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Summary

Seventy days into his second term, Donald Trump faces growing internal turmoil and public backlash. Allies report he’s making late-night angry calls, upset over negative press and policy setbacks.

The "Signalgate" scandal and GOP resistance to new tariffs have shaken his administration. Trump blames National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a messaging blunder and resents criticism of his deportation efforts.

His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered.

Republicans fear economic fallout from his trade policies, raising concerns about recession and inflation.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm supposing this dumbfuck really thought he was going to get praise for this?

The problem is that he's been safely ensconced in a bubble his entire fucking life. He's Patient Zero when it comes to rich white failsons failing upwards, FFS.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe everybody is just tired from all the winning?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (7 children)

And the media is playing softball with him. This is the media not calling him out on all his bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"friends" you keep using this word but I'm not sure you know what it means.

People close to him have stated they loathe him. What they love is money and power. Nobody that knows him truly cares about him.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The orange cunt would have an aneurysm if only the "Press" actually treated him fairly. Instead they sane wash his bullshit, and tiptoe around him without ever using the words "Liar", "convicted felon" or "rapist"..... The press have never treated anyone so favorably, and still he whines and cries like a stuck little pig. He gets $1 billion free publicity every single day. Fuck him with a cactus. No lube ! Edit: And fuck the press! They are responsible for Drumpf!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Leave the poor cactus out of this. This is why man invented angle grinders.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Thing is, he's not doing anything. He's just riding the train. He doesn't understand or care about the stuff the people around him are doing. He believed them when they said it would make him beloved.

He's just an idiot snake oil salesman.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let the fucker rage. Get that blood pressure up ... one can only hope for a heart attack.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What fucking "friends" does this guy have?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

People who find him useful.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Next step the Dipshit-in-chief will start saying bad-mouthing him and the gov is a criminal offense. I mean, they're already giving out felonies over vandalizing Tesla's...

Literal Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (7 children)

His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered?

What plans? He's not even tried to do either one in even a meaningless, symbolic way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Well he did yell at Zelensky?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Be fair. He tried nothing and is all out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

I'm so fucking tired of the incessant sane-washing. Just constant gaslighting from all sides to make me feel crazy for freaking out about this shit. I'm sick of it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

His plan was to pressure them the way he’s used to pressuring people in his business dealings. The only problem is that countries like Ukraine aren’t just businesses that he can stiff, drag to court, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

His attempt was a concept of a plan.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I'm sure he's still trying though.

I'm so tired of all the "reasonable language" used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that's me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

oh sure...it's a 'press' problem

can only shine a pile of shit for only so long, Donald.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The fact that McHitler hasn't stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe God isnt all powerful and is forced to watch all she made kill itself over and over in ever more savage ways.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God realized they fucked up with all us uppity hyper-hierarchical monkeys and is going for a hard reset, or never existed. Change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If god, in the christian, all-knowing and all-powerful sense even exists, she must fucking hate us, because she allowed Drumf to happen. I could never venerate a god who is that callous and spiteful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

St. George Carlin

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Around 13,000 children under the age of 5 die every day. I’d love to see god explain that lol

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Lucifer: I'm not in the business of murdering innocent children. That's God's jurisdiction.

- The Devil's Carnival

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

"I work in mysterious ways."

  • God (probably)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe who you think god is is all wrong? Maybe it's the other guy or girl or it who's really in charge.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been thinking about that myself, with my shitty religious upbringing. This is what god wants. And, if you're Jewish and you've at least heard the phrase "god's chosen people," I just wonder how you square that with one of the worst people to live having killed 6 million of them. God was really looking out for the chosen people that day, let me tell ya...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

He doesn't "think". Ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

How dare they report facts! The facts are out to get me! They never favor my decisions!

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