Tag: Donald Trump

So Trump posted this fucking obscenity last week, and the fact that it’s AI is actually the least bad thing about it. Patton, Trump, MacArthur? Jesus FUCK, man, you are unworthy to breathe the same atmosphere as those other two. They actually showed up to fight wars and didn’t try to buy their way out of serving. They didn’t fall asleep and shit their pants in the middle of the fighting like you would’ve done. They would have absolutely beaten the shit out of you for comparing yourself to them. Indeed, as Snopes observes, you did more than just that:

Additionally, the image incorrectly showed Patton and MacArthur with two general’s stars. Patton was a four-star general and MacArthur was a five-star general. The fake image depicts Trump as a four-star general, like Patton. In reality, though Trump is commander in chief of the military as president, that title is civilian and does not grant the holder general’s stars.

This is stolen valour (having had friends and relatives who’ve served in the past, that’s something I hate and take seriously) and the grossest insult I can imagine to every current or past serving member of the US military, all of whom should refuse to take any orders from him. But then I saw a variant this evening:

“Trump’s tweet showing “Patton, Trump, MacArthur” with Trump replaced with an airport catering cart”, quoth the alt text. This came via Greg Gbur on Bluesky, and it was… confusing. I felt there was a joke here, but damned if I was getting it. So I just thought “eh” and kept scrolling.

When suddenly…

…it made sense.

Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey to Britain last month when the White House said he was flying aboard ⁠Air Force One, in an extraordinary ruse – prompted by an Iranian assassination threat – that involved hiding the president in an airport catering container, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.
The operation took place when Trump was in Ankara for a Nato summit with world leaders, according to the Post. The president reportedly boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras, and then was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, a US official told the Post. […]
Trump’s actual location was concealed from journalists and some White House staff. A US official told the Post that a credible threat to Trump involving Iran set the “deception operation” in motion.

…How BIG was this catering cart, though? Cos Trump is not a small man, and the aisles on planes are narrow so the carts can’t be too big… Anyway, as Mr Boudreau above notes, this news has indeed made quite a few people angry, cos it basically means Trump was leaving the White House press corps as potential targets (assuming the threat was real and not just something contrived to make Mushroom Cock feel important), but as the Guardian article also notes, this isn’t the first time this has happened, and frankly, the vision of the successor of Patton and MacArthur sneaking away is… kind of worth it. If that picture was already inherently preposterous, the reality just made it even more so.

EDIT (the following night): Just saw this interesting point being made, it’s almost like the “credible threat” story was bullshit or something:

The World Cup is finally over, with Spain having dispatched Argentina in extra time… the latter were unimpressed by this, which led to a bit of biff after the whistle blew:

However, once trophy time came around, everyone remembered who the real villain is:

Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino were booed as they took to the field for the presentation ceremony before the US president attempted to gatecrash Spain’s victory party.
Trump arrived at the stadium on Marine One, with the president’s helicopter first flying over the stadium about 45 minutes before kick-off. He sat in a glassed-in section of luxury seats for the match, along with Infantino. Other dignitaries and former players sat nearby, including Spain’s king, Felipe VI, Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, and Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Trump was briefly shown on the video screens at the stadium after the US national anthem was played. There were scattered boos from some in the crowd but nothing like the hostile reception he has received at other sporting events during his presidency. However, when the US president and Infantino came on to the field for the presentation after Spain clinched victory, boos rang out around the stadium. The White House pool report said that ambient crowd noise, which had been sitting at approximately 78 decibels before their introduction, rose to 84 decibels when Trump entered the field.
Then, after Trump presented Spain with the World Cup trophy, he attempted to stand with the team at the side of the podium as they celebrated before Infantino quietly ushered him away.

As someone I saw noted, this must’ve been galling for Trump, cos the latter is… not exactly well disposed towards Spain…

…Because Spain are as tired of his shit as the rest of us, and were understandably unwilling to get involved in his Iran bullshit, so it must’ve been slightly uncomfortable for him to have to present the trophy to Spain in the presence of the king and the Spanish PM. Mark Carney’s presence was probably a bit bothersome for him too, given that Canada has lately been cursed with wildfires that have affected the US too and Trump’s response to that has been to blame Carney for not controling them and threatening a new 25% tariff. But I still think the Spain victory would’ve been more infuriating. At least he seems to have stayed awake for the event…

As I have possibly said more than once before, I’m kind of sick of those people who get the vapours about Trump doing something he legally can’t do, as if they think he thinks he is constrained in any way by little things like laws. That said, when a court finally deigns to do something about it, it’s always pleasant to see, and though the renaming of the Kennedy Centre was a minor thing compared to, you know, international incidents in Iran and Venezuela, there was something singularly irritating about him doing that, it just seemed particularly egregious for some reason. For all Kennedy’s faults, he didm’t and doesn’t deserve to be associated with Mushroom Cock, who seems to have taken the judge’s decision… personally. I know he’s prone to verbal diarrhoea on Truth Social but he really went off on this one, as far as I can tell that’s a single post (just divided in four, click to enlarge, etc).  On the plus side, maybe performers will actually want to play there again if his name’s not on it…

OK. According to the story that I presume this Cody Simpson believes, Jesus was judicially killed by the Romans. Trump is still alive, even if only just, and his rotten physical health will almost certainly do him in before the courts ever will. I think that’s a slight difference between him and that Christ character (we will, of course, leave aside the theological question of whether the latter still “lives” or not)…

But there was one bit of levity from the White House in the last couple of days, with Mushroom Cock posting an AI picture of himself as Jesus:

This was… interestingly timed, given Krasnov’s recent dispute with the Pope; he posts this bullshit all the time cos someone insists on making it, and usually people just roll their eyes and sigh wearily at the old cunt, but this time even the cult are saying “WTF, dude?”. Among them:

Riley Gaines used to be a professional swimmer before changing careers and becoming a professional transphobe instead; and while she’s not wrong about Trump benefitting from a little humility, she’s also a champion fool for thinking he’d ever give into it. He’s not capable of humility and I don’t believe he even understands the concept. And in any case he’s not interested in her opinions:

That’s YOU told, woman! But the best part of the whole story is there: “He said he believed the photo depicted him as a doctor, not Jesus” and only the Fake News could possibly construe him as looking like that Christ character.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never met any doctor who healed people just with the light glowing from his hands. I don’t know what’s worse, the idea that he might actually believe that, the idea that he thinks the rest of us would be believe that, or the idea that at least some of the cult WILL believe that. And why does the guy he’s “healing” look so familiar…

…Ah, THAT’S why. I’ve seen quite a few people comment on the similarity, one wit reckoned that whatever AI created the Jesus Trump image had just consumed so many photos of the two together that it just had to stick Epstein in there. Anyway, Trump’s deleted the silly thing now cos he doesn’t like “confusing” people, which must be the first time he’s ever worried about being confusing… good thing nothing ever fully disappears from the Internet, eh…

TL;DR: the cunt basically caved in. Per the Graun:

According to state media, Iran will only accept the war’s conclusion once details are finalised in line with a 10-point peace plan reportedly submitted to the White House via Pakistani intermediaries.
The list of 10 points, published by Iranianstate media, include a number of conditions the US has rejected in the past. The plan requires:

* The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran.
* Continued Iranian control over the strait of Hormuz.
* US military withdrawal from the Middle East.
* An end to attacks on Iran and its allies.
* The release of frozen Iranian assets.
* A UN security council resolution making any deal binding.

In the version released in Farsi, Iran also included the phrase “acceptance of enrichment” for its nuclear program. But for reasons that remain unclear, that phrase was missing in English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists.

All of this still has to be negotiated and agreed to, of course, but the mere fact that President Robert E. Lee called this “workable” suggests he’s generally cool with it. I think the main sticking point will be Israel, who expanded the conflict into Lebanon just for the hell of it; Bibi apparently said he welcomes the ceasefire but insists upon leaving Lebanon out of it. I have a feeling Israel will treat this alleged ceasefire like they did the one in Gaza, i.e. the people there can go to hell and Israel can do whatever the fuck it wants.

Anyway, that might be Armageddon staved off for another couple of weeks. Possibly. If Netanyahu can keep his hand off it for long enough. I don’t have any more words for this whole debacle.