Dictators always blame others for their failings.
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LOL, like it's entirely on the drunkard from Faux.
Did donvict want everyone doing a stupid pose like his ridiculous mugshot photo? Or the one he did for his "presidential" photo?
as a tangent we really need to take journalists aside and talk to them about the phrases they're coining to avoid repeating themselves every time they need to describe "talking shit" or "yell at" in an article title.
I automatically down vote all posts with "slam" and "blast" in the headline. Doesn't matter what the actual news is
That shit needs to stop
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Add "cause and effect" to the list of things he does not grasp or pretends not to. There wasn't some time lord showing people the parade would be too festive. It's a decision made by birthday party attendees in advance which reflects poorly on his ego so it needs to be blamed on anybody but him.
Just like North Korea. Dear leader has to find someone to blame. Will it be wild dogs, or antiaircraft cannon?
that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.
If he didn't want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?
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Awwww.... no one showed up to wittle Donnie's birthday party.
I couldn't go. I have bone spurs
I don't know what to tell you, Turnip, except what we've been saying all along. Hire a bunch of clowns, expect a circus.
Is this of all things what gets him finally fired?
lol. The first time he almost got fired was because he tried to blackmail the president of Ukraine. The second time, it was because he demanded the governor of Georgia “find votes“ for him so he could win the 2020 election.
And neither of those got him fired. In fact, you may notice that he’s been reelected.
Having read a couple of Michael Wolff's books, I'm both stunned and unsurprised they're letting him wander around the trumpworld again.
He describes first person accounts of the most horrifying, corrupt, disgusting, pathetic episodes of demented rapist assholery and everybody's like "well it's normal". It's amazing.
How any journalist from a corporate news sewer can read these and then write the toothless dreck they do about this administration is plainly a crime.
This is so fkn hilarious. And I hope those cunts choke to death, that would be boffo.
“We had the parade the other day. They said 100 percent chance of rain. It didn’t rain,” Trump told Mark Carney as the Canadian prime minister smiled politely.
What a spoiled baby, whining about how his birthday party didn't live up to his dreams.
Kegseth had an important meeting
whozat
Alex Lace according to a reverse image search. No real idea who he is.
This Presidential outburst is brought to you by:
Coinbase
Trump Mobile would have been a better sponsor
Lol. We'll get it right for the next 250th anniversary. Promise! Pinky promise, even!
For Trump's next birthday, he will sell a parade of NFTs featuring lilly-white AI-generated military warriors with faces so hard it will make his pussy wet.
No one likes you bitch! That's why no one showed up to your backwoods shin-dig. You're a huuuuge orange joke. The likes of which the world has never seen before.
And only $46 million down the drain
What's that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).
At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.
He also systematically overcharges for Secret Service accomodations as well, including golf cart rentals for following him around.
He actually makes profit on his security detail. Welcome to the United States of Ferengenar.
He's not happy they smiled and waved at the people they signed away their lives to protect.
I mean some of them might actually believe that. But Trump is not wrong here. They signed away their lives to protect Billionaires and their property. There is a reason as things get worse and worse that the police and military budget gets bigger and bigger. Theyre the class traitors that protect the wealthy from both domestic and foreign threats. With the military now being turned inward as well to bring a taste of American foreign policy to its own citizens that dare to resist.
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This is how Trump treats the US Army soldiers who were forced to march in front of Trump for a day that was supposed to celebrate them and their accomplishments.
Thank you to the US Army for trying to pit something together that would be fun for US citizens. If it weren't for Trump smearing his shit all over everything I'm sure plenty more would have turned out to show their support as real Americans celebrating real patriots rather than the fascists so many US soldiers have died fighting against.
Didn't see much of it but the uniforms and equipment from every era was hella cool. They actually made it about army history, not a goose-stepping show of force.
This is precisely why Trump is so angry
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"He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
The Disaster in Chief doesn't even know what the fuck "hamming it up" means. 🤦♂️
Guess he'll be trying to outlaw smiling and looking happy now
Don't worry, his policies will stop everyone smiling.
No need: in 6 months of Trump's rule you will lose the ability to smile by yourself, without any laws.
It's so lovely to hear that he's unhappy!
Hopefully it really hurts his fee-fees that he's despised by anyone with a remotely functioning brain