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beb's avatar

The thing about old Joe Biden is that, even if he were senile, and he never was, he was surrounded by bright, educated professionals who knew how government worked. Trump on the other hand, is clearly senile but he surrounded himself with people who were, hard as it is to imagine, even dumber than he is.

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Perhaps hand puppets and cookies?

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Skip 's Gmail's avatar

Merz and Macron took turns jingling their keys in front of Baby Dump so he would allow everyone to finish dinner without throwing a fit.

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John Thorstensen's avatar

As I have said on this forum before, I have a friend who is an architect in NYC. Back in the '90s, his firm briefly signed on to do a design for the Trump organization. My friend did design-concept presentations for meetings that included Trump himself.

He told me that Trump had a pathological need to be the center of attention at all times. He never sat through a presentation -- after a few minutes he'd claim to have another meeting and leave. My friend said that Trump's style of interaction reminded him of the coping strategies of some learning-disabled people he knew.

Back then everyone in NY knew Trump was an incompetent buffoon. Too bad "The Apprentice" ran as long as it did ...

So these schedule adjustments by NATO come as no surprise.

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"M"'s avatar

"Too bad "The Apprentice" ran as long as it did ..."

Too bad too many people who didn't live in NYC or NJ (and even some who did, I guess) *believed The Apprentice was REAL*

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

But he Truth Socialed the ceasefire and everything! He even said "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

What more can one do to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Nemo's avatar

The name "Truth Social" has always irked me. It's closest in function to the Ministry of Truth from 1984. I think he should have stuck with the original Russian and called it Pravda. I'd love for someone to get an account on it and post messages as Krasnov.

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Kirsty Gnome-Poledance Himmler's avatar

Just forced myself to watch Drumpf's news conference from The Hague.

I can just see the thought bubbles.

{{{ Think I have time for a haircut? }}}

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"M"'s avatar

Why did you do that to your brain?

You can get credible reports of his relevant words later

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Nemo's avatar

The empty set. Yes.

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

"Cue that fucking Lee Greenwood song, we guess." It's turning into the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme by the minute...

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

Yakety Sax.

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

this administration is a sped-up Benny Hill clip over the credits...

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Russell Jones's avatar

All they need do is line up a bunch of Big Twucks and point TACO toward them.

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Valerie Starr's avatar

Give him a gold Sharpie, some old magazines with photos of himself and he’ll be busy circling his hands and writing “they’re not so tiny “.

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Mapledurham's avatar

In Europe, that text from Mark Rutte would be received as such an obvious, flagrant, visible-from-outer-space attempt at manipulation that it would get you absolutely nowhere with anyone over 6 years old. Thank God TFG doesn’t understand the shade he’s getting from Europe.

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Rad's avatar

Wouldn't be delicious if, as soon as he steps foot on the ground, they arrested him and charged him with unsolicited war crimes and haul is lard ass in front of a Hague tribunal?

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mfp-6s,7s,9s's avatar

hey, you know what else is always meeting at the Hague?...in fact, it's HQ'd there....🤔

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Kirsty Gnome-Poledance Himmler's avatar

Maybe the No-Balls Pee S'prise?

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Chris's avatar

I guess some countries prioritize such things as healthcare, childcare, eldercare, and education over military bases all over the world, dropping bombs everywhere, quelling peaceful domestic protest and birthday parades. I wish I lived in one of those countries.

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42tontom's avatar

Isn't this just the soft bigotry of low expectations? WELL ISN'T IT?

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Ana warner's avatar

Why are the rest of the real leaders enabling this moron? I’m with Spain and Canada… call out his lies, his ignorance and let the world see it.

Enabling a narcissist empowers them, ignoring or shaming them is better. The rest of the world needs to “grey rock” FOTUS!

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

Narcissistic collapse for someone with his tiny finger on the nuclear button is bad, m'kay?

I hope they have a contingency for just such an occurrence.

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Mapledurham's avatar

To be fair, Rutte’s text (like Macron’s White House appearance) was European for ‘You’re a giant baby. Here’s your binky. We are going to treat you like a grey rock.’

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