The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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What was the context of him saying fuck anyway?
Trump swears in outburst at Israel and Iran over ceasefire violations – video
Donald Trump said that Israel had to 'calm down' after it and Iran violated a ceasefire he tried to broker. 'Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen,' he said. 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing'
 
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It's almost sad that I agree, but more in the context of the whole "I can't support Harris because she is not condemning Israel. "

This whole area has basically just been fighting forever over holy cities.
 
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It's almost sad that I agree, but more in the context of the whole "I can't support Harris because she is not condemning Israel. "
I assume you're aware Trump won. Like, months and months back. But hey, keep on fighting the last fight.
 

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At 24th and 25th of June was a major NATO summit in Den Hague, Netherlands. Did you notice it, was it covered by press in the states?

If not, probably because it went so... smoothly. All tried to appease Trump and to prevent him becoming angry. So as a result it turned into a big circle jerk of ass licking Trump's privileged butt.

All countries gave in to Trump's constant bullying by agreeing to invest 5% of the national GDP up to 2035. A number, which Trump just made up by rolling dice probably.

Just for reference: for Germany, which agreed to this target, this would skyrocket the military budget from around 90 bn. Euros to 215 bn. Euros. This is about 42% of the yearly federal budget at the moment. This going to be funny, this will be a massive arms build-up of Germany, which most neighbors now will do approve.

Only Spain dared to deviate, so Trump theatened it with tariffs.

Probably it's a good time to rearm, and then throw the US out of NATO. Such behaviour is unacceptable.

NATO attorney Mark Rutte then sent a slimy, subservient and embarassing SMS to Trump, which Trump published, here it is:



 

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That SMS almost reads like Trump wrote it.
It's just missing the part where the other countries all come to him with tears in their eyes, begging, "Please, sir, please let us do what you want us to do."
 

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It sounds like everything is going swimmingly in Washington, DC.

Gabbard Dropped From Intelligence Briefing as Trump Rages Over Leak (archive.today)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is notably absent from a major intelligence briefing with the Senate on Thursday.

Gabbard’s sidelining comes shortly after President Donald Trump bluntly said that her testimony from March, when she asserted Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, was “wrong.” It also comes amid a damning intelligence leak that weakened the White House’s claims regarding the effectiveness of Trump’s strike on Iran.
“I don’t care what [Gabbard] said,” Trump said aboard Air Force One last week. “I think they were very close to having one.”
If Trump thinks it, than it's thought.
 

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Link to Ha'aretz

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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday dramatically expanded his attacks on the State of Israel over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing criminal corruption trial, implicitly warning that the $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military assistance to Israel may be compromised unless the charges are dismissed.

While Trump's Truth Social post earlier this week marked an unprecedented intervention from a U.S. president into a foreign democratic ally's judicial proceedings, his broaching of U.S. military aid – long considered an "unbreakable" tenet of the bilateral relationship – brings his criticism into truly uncharted waters.
Not sure if he's -- understandably enough -- doubly opposed to the idea that his friends and heads of government should be subject to the criminal law, or if someone has explained to him that Netanyahu is using Gaza as distraction from his domestic legal problems but, as Ha'artz says, by threatening to withhold US military aid to Israel, he's inadvertently opened up the possibility of this, or more likely a subsequent, US administration withholding aid to Israel for other, less corrupt, reasons too.