this week, he berated Time for a cover about his Middle East diplomacy which was so complimentary it was headlined “His Triumph.” Trump’s beef was with the accompanying photo of himself, which he deemed “the Worst of All Time.” The point being: there is no pleasing a leader whose need for affirmation is so bottomless.

"The template for Trump’s second term so far has been to remake the White House as a place increasingly devoid of constraints or criticism. Gone are the first-term advisers such as John Kelly or Jim Mattis who saw themselves as checks on Trump’s tendency to go rogue. Only yes-men and flatterers need apply, and more and more they seem to be competing with one another to come up with the most over-the-top compliments possible for the boss. Last weekend, during a rally in Tel Aviv to celebrate the Trump-brokered deal to release the Israeli hostages, Trump’s Middle East negotiator, Steve Witkoff, proclaimed him “the greatest President in American history.” It doesn’t take much imagination to think what talk like that from his advisers does to a man with Trump’s ego. Those questions from reporters may soon be the last thing left tethering the President to at least some form of reality.

"This is why it’s not hard to anticipate where all this is going. Trump, it appears, is building a dream palace of endless puffery for himself, a gilded safe space where there will be no more tough questions, no more pesky reporters or impertinent demands for information that he does not want to give. And imagine how very powerful the President, who already believes the Constitution gives him the power “to do whatever I want,” will feel then. The Pentagon’s move to effectively ban journalism from its halls this week was not an outlier—it was a preview."
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Re: All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

Post by Tero » Sun Oct 19, 2025 4:20 pm

Not sure where is going with this. More drone attacks?
Trump, while at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, wrote on his Truth Social platform that Petro is “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields” across Colombia, which the Republican president initially misspelled as Columbia before deleting his post and replacing it the correct spelling of the country. “Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America,” Trump said.

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