Donald Trump ripped into Iran and Israel for violating a ceasefire deal within hours of his triumphant announcement.
“You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing! Do you understand that?” he told reporters Tuesday morning on his way to the NATO summit in The Hague.
The odds of us experiencing a loser of this caliber again in our lifetimes is pretty slim.
Interestingly enough, the odds of me ever having a shred of respect for this country again in our lifetimes is also pretty slim.
The entire admin and half the country are losers of this caliber, you’re drowning in them. Nice thought though.
Closer to a third. Maybe two thirds if you include the lazy fucks that couldn’t be bothered to stand in line for a few minutes.
What blows my mind is even in states like Washington, California and Oregon, which utilize mail-in voting, only about 75% of registered voters participated. How hard is it to check some boxes and fling the letter in the mailbox?
Every accusation is an admission of guilt.
I think people are underestimating how big a loser Trump is. Like the people supporting him are losers, but it takes quite a bit to approach his unprecedented levels of loserhood.
Fuck this hurts to read, and empathize with.
Unfortunately people like Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, JD Vance, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and more still exist.
They’ll have to have the cannon custom made.
I just want to move back to when we were on course for Idiocracy. That’s preferable to whatever this is.
Not that I don’t like to see him miserable but if saying fuck counts as a meltdown, I meltdown every time I speak. Honestly, its not even a signifier of stress, its more likely to signal your being genuine
How many times can you recall a president cursing when talking to reporters? Even Trump doesn’t curse much in his tweets or press briefings. So it’s definitely notable.
He seemed calmer than his normal demeanour
It’s one of those things. When you can’t find a better way to express your frustration as an educated person than resorting to dropping f-bombs, it is indicative of a low vocabulary.
Anyone else with a basic high-school education thrust into the spotlight would find a way to express themselves and their thought in a clear and cohesive way.
But they are obviously the ones who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
There was a time when I would’ve agreed with you. I still endeavour to this day to avoid profanity.
Today, however, I don’t agree that using “fuck” is at all an indicator of a low vocabulary (except in the case of overuse, but that’s true of any word). There are emotions that civil people aren’t supposed to feel, so we need words that we aren’t supposed to use to express them.
Fuck can be used to great effect, and should be.
There are actually studies that show intelligence and more explicit language go hand-in-hand, so it’s actually the opposite of your presumption. When I find it, I’ll link the study here in a comment edit.
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Nice ego.
Yea. Its not that he used the word “fuck”. It is in the context of working with Netanyahu, then seeing that Netanyahu has no real respect for Trump or the US military as long as they support his wars. So Trump gets flustered realizing his Israeli buddy has no respect for the US and then says “fuck”. It just hows Trump has no international relations abilities and he doesn’t know what is going on.
There are no words that can express the same as curse words. Otherwise, we wouldn’t use them as much.
Words are words. And they are used to communicate. I don’t understand the American panic about this small set of words. They are words like any other.
Non-american countries also have some people that panic about curse words, but I don’t think they match the level of panic of Americans.
Your leaders curse to reporters? Lol, yea. I’m American but I am a dual citizen from Europe. No one is panicking here, but I appreciate your weird rant.
Ohhhh buddy , most of europe prides itself on their vast vocabulary of curse words/sentances and how they can say fuck your family in 50 different ways
Context matters. Someone using profanity more often than they otherwise would in the same context is generally a signifier of stress or excitement.
For fucks sake, me too.
(I apologise for the above meltdown)
Fucking hell, I’m having a meltdown in this very sentence.
Eh… “Fuck” is just a filler word for most New York Natives in general.
Whoever produced The Apprentice should commit seppuku in atonement for helping Trump build his platform.
OH NO, NOT THE F-WORD.
Seriously, why the fuck is this news?
If Obama had said “fuck” in office, wouldn’t have been 24/7 for two weeks on Fox News?
He would have been impeached and we would never have heard the end of the outrage from Fox.
Faux News isn’t news, so what’s your point?
So they have the excuse to write “trump explodes” in the headline
At some point even he has to realize that he’s a joke right?
Like even his syphillitic brain can’t not see what’s right in front of him forever, can it?
To other world leader’s he’s a joke. Someone who they can stroke his ego to get whatever they want, and then ignore him entirely and do whatever they feel like anyway.
“Israel…don’t drop those bombs” Israel had no intention of listening to him. Russia had no intention of listening to him. They make his sense of self importance skyrocket and so they say whatever they need to say to get him to do whatever THEY want him to do, and then don’t listen to him the rest of the time.
Is he really this fucking stupid?
That would probably happen as part of a narcissistic collapse. In the most extreme cases, it may trigger suicidal reactions.
Hope isn’t the right word for me. But I would very deeply enjoy Trump swinging from a noose of his own make.
Heh he’ll get replaced quickly, and a new cult leader will rise. I wonder who it’ll be. Vance and trumps family aren’t popular, neither is Musk. But then again, in a dictatorship popularity isn’t important.
He’s the one that cultivated the cult of personality. Some have tried to use it, but trump still has the final say on everything. I imagine if Trump disappeared, the base would fracture.
Fracture to where?
We already know conservatives are literally incapable of voting for anyone that doesn’t have an “R” next to their names. They may not worship the next one the way they worship Daddy Trump, but they’ll all 100% vote for whoever it is.
Fracture to irreverence where the component pieces eat each other. There is no future for the party after Trump except as various fringe groups claiming to be the “true” party.
My copium is that to me it looks like it’s not the party’s cult, it’s Trump’s cult, and it will collapse without him at the helm.
Lol. I’ve been experiencing the conservative cult for far too long to believe this.
There will be another one and conservatives will flock to him. And now that the bar is permanently and extremely lowered by Trump, you can expect him to be pretty fucking bad.
You’ve been experiencing a cult of an idea. The Republican party has transformed into a cult of personality with no clear successor.
There are cults of personality that have successfully transformed into a cult of ideas. Mormons and Scientology are examples. However, in each case, the person at the center fostered a clear successor, and that successor was able to make it last in the long run by centering around ideas. Scientology still has that successor around (David Miscavige), but there isn’t really a specific person in charge of the LDS. Not in the same way. Their leadership is now interchangeable, but replacing their ideas is a harder sell.
Trump has no successor, and isn’t interested in fostering one. It’s not JD Vance; nobody respects him, including Trump. It’s not Musk; he made the mistake of trying to be more popular than the boss, and he’s not a natural-born citizen, anyway. It’s not Peter Thiel; he prefers to be the power behind the throne. It’s not any of Trump’s adult children; they’re nothing but spoiled rich kids. It’s not any of the people in his cabinet; they’re all plebes using booze and cocaine to get through the day. It’s not Tucker or Matt Walsh or any of the other right-wing commentators; they’d just eat each other trying to get on top.
In a dictatorship, the rise to power is extremely dependent on being popular. Once established though, not so much. I’m guessing JD Vance, Musk, or some other Trump family member would not have sufficient following and the whole thing would topple over, as is fairly common after dear leader dies.
Oh, no, they’ll devolve into infighting. There won’t be enough shared ideals and actions to sustain Republicans as a political force. There will be fringe groups that linger on for a while. After almost three centuries, there are still two people left claiming the Shaker tradition; that’s a group that forbids sexual relations even for procreation, so you can see how they’d have trouble gaining new members. But they’re not a religious group that anyone really cares about, either. That’s how MAGA will go eventually.
See also, Knitting Cat Lady, who is a former member of the Children of God cult, then the US Army, and then got a masters in organizational psychology around cults.
Yeah, to anyone that may be new to all this, I promise you and will bet my life savings on it, that conservatives will memory-hole Trump after he’s gone and be 100% onboard with the next criminal dunce the Republican party shits out.
I watched them do it with Bush Jr. We know how stupid conservatives are. That isn’t changing anytime soon. They have not, nor will they ever, learn anything.
Oh I never knew that had a name.
I love doing that to pathological narcissists, whenever safe.
At some point even he has to realize that he’s a joke right?
Nah. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
Is he really this fucking stupid?
Yes. Trump definitively answered the question of whether a complete, total, utter, absolute, unconditional moron can fail upwards and be fabulously wealthy.
This is what generational wealth in an ultra-capitalist society with a different justice system for the wealthy can produce. A monster. A stupid fucking monster.
Yes.
At some point even he has to realize that he’s a joke right?
Like even his syphillitic brain can’t not see what’s right in front of him forever, can it?
Is he really this fucking stupid?
You fail to understand how narcissism works. He’s literally incapable of believing anything negative about himself.
I wish I was that way honestly. I almost can’t believe anything positive about myself.
Yes.
The answer to your question is yes
But he asked them so nicely to not violate the ceasefire on his social media site! He said they’d only do a “Plane Wave”!
It is so weak that he expects the world to read his xitter as a news source and that he has to sign it to affirm that he is in fact (in all caps) THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Also where the heck is my thank you for my attention to this matter. Such an utter buffoon.
Dude has Netanyahu’s phone number, but he’s screaming into the void of the internet like some pleb? Yeah, definitely not a good look.
The problem is everyone else clearly. If only they just listen to him everything would be fine. Why is everyone so stupid!!? Why is no one listening to big brain??!
This is how you tell me that you haven’t been raised by narcissists without telling me that you haven’t been raised by narcissists.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
One of the more honest things he’s ever said.
There was no ceasefire
Surely he had concepts of a ceasefire
Someone should probably explain to this moron that a tweet saying, “We’ll stop bombing them if they stop bombing us” doesn’t count as a “ceasefire deal”.
Didn’t they settle everything in the middle east under his first term? The Saudis sent Trump’s inept, unqualified, security risk son in law nepotism hire Jared Kushner billions to manage afterward to get rich from to celebrate the long lasting peace they negotiated /s
Fucking idiot
here’s the link, sorry it’s reddit
Where?
shit, can you not see it? hold on I’m using an app, let me try changing the link text
Perfect, thank you!
wait, but it does, I just watched it, you just have to skip to the last 10 secs of the almost 4min vid
yeah the daily beast really fucking wanted me to watch a segment of Fox and Friends for that. kind of a letdown after all the hype.
I did enjoy hearing reporters just vomit verbal diarrhea at him.
“You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing! Do you understand that?”
Yes, we all understood that for a long time, and not just with this conflict - ironic you would say they “don’t know what the f- they’re doing”, though. Who would have thought diplomacy requires more than “I’m the ‘big guy’, so they’ll naturally listen to anything I have to say”. Who would have thought these long standing conflicts would require more than saying “let there be peace” to solve.
We all, nameless citizens of the world, have known it for a long time - even though we can’t do much about it - about Israel/Iran, about Russia/Ukraine, and so on. While you, toddler living in a golden bubble that you are, have been focusing exclusively on golfing and how to perfect the art of the grift, as well as securing golden parachutes from your grifter friends each time you manage to bankrupt a casino. So now you get to the big chair and think the chair is what gives you power, when in fact it was most of your predecessors’ hard work that gave so much power to the POTUS chair. The same power you’re now imploding.
At this point I’m wondering if there really was a ceasefire.
Everything this guy says is a lie until proven otherwise.
If I were a betting man, it seems very likely he just made the whole thing up. Perhaps he pitched the idea and was turned down by either Israel or Iran (probably both). Went to social media to proclaim his victory. Leading both countries to attach each other to show the whole thing was bullshit.
Let’s not forget, he claimed he was the lynch pin behind the India and Pakistan ceasefire, only to have both sides say he wasn’t involved at all.
Muslims and Jews have been fighting each other for nearly 3000 years.
If anyone thinks they’re going to be the one person who can stop that conflict, they’re absolutely delusional.
But Islam was founded 1400 years ago
In this case I meant the literal definition of Muslim, not just Islam. The Persians were fighting Judeans back in 500 BC over the same land. It’s still the same conflict, just under a different name millenia later.
I meant the literal definition of Muslim, not just Islam.
And what is that supposed to be?
The English definition is a follower of Islam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5If you take the translation from Arabic "someone in submission to the will and law of God” then I don’t see how that would not apply to religious Jews as well.
So it would really help your argument if you could provide a source that shows any significant meaning of Muslim outside the context of Islam.
But he said it sternly!
What a stupid comment
