The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[detrius]

Since the EU is a single market, the US already doesn't do any trade with Spain specifically, they only do trade with the EU.

The President doesn't know that though because he's stupid, so his handlers will be able to tell him without even lying that his command is being obeyed without having changed anything.

Well, it's not as if anyone ever explained to him how the single market works, right?

Oh, wait...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-eu-2017-4

Maybe we can summon Angela Merkel out of retirement to explain it to him again...

 

[detrius]

Wine, olive oil, and specialty foods are easy to find. Pedro Almadovar films are also a good option.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Free]

You don't need to sign it, Donald. Just an unnecessary formality,

(He could veto it, but it looks like he's TACO about that option.)

Trump says he won’t sign housing bill that’s set to become law at midnight

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill in protest of Republicans’ inability to advance separate elections overhaul legislation, dealing a major political blow to vulnerable lawmakers in his own party.

The housing bill is set to become law at midnight even without Trump’s signature. But GOP leaders had originally hoped to tout the moment as a historic economic achievement ahead of midterm elections that are likely to be defined by Americans’ concerns over the cost of living.

Instead, the sweeping legislation will now advance with minimal fanfare from a president who has dismissed it as “a yawn” and “so unimportant” compared to the elections legislation, which includes voter ID and proof-of-citizenship measures.

Trump will not let the Republicans have anything unless he gets his binkie Steal The Vote SAVE Act.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

(He could veto it, but it looks like he's TACO about that option.)

He doesn't want to risk having his veto overridden and the loss of face that would cause him.

 

[Free]

He doesn't want to risk having his veto overridden and the loss of face that would cause him.

Do leopards eat their own faces?

 

[Khamon]

Do leopards eat their own faces?

These ones do and also joyfully feed their own faces to other leopards.

 

[Free]

We'll all be watching...

 

[Beebo Brink]

Boots on the ground in Iran.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I saw a report earlier that it will be about the 2020 election security, probably setting the stage to muck up the midterms.

 

[Free]

I saw a report earlier that it will be about the 2020 election security, probably setting the stage to muck up the midterms.

Nicolle Wallace makes that point.

 

[Myradyl Muse]

We'll all be watching...

Without glasses or hearing aids in. Just sayin'

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Seth Abramson (@sethabramson)

Evidence has mounted that the supposed “gash” in the Reflecting Pool is... ...tire tracks Trump caused by insisting his many-ton presidential convoy drive on the pool’s fragile surface. Why? He was too lazy to walk. Per his own edict, he must now do 10 years in federal prison.

substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Financial Times: Trump’s plan for Europe is falling apart (Evernote link because paywall)

Trump is alienating even his natural allies, right-wing "patriotic" European political parties.

While he can insult Republican opponents at home and they'll come crawling back, European politicians must answer to their own electorates, not MAGA Republicans in primaries, and he's just so massively unpopular here.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Rampant crime, poverty and weak institutions make Latin America susceptible to Trumpism.

It's baffling why this happens anywhere. Trump is the least likely to solve any of those issues and his rampant corruption will make many of them even worse.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It's baffling why this happens anywhere. Trump is the least likely to solve any of those issues and his rampant corruption will make many of them even worse.

Yes. Similarly, it would appear that the 10 worst US states in which to live are all MAGA strongholds

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

Some states may have low costs and light regulation, but high crime and lack of healthcare are among important factors when people choose where to live.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

People like to be told that there is a simple way to fix things, they don't want to take effort to change things, and they like to find blame in anything but themselves.

Trump offers that certainty and assuages the egos of other fragile males like himself. That's why it's so appealing.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

E Jean Carroll Has Officially Been Paid in Full: The Wire Cleared, the Record Is Permanent. Trump is a Rapist. Forever.

Follow-up to last week’s post. E. Jean Carroll has the money — $5,625,005.48, to the penny. Here’s what the docket entry actually says, what it means, and why this outcome can never be undone.

deanblundell.substack.com

 

[Free]

E Jean Carroll Has Officially Been Paid in Full: The Wire Cleared, the Record Is Permanent. Trump is a Rapist. Forever.

Follow-up to last week’s post. E. Jean Carroll has the money — $5,625,005.48, to the penny. Here’s what the docket entry actually says, what it means, and why this outcome can never be undone.

deanblundell.substack.com

"In full?" Not quite, since Trump still owes Carroll over 83 million from the defamation lawsuit.

 

[Free]

These days we're lucky we 've even heard about it.