[RD] Trump in Charge: The MAGA Presidency

Trump just delivered a word salad speech that would’ve got Biden impeached

In a few short remarks, the president revealed he has very little knowledge of the U.S. economy; is incapable of remembering where his own representatives or aides are and cannot stay awake during an early afternoon public appearance, Holly Baxter writes.

To start, the president claimed, without blinking, that he had already secured $16 trillion in investments into the U.S. economy. For reference, the entire GDP of the United States is under $30 trillion. Now, we all know that Donald is prone to exaggeration. We’ve all heard that his latest idea/bill/haircut is the greatest thing ever, and that some people are saying it’s the most incredible idea/bill/haircut the world has ever seen.

But this was clearly not delivered for melodramatic effect. This was the president of the United States claiming that he had single-handedly funded half of capitalism, in six months.

Moments later, Trump attempted to introduce Republican Rep. Dan Meuser.

“Where’s Dan?” he asked, scanning the crowd. Dave McCormick, seated beside him, had to quietly inform him that all the representatives had stayed in Washington.

“Oh, they’re in Washington working on our next bill? Good!” Trump replied. “Now I don’t have to mention their names, although they’re watching on television, I guarantee.”

He laughed nervously as he said it, in quite an uncharacteristic way, and then trailed off while muttering, again, that it was “good” that “they” are working on something in D.C. It was oddly difficult to watch.

The 79-year-old president then struggled to pronounce the name of one of his own White House aides, before saying, “They tell me you’re doing great.” And, as the spicy dressing on the word salad, he added a bizarre aside about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski being a great student (“It didn’t work out too well for him” in the end, however, according to Trump, a conclusion that clearly demands intellectual rigor beyond the everyday man or woman.)

If Biden had said any of this, Fox News would have launched a live countdown to impeachment. But it’s unlikely we’ll see these gaffes dominate the news cycle — even though President Donald J. Trump, supposedly the sparkiest 79-year-old who ever damn lived, began to visibly struggle to stay awake while seated behind the microphone.
 
so yea. firing epstein's prosecutor right now is really bad optics.

... i mean, it all is. let me rephrase.

maga is super angry over epstein right now. to them, this actually is a 'bad look'
 
Senethro said:
I kind of don't care because I think it'll only reveal criminality, not Conspiracy with a capital C. I don't like the energy from the MAGA zealots right now though.
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I'm sorry but I fail to understand your stance on this.
Are you against revealing the list of paedophile "clients" from Epstein’s list because some of the Maga crowd still cares about it?
 
If there is a list and anyone’s on it, the only notable figure to the public would I suspect be Sweaty von Windsor.

Samson said:
[from article] To start, the president claimed, without blinking, that he had already secured $16 trillion in investments into the U.S. economy. For reference, the entire GDP of the United States is under $30 trillion
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“For reference” doesn’t put anything into context. Let’s assume momentarily the $16 trillion is counting other activities down the line from the real ($16t-y) investment, packaged into a big number to make it sound impressive. Now over how many years is it? If it’s 10 or 20 years, why tell us one year’s worth of GDP?

And if these are investments, why mention GDP at all? Investments depreciate, but they don’t evaporate at the start of a new fiscal year.
 
amadeus said:
If there is a list and anyone’s on it, the only notable figure to the public would I suspect be Sweaty von Windsor.


“For reference” doesn’t put anything into context. Let’s assume momentarily the $16 trillion is counting other activities down the line from the real ($16t-y) investment, packaged into a big number to make it sound impressive. Now over how many years is it? If it’s 10 or 20 years, why tell us one year’s worth of GDP?

And if these are investments, why mention GDP at all? Investments depreciate, but they don’t evaporate at the start of a new fiscal year.
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I know what you mean, it is a bit like quoting how far you could drive on a oil tanker of crude, but it gives an idea of the scale of the claim in a way that people can . Unless he has actually secured investment at the scale of half the US total economic activity in one year then it is not really misleading.
 
Samson said:
Unless he has actually secured investment at the scale of half the US total economic activity in one year then it is not really misleading.
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I suspect it is a bit of number trickery, counting not only the investments themselves but all of the added secondary activity, and it probably factors in inflation over the duration.
 
You're assuming that Trump didn't just pluck the number out of nowhere, because of course he's never done that before, even when he wasn't visibly deteriorating.
 
If the your broken system didn't impeached a frail Biden with clear signs of dementia it sure won't impeach Trump for the same frailties as well!
And it's a shame! If Biden was impeached for his deterioration maybe legislation could've been produced to disqualify candidates with such frailties from running for POTUS and the world wouldn't have to deal with the hog emperor of doom!
 
Angst said:
so yea. firing epstein's prosecutor right now is really bad optics.

... i mean, it all is. let me rephrase.

maga is super angry over epstein right now. to them, this actually is a 'bad look'
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MAGA will get over it just like they get over everything else. The MAGA media has already started spinning and pushing a "lets move on from Epstein, stop talking about it" narrative.
 
Could they make it any more painfully obvious that they're in a cult? Rather than call out the obvious hypocrisy and double-think from their dear leaders, they're just going to roll over and pretend that they were never interested? "We have always been at war with Eastasia."
 
Sommerswerd said:
MAGA will get over it just like they get over everything else. The MAGA media has already started spinning and pushing a "lets move on from Epstein, stop talking about it" narrative.
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This is where we find out is the "progressive" media have learnt anything in the last few years. The MAGA media would not let an electorally advantageous issue fade from the media cycle, so if the powers that be on the "left" wanted to they could stop it happening.
 

US Senate approves $9bn cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funds​

The US Senate has passed a bill that seeks to cut $9bn (£6.7bn) from funds previously approved for spending by Congress, including cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid.

The 51-48 vote happened just before dawn on Thursday, following an hours-long overnight "vote-a-rama", as the Republican-led Senate negotiated amendments.

The bill - a so-called rescissions package that allows Congress to claw back approved funding - is part of a larger effort to reduce federal spending by President Donald Trump.

It now returns to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress that had previously passed a version of the bill with $9.4bn in proposed cuts.

"It's a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said before the final vote.

Senators had previously disagreed over a proposition in the House version of the bill that would have included roughly $400m in cuts to Pepfar, the US-backed HIV/Aids programme.

Republicans were able to reach a majority after an amendment was made to keep the funding in the budget.

However, dozens of other amendments to maintain international aid spending levels and funding for public broadcasting were rejected.

The Senate version of the bill approved on Thursday would still cut roughly $8bn from multiple aid programmes, including global health programmes under USAID, the US's main philanthropic arm.

The bill would also cut more than $1bn from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS as well as radio stations on which many rural Americans rely.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, from Alaska, was one of two Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting against the bill, in part due to the cuts to public broadcasting.

The bill will next head to the House for a vote, where its path remains unclear after $400m was reduced from House-proposed spending cuts.

When asked about the changes, House Speaker Mike Johnson said: "We wanted them to pass it unaltered like we did."

Both the House and Senate must agree on a version of the rescissions package before it expires on Friday, and Republicans lose their chance to cut the funds.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjx0w8eejyo
 
amadeus said:
I suspect it is a bit of number trickery, counting not only the investments themselves but all of the added secondary activity, and it probably factors in inflation over the duration.
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Do you really find this more likely than that he just made the number up?
 
Trump has been diagnosed with Chronic venous insufficiency after folks saw him with swollen lower legs over the past few weeks.

Chronic venous insufficiency is a condition in which valves inside certain veins don’t work the way they should, which can allow some of the blood to pool or collect in the veins. About 150,000 people are diagnosed with it each year, and the risk goes up with age. Symptoms can include swelling in the lower legs or ankles, aching or cramping in the legs, varicose veins, pain or skin changes. Treatment may involve medication or, in later stages, medical procedures.
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That is great news!
 
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