Thread: President Donald Trump

^Okay
It seems he's losing the plot.

Donald Trump’s final 13 days as US president pose a grave national security threat and warrant his immediate removal from office, politicians and activists said on Thursday.

Trump incited a mob of supporters to stage an insurrection at the US Capitol building in Washington, leading to four deaths, 68 arrests and bipartisan outrage.

The assault on the citadel of American democracy fueled a sense of foreboding about what the president, who possesses the nuclear codes, is capable of before he makes way for Joe Biden on 20 January. He could, for example, encourage his followers to march on government buildings and other state capitols again.

“He needs to be removed,” said Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman. “He’s a threat to this country. We’re not safe with him in the White House. Our president is this country’s greatest national security threat.”

Walsh added: “What he did yesterday, he could do again tomorrow. He could call another 50,000 people to Washington DC on Sunday to do whatever. He can use the power of his office to incite violence and insurrection again any day for the next 13 days.”

Trump is reportedly in a downward spiral as his time runs out at the White House, raging about his election loss, ignoring the deadly coronavirus pandemic and ever more delusional, paranoid and out of touch with reality. He feels betrayed by allies including Mike Pence, the vice-president who rubber-stamped the election result in the early hours of Thursday.

The Axios website reported: “Some stalwart aides and confidants – after years of enduring the crazy, and trying to modulate the chaos – have given up trying to communicate with him, considering him mentally unreachable.”
The sense of implosion in Trump’s last days was underlined by the resignations on Wednesday of four administration officials including Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and a former White House press secretary.

The president even suffered the indignity of his prized Twitter account being suspended and Facebook and Instagram banning him indefinitely. He is now in perhaps the most volatile and unpredictable phase of his presidency.

Kurt Bardella, a senior adviser at the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, said: “Twitter at one point decided he shouldn’t be able to have access to his Twitter, and yet this is someone who has access to our nuclear launch codes. There’s an incongruity there.”

He added: “He’s shown that he poses a clear and present danger to the welfare of our country. When you direct and cheer on a coup d’etat attempt while people are trying to ransack the United States Capitol, you’re not just a danger you are an enemy to the United States of America and should be treated as such.”

In a recent joint statement, all 10 living former defense secretaries issued a stark warning against the military interfering in a peaceful transfer of power. The army has also felt compelled to issue a statement asserting its independence from politics.

Fears mount that Trump’s final 13 days in office pose a security threat | US news | The Guardian

Originally Posted by Cujo

It seems he's losing the plot.

One thing that fascinates me about this apparently unhinged leader is the way that he has kept the Trump narrative alive so close to the end of his presidency. Normally you'd expect to be reading many articles about the Democrats' plans and the 'lame duck president.' Any other lame duck president would have been consigned to the inside pages with maybe just a couple of stories about which of his buddies got pardoned. Trump has managed to keep himself in the headlines. In an abhorrent way, certainly, but undeniably successfully.
A clear and present danger, indeed.

Originally Posted by Shutree

One thing that fascinates me about this apparently unhinged leader is the way that he has kept the Trump narrative alive so close to the end of his presidency. Normally you'd expect to be reading many articles about the Democrats' plans and the 'lame duck president.' Any other lame duck president would have been consigned to the inside pages with maybe just a couple of stories about which of his buddies got pardoned. Trump has managed to keep himself in the headlines. In an abhorrent way, certainly, but undeniably successfully.
A clear and present danger, indeed.

Your not kidding.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
And you have done WHAT? if you believe your own dribble.
Put down the bottle.

I don't believe the people i grew up with and that are around me now are racist, If you believe the people around you and in the streets and schools are racist, what have you done?

Originally Posted by Cujo

WTF are you dribbling about now?
Gone into complete meltdown mode now that the fat lady has sung? (and the dems control the senate as well )

Cujo sits comfortably in Red China and tells everyone how their politics should be

Originally Posted by deeks

I don't believe the people i grew up with and that are around me now are racist, If you believe the people around you and in the streets and schools are racist, what have you done?

He lives in Xi's Red China

Originally Posted by deeks

I don't believe the people i grew up with and that are around me now are racist, If you believe the people around you and in the streets and schools are racist, what have you done?

Again, wtf are you on about ? Put DOWN the bottle and step away.
This is the Trump thread.

Originally Posted by Backspin

He lives in Xi's Red China

And the people around me are racist (many of them). Not much I can do.

either way he's white knighting for Deekhead.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Cujo sits comfortably in Red China and tells everyone how their politics should be

Who have I told how their politics should be?
And what difference does it make where I am?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Don't matter to me or Cujy.

Wholly Phark, I had no idea about cujo, just went back on these pages, 1 by 1, He is really in CCP control.
And hey man if you are trying to fuck with us about how the CCP is better than anything else, die like a dog after what they brought on this world. Other than that i apologize for the snide and cocky remarks i make to you, nothing personal but now i understand why you liked Biden so much.

Originally Posted by deeks

Don't matter to me or Cujy.

Of course it doesn't matter to you, you are too stupid to understand it.

Originally Posted by deeks

Wholly Phark, I had no idea about cujo, just went back on these pages, 1 by 1, He is really in CCP control.
And hey man if you are trying to fuck with us about how the CCP is better than anything else, die like a dog after what they brought on this world. Other than that i apologize for the snide and cocky remarks i make to you, nothing personal but now i understand why you liked Biden so much.

please quote a post that would lead you to think that. (you won't because you A:can't use the quote function, and B: Such a post doesn't exist except in your fevered imagination. )

Originally Posted by Cujo

please quote a post that would lead you to think that. (you won't because you A:can't use the quote function, and B: Such a post doesn't exist except in your fevered imagination. )

Ah Just click on the page numbers up top mate, 1171, then 1170, then 1169 and so on and so on, go through 5 or 6 pages or so and read all the comments. It just caused me to realize that you live in CHYNAH, and you dont have access to all the info.

Originally Posted by deeks

Ah Just click on the page numbers up top mate, 1171, then 1170, then 1169 and so on and so on, go through 5 or 6 pages or so and read all the comments. It just caused me to realize that you live in CHYNAH, and you dont have access to all the info.

I have access to all the info you do.
Isn't modern technology wonderful.

Originally Posted by deeks

Ah Just click on the page numbers up top mate, 1171, then 1170, then 1169 and so on and so on, go through 5 or 6 pages or so and read all the comments. It just caused me to realize that you live in CHYNAH, and you dont have access to all the info.

It's all well and good learning how to click, now you have to learn how to read.

More Trump administration resignations


Five officials at the Federal Aviation Administration, the entire non-career political staff except the agency's administrator, have resigned, according to an email sent by the FAA's chief-of-staff to senior managers on Thursday evening and obtained by NBC News.


"This evening, the Secretary and the Administrator received resignation letters from all our non-career staff members here at FAA. These resignations will be effective Monday evening. Our colleagues’ decisions, given the gravity of yesterday’s events, are understandable. Like all of us, they are outraged by the brazen and violent attack on one of the sacred institutions of American democracy," said Angela Stubblefield.


The assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, Elinore F. McCance-Katz, at the Department of Health and Human Services also resigned on Thursday, according to a statement she released. She said that she had planned to stay on until Biden became president but her plans "abruptly changed" after she saw the violent takeover of the Capitol.


"I believe that this behavior was totally unacceptable and, in my own heart, I simply am not able to continue," she wrote, and then subtly implied that Trump is to blame. "Because I believe that the mental health of our people has suffered so greatly under the stresses of COVID-19, the social justice issues that have been so painful for so many, and now with the rending of our nation over questions raised about the presidential election, I cannot support language that results in incitement of violence and risks our very existence."







More than 200 lawmakers support removing Trump from office


More than 200 members of Congress are calling for Trump to be removed from office either through the 25th Amendment, impeachment or the president resigning. That's up from 100 lawmakers on Thursday morning, hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.


The group of lawmakers includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who publicly urged Vice President Mike Pence yesterday to meet with the president's Cabinet and invoke the 25th Amendment. Pelosi made clear that the House is prepared to move forward with impeachment if Pence decides not to take action. He said Thursday he opposes using the 25th Amendment.


Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is the lone Republican explicitly calling on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, though Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, said in a local TV interview Thursday, "If the Cabinet decided to do that, I would not oppose it."



More Trump administration resignations

The rats are jumping ship.

^^And so full of rue.


Republican senators now regret not doing more to contain Trump

Republican senators say they feel a sense of growing regret over not standing up to President Trump sooner — a day after a violent mob ransacked the Capitol building in one of the darkest and most humiliating days in U.S. history.


One Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss his conversations with GOP colleagues acknowledged GOP lawmakers should have served as a stronger check on the president over the past four years.


“We should have done more to push back, both against his rhetoric and some of the things he did legislatively,” said the lawmaker. “The mistake we made is that we always thought he was going to get better. We thought that once he got the nomination, and then once he got a Cabinet he was going to get better, he was going to be more presidential.”

MORE Republican senators now regret not doing more to contain Trump | TheHill

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Chao is the wife of McConnell, don't you think there was a conversation between her and hubby concerning the prospect that as a cabinet member she will have to take a position on the 25th amendment proposal, and how her position will reflect on McConnell? Same with Betsy , they did not resign in disgust. They avoided their last chance to take a stand.

Of course, they did that is exactly what these resignations are all about. They are cowards and that is par the course for this administration hence rats jumping ship.

Originally Posted by misskit

Republican senators now regret not doing more to contain Trump

To little too late...

Originally Posted by misskit

One Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss his conversations with GOP colleagues acknowledged GOP lawmakers should have served as a stronger check on the president over the past four years.

Unreal. Just unreal. Still hiding under the shield of anonymity. Coward.