The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Innula Zenovka]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/trump-fine-arts-commission-firings

Presumably in case they get any ideas about the Arc de Trump and the Emperor's new ballroom.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The triumph of bullshit

Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

www.publicnotice.co

 

[Isabeau]

U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative

One witness said Hoekstra appeared to be upset about the anti-tariff ad that the province recently ran on television in the U.S., which has infuriated President Donald Trump. The witness said Hoesktra could be heard using the F-word and also mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford by name.

 

[Free]

No ‘path’ for a third Trump term, Mike Johnson says

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he’s spoken with President Donald Trump about the possibility he might seek a third term but said he doesn’t “see the path” for such a move.

Asked about Trump floating a third term, which is barred under the Constitution, Johnson replied, “Well, there’s the 22nd Amendment.”

“It’s been a great run, but I think the president knows, and he and I’ve talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution,” Johnson told reporters at a Tuesday news conference.

Well, I guess that's settled.

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*cough*

 

[Free]

I thought "Ford" was the f word.

You can have more than one f word.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The one-way constitution

29th October 2025 Some say Trump and his circle are disregarding the constitution – but that is only half right We have a tendency to think in binaries – and this is certainly true abou…

davidallengreen.com

 

[Cindy Claveau]

The American Beaverhound

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump Attempts Indian Accent on Asia Tour

 

[Noodles]

Trump Attempts Indian Accent on Asia Tour

Dude sounds like death.

Also WTF is he on about?

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Dude sounds like death.

Also WTF is he on about?

By now, the most important lesson to draw from that is that he is still breathing.

Some how.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Also WTF is he on about?

I believe it was, "I SAID A THING AND IT WAS THE CLEVEREST THING ANYBODY EVER SAID. NOBEL PRIZE! FORIGNURS TALK FUNNY! WHO'S A GOOD BOY? ME!"

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I believe it was, "I SAID A THING AND IT WAS THE CLEVEREST THING ANYBODY EVER SAID. NOBEL PRIZE! FORIGNURS TALK FUNNY! WHO'S A GOOD BOY? ME!"

Nailed it!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author Wole Soyinka says his US visa was revoked

Soyinka, who has taught in the US and previously held a green card, joked on Tuesday that his green card “had an accident” eight years ago and “fell between a pair of scissors.” In 2017, he destroyed his green card in protest of Trump’s first inauguration.

The letter he received informing him of his visa revocation cites “additional information became available after the visa was issued,” as the reason for its revocation, but does not describe what that information was.

Soyinka believes it may be because he recently referred to Trump as a “white version of Idi Amin,” a reference to the dictator who ruled Uganda from 1971 until 1979.

 

[Free]

Trump confirms recent MRI but declines to give reason why

One very possible reason:

Role of MRIs in Detecting Alzheimer's | Envision Radiology

Discover how MRIs can be used to see how the brain is functioning and help diagnose Alzheimer's Disease.

www.envrad.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off

To those of us who grew up outside the US and witnessed Reagan’s presidency from afar, he often seemed at best a fairly preposterous leader. But in the years since his death, in the US Reagan has come to stand for unimpeachable political authority – and not just on the right – an American icon on a par with John Wayne and a symbol of the soul of the Republican party. At the end of the Ontario ad, a clip of Reagan recording the address shows him wearing a plaid cowboy shirt, and looking rugged and authentic.

There is almost no point of comparison for Trump as far as this image is concerned. Burnished by exactly the nostalgia Trump has leveraged for his own political gain, Reagan’s words and image in that ad pitch the current president’s emptied-out, shiny-suited, barely Republican Maga movement against Reagan’s “Morning in America again” original – or at least against the modern spin on the original that has so much power today.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Economist: History offers warnings to leaders who renovate official buildings (Evernote)

In August the president signed an executive order prescribing “classical architecture” as the official state aesthetic. Whatever eventually rises from the pile of rubble beside the south lawn, it will be a pastiche of pastiche: “Caesar’s Palace meets the Palace of Versailles,” predicted CNN.

When political leaders summon the architects and interior designers, they also invite pomposity over the threshold. In the 1660s Louis XIV decided to give a glow-up to a hunting lodge outside Paris, for which his subjects received a bill for 100m livres tournois (probably around $2.6bn in today’s money) and an immense, glittering metaphor for inequality (see picture). The conclusion to this story—involving a basket, the head of his great-great-great-grandson, and a lot of cheering—has not managed to deter more recent leaders.

 

[Casey Pelous]

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Trump confirms recent MRI but declines to give reason why

One very possible reason:

Role of MRIs in Detecting Alzheimer's | Envision Radiology

Discover how MRIs can be used to see how the brain is functioning and help diagnose Alzheimer's Disease.

www.envrad.com

Meh.

I saw a doc hypothesizing that it wasn't even an MRI but a CT scan, because Trump described it with something like, "You know, they have this machine ..." and moved his hand back and forth.

CT scanners move you in and out of the machine as they scan. MRI's just slide you into the "doughnut" then leave you there, usually for quite some time (like, a half-hour or so. They give you headphones with bad music but good sound isolation, 'cause those things are LOUD.) I happen to have had one of each recently, and they do look a lot alike. Besides, a reporter asked him if he "got an MRI" so, of course, he picked up on that. Needless to say, he wouldn't know an MRI from a BMW, so, who knows? He may have had nothing at all and just thought "having an MRI" made him a super-winner, a much bigger winner than Biden, who probably never had an MRI. Corn flakes!

Had I stuck around for the doc's speculation on why he would be getting a CT scan vs. an MRI, I'd have some groundless speculation to share with you. My apologies for my indolence in this endeavor.

 

[Free]

I saw a doc hypothesizing that it wasn't even an MRI but a CT scan, because Trump described it with something like, "You know, they have this machine ..." and moved his hand back and forth.

All you need to know about brain scans and dementia - Alzheimer's Research UK

CT, MRI, fMRI, EEG and SPECT are all ways that doctors and scientists image the brain, but what do these letters mean, how do they work, and what do they show?

www.alzheimersresearchuk.org

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Coming next: American nuclear weapons tests. Also Trump is again delusional, because Russia has more nuclear arms.

The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office. Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555

 

[detrius]

Coming next: American nuclear weapons tests. Also Trump is again delusional, because Russia has more nuclear arms.

The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office. Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555

The insane ramblings of a madman with a mushroom-shaped penis.