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[TommiG88]

I wanted to visit the US this year on the way to Mexico for our honeymoon. We won’t, and I also won’t be taking US Dollars, but exchange for Peso’s instead.

 

[dirty harry]

Something, something engage diplomacy. Something, something we will work with the President in addressing his concerns.

I doubt we do much else. The other European countries not included in the tariffs will be wary of causing a fuss.

Theres just no strength or will shown by europe, its fractured and weak, and well whonis going to stand up to Trump?

Its easy for Scandanavian leaders to tweet repetitive slogans, but whos going to stand and **** off the US edge of Greenlands coast?

Something is up though, why wouldnt Trump lire Greenlanders in with some economic advantage, some prosperous future talk, why does this all have to happen right now? In the grand scheme of things he could tee up Greenland and blame the next guy for ******* up the deal, or he could at least come about it in a more nuanced and timely manner, why does he have to bring the hammer down asap, especially with Venezuela, Russia Ukraine, ICE raids all ongoing?

I think hes sick, i geneuinely think hes after a massive legacy pay off before he goes.

 

[Seeker]

Theres just no strength or will shown by europe, its fractured and weak, and well whonis going to stand up to Trump?

Its easy for Scandanavian leaders to tweet repetitive slogans, but whos going to stand and **** off the US edge of Greenlands coast?

Something is up though, why wouldnt Trump lire Greenlanders in with some economic advantage, some prosperous future talk, why does this all have to happen right now? In the grand scheme of things he could tee up Greenland and blame the next guy for ******* up the deal, or he could at least come about it in a more nuanced and timely manner, why does he have to bring the hammer down asap, especially with Venezuela, Russia Ukraine, ICE raids all ongoing?

I think hes sick, i geneuinely think hes after a massive legacy pay off before he goes.

After all the crude comments he made about Biden's mental stability.

 

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[Welsh Exile]

Theres just no strength or will shown by europe, its fractured and weak, and well whonis going to stand up to Trump?

Its easy for Scandanavian leaders to tweet repetitive slogans, but whos going to stand and **** off the US edge of Greenlands coast?

Something is up though, why wouldnt Trump lire Greenlanders in with some economic advantage, some prosperous future talk, why does this all have to happen right now? In the grand scheme of things he could tee up Greenland and blame the next guy for ******* up the deal, or he could at least come about it in a more nuanced and timely manner, why does he have to bring the hammer down asap, especially with Venezuela, Russia Ukraine, ICE raids all ongoing?

I think hes sick, i geneuinely think hes after a massive legacy pay off before he goes.

Trump Coin is his legacy pay off.

 

[dirty harry]

After all the crude comments he made about Biden's mental stability.

Trump will be the exact same age as Biden was when he left office, when he leaves office...

Amazing to think 12 years of American politics will have been led by 70 to 80 year old men clinging onto life like Mr Burns.

They have to impliment a mandatory retirement age FFS, otherwise we could see an 81 year old Hillary Clinton run again hahaha

 

[Reiser99]

While it should have happened earlier, this is the point where the rest of NATO have to make a stand or they will forever be butt ****** by America. If they roll over, and try to please or make a deal, then all it suggests to Trump and future administrations is that Europe/NATO are weak and we can bully them into doing what we want. On top of Russia and China seeing how weak they are.

The EU especially really needs to look at becoming as self-dependent as possible and I soon see the UK being frozen out of large local trade markets. I think the era of long distance trade is going to start declining and the big powers creating spheres of influence in terms of trade and security.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

While it should have happened earlier, this is the point where the rest of NATO have to make a stand or they will forever be butt ****** by America. If they roll over, and try to please or make a deal, then all it suggests to Trump and future administrations is that Europe/NATO are weak and we can bully them into doing what we want. On top of Russia and China seeing how weak they are.

The EU especially really needs to look at becoming as self-dependent as possible and I soon see the UK being frozen out of large local trade markets. I think the era of long distance trade is going to start declining and the big powers creating spheres of influence in terms of trade and security.

Unfortunately Europe has repeatedly shown itself to be completely incapable of taking any strong actions on anything. Europe has already signalled loud and clear to the world it is weak and has been doing that for years.

The thing is Europe does have the capacity to fight back, certainly economically. What it lacks is will. Europe seems overly cautious and more afraid of being branded imperialists than actually fighting back.

Until European politicians and European people get over the self inflicted guilt of the past and play by the same rules as everyone else, they will forever punch WAY below their weight. You wouldn't know it was the 2nd largest economic block in the world with the 2nd largest combined military spending the way they are so feeble.

 

[Welsh Exile]

Unfortunately Europe has repeatedly shown itself to be completely incapable of taking any strong actions on anything. Europe has already signalled loud and clear to the world it is weak and has been doing that for years.

The thing is Europe does have the capacity to fight back, certainly economically. What it lacks is will. Europe seems overly cautious and more afraid of being branded imperialists than actually fighting back.

Until European politicians and European people get over the self inflicted guilt of the past and play by the same rules as everyone else, they will forever punch WAY below their weight. You wouldn't know it was the 2nd largest economic block in the world with the 2nd largest combined military spending the way they are so feeble.

So what you’re saying is, Europe is Adam
Beard. I agree.

 

[dirty harry]

Unfortunately Europe has repeatedly shown itself to be completely incapable of taking any strong actions on anything. Europe has already signalled loud and clear to the world it is weak and has been doing that for years.

The thing is Europe does have the capacity to fight back, certainly economically. What it lacks is will. Europe seems overly cautious and more afraid of being branded imperialists than actually fighting back.

Until European politicians and European people get over the self inflicted guilt of the past and play by the same rules as everyone else, they will forever punch WAY below their weight. You wouldn't know it was the 2nd largest economic block in the world with the 2nd largest combined military spending the way they are so feeble.

Couldnt agree more, this type of situation was the reasoning behind the EU expansion in the first place, whats the point in creating a bloc to challenge on the global stage, if whenever its tested they just refer to independant countries to whimperly (is that a word) take action alone.

Speaking to the inlaws the other day, hardcore CDU voters, quite left leaning as youd expect rich Bevarians to be, they are disgusted with the German response, which apparently was supported by a round of apologies to everyone involved lol

 

[Vaquer]

Unfortunately Europe has repeatedly shown itself to be completely incapable of taking any strong actions on anything. Europe has already signalled loud and clear to the world it is weak and has been doing that for years.

The thing is Europe does have the capacity to fight back, certainly economically. What it lacks is will. Europe seems overly cautious and more afraid of being branded imperialists than actually fighting back.

Until European politicians and European people get over the self inflicted guilt of the past and play by the same rules as everyone else, they will forever punch WAY below their weight. You wouldn't know it was the 2nd largest economic block in the world with the 2nd largest combined military spending the way they are so feeble.

US having far right presidents may be a new norm but politicians everywhere will be thinking Trump's let's call it... antics are not yet a permanent feature and will go when he does. There's far right governments around the world including in the EU who don't do the dumb Trump stuff.

 

[Which Tyler]

I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when:

• He incited an insurrection against the government
• Mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans
• Separated children from their families, and lost those children in the bureaucracy
• Tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church
• Tried to block all Muslims from entering the country
• Got impeached, got impeached again
• Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history
• Pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden
• Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
• Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV
• Took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community
• Diverted military funding to build his wall
• Caused the longest government shutdown in US history
• Called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"
• Lied 30,000 times (probably an underestimate, even if keeping it to the last decade)
• Banned transgender people from serving in the military
• Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions
• Vetoed the defence funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
• Refused to release his tax returns
• Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion
• Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history
• Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers
• Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist
• Refused to concede the 2020 election
• Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House
• Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl
• Called neo-Nazis “very fine people”
• Suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID
• Abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey
• Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans
• Incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
• Withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords
• Withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal
• Withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances
• Insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter
• Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op
• Failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies
• Called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries
• Called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation"
• Claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere
• Forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader
• Believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe
• Suggested the US should buy Greenland
• Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges
• Repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people"
• Claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases
• Violated the emoluments clause
• Thought that Namibia was a country
• Told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public
• Called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution
• Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet
• Nominated a corrupt head of the EPA
• Nominated a corrupt head of HHS
• Nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department
• Nominated a corrupt head of the USDA
• Praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticising allies
• Refused to allow the presidential transition to begin
• Insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death
• Spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticising Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president
• Falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote
• Falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
• Considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions
• Mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID
• Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
• Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus"
• Hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offences including his campaign manager and national security adviser
• Pardoned several of his shady associates
• Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories
• Got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)
• Had a Secretary of State who called him a moron
• Forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history
• Botched the COVID vaccine rollout
• Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him
• Charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
• Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate
• Claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear
• Called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas"
• Used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
• Opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling
• Got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers
• Claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US
• Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
• Blew off honouring American war dead in France because it was raining
• Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle
• Got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters"
• Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
• Botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
• Threw paper towels and toilet paper at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
• Pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes
• Thought that the Virgin islands had a President
• Drew on a map with a sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane
• Allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing
• Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos
• Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
• Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
• Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House
• Tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man
• Refused to attend his successors’ inauguration
• Nominated the worst Education Secretary in history
• Threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted
• Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci
• Promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t)
• Allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues
• Struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble
• Called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ"
• Threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders
• Went ahead with rallies filled with mask-less supporters in the middle of a pandemic
• Claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts"
• Seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution
• Demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director
• Praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic paedophiles
• Completely gutted the Voice of America
• Placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service
• Claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
• Suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country
• Suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public
• Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported
• Reduced the number of refugees the US accepts
• Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames

 

[Which Tyler]

• Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
• Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
• Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
• Used soldiers as campaign props
• Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
• Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
• Hired a ton of white nationalists
• Politicised the civil service
• Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government
• Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
• Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
• Insulted reporters of colour and women reporters and women reporters of colour
• Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uigurs
• Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
• Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election
• Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
• Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
• Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
• Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
• Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney
• Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
• Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
• Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
• Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
• "Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
• Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
• Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
• Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
• Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
• Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
• Said that he had a special aptitude for science
• Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
• Blurted out classified information to Russian officials
• Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
• Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
• Hired Stephen Miller
• Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Largo where everyone could hear them
• Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
• Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
• Tried to get Russia back into the G7
• Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
• Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
• Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
• Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
• Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
• Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
• Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
• Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
• Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by"
• F***ed up the Census
• Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organisation in the middle of a pandemic
• Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings"
• Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
• Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
• Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
• Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump
• Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
• Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
• Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
• Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
• Created a commission to whitewash American history
• Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
• Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there
• Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
• Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others
• Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
• Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
• Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
• Falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
• Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
• Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
• Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
• Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
• Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
• Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
• Touted a “super-duper” secret “hypersonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
• Retweeted a gif calling Biden a paedophile
• Forced through security clearances for his family
• Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
• Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
• Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender
• Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
• Nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
• Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a campaign event
• Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
• Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
• Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
• Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasely Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
• Was proven to be close friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls
• Obsessed over low-flow toilets
• Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
• Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)
• Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
• Took advice from the MyPillow guy
• Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
• Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
• Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
• Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent
• Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defence secretary to resign in protest
• Insulted the leaders of Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and Sweden!!
• Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
• Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
• Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
• Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
• Left a NATO summit early in a huff
• Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
• Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
• Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise

But other than that, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment, he's been mostly fine, I guess...

 

[dirty harry]

• Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
• Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
• Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
• Used soldiers as campaign props
• Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
• Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
• Hired a ton of white nationalists
• Politicised the civil service
• Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government
• Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
• Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
• Insulted reporters of colour and women reporters and women reporters of colour
• Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uigurs
• Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
• Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election
• Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
• Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
• Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
• Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
• Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney
• Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
• Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
• Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
• Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
• "Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
• Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
• Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
• Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
• Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
• Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
• Said that he had a special aptitude for science
• Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
• Blurted out classified information to Russian officials
• Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
• Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
• Hired Stephen Miller
• Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Largo where everyone could hear them
• Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
• Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
• Tried to get Russia back into the G7
• Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
• Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
• Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
• Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
• Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
• Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
• Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
• Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
• Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by"
• F***ed up the Census
• Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organisation in the middle of a pandemic
• Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings"
• Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
• Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
• Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
• Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump
• Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
• Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
• Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
• Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
• Created a commission to whitewash American history
• Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
• Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there
• Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
• Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others
• Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
• Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
• Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
• Falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
• Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
• Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
• Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
• Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
• Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
• Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
• Touted a “super-duper” secret “hypersonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
• Retweeted a gif calling Biden a paedophile
• Forced through security clearances for his family
• Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
• Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
• Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender
• Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
• Nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
• Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a campaign event
• Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
• Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
• Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
• Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasely Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
• Was proven to be close friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls
• Obsessed over low-flow toilets
• Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
• Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)
• Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
• Took advice from the MyPillow guy
• Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
• Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
• Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
• Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent
• Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defence secretary to resign in protest
• Insulted the leaders of Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and Sweden!!
• Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
• Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
• Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
• Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
• Left a NATO summit early in a huff
• Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
• Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
• Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise

But other than that, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment, he's been mostly fine, I guess...

You ok hun?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

But other than that, what have the Roman's ever done for us?

 

[Welsh Exile]

You ok hun?

None of us are. We’re just counting down the days till he’s gone.

Joking aside, not that I can remember much of last week let alone 10 years ago but I remember in 2016 being like most people and initially thinking it was a joke that Trump could ever be president but obviously as time went on it became apparent, at least to me, he had a chance of winning. But, you know what, when he was sworn in, even though I had never considered him a serious person and thought he would make a terrible president, I didn’t really buy into the whole “he’ll be a disaster for the whole world” thing. I thought that was a bit of scare mongering.

In reality, in 2016, I never in a million years would’ve thought he’d even do 10% of those things and definitely not Jan 6th. I don’t even think the scaremongering at the time thought it would be as bad as it has been.

The really depressing thing is he’s still got plenty of time left.

 

[Which Tyler]

Worth noting - that was already out of date last year - eg. no mention of summary executions by ICE, or threatening Greenland (only of buying it)

 

[Saintjay]

• Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
• Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
• Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
• Used soldiers as campaign props
• Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
• Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
• Hired a ton of white nationalists
• Politicised the civil service
• Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government
• Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
• Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
• Insulted reporters of colour and women reporters and women reporters of colour
• Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uigurs
• Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
• Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election
• Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
• Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
• Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
• Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
• Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney
• Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
• Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
• Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
• Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
• "Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
• Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
• Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
• Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
• Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
• Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
• Said that he had a special aptitude for science
• Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
• Blurted out classified information to Russian officials
• Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
• Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
• Hired Stephen Miller
• Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Largo where everyone could hear them
• Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
• Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
• Tried to get Russia back into the G7
• Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
• Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
• Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
• Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
• Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
• Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
• Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
• Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
• Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by"
• F***ed up the Census
• Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organisation in the middle of a pandemic
• Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings"
• Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
• Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
• Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
• Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump
• Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
• Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
• Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
• Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
• Created a commission to whitewash American history
• Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
• Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there
• Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
• Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others
• Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
• Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
• Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
• Falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
• Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
• Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
• Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
• Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
• Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
• Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
• Touted a “super-duper” secret “hypersonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
• Retweeted a gif calling Biden a paedophile
• Forced through security clearances for his family
• Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
• Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
• Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender
• Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
• Nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
• Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a campaign event
• Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
• Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
• Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
• Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasely Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
• Was proven to be close friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls
• Obsessed over low-flow toilets
• Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
• Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)
• Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
• Took advice from the MyPillow guy
• Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
• Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
• Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
• Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent
• Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defence secretary to resign in protest
• Insulted the leaders of Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and Sweden!!
• Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
• Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
• Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
• Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
• Left a NATO summit early in a huff
• Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
• Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
• Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise

But other than that, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment, he's been mostly fine, I guess...

Good post, amazed we don't have a max word count.

 

[Which Tyler]

Good post, amazed we don't have a max word count.

We do - that's why it needed 2 posts.
Even with my... loquaciousness... this is the first time I've hit it - 10,000 characters, if you're interested