The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Noodles]

Makes me think of this...

 

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pc93 (@pc93.bsky.social)

Colombia Pres. Petro: "A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's lies from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil. They want to turn the region into another Libya, full of slaves."...

bsky.app

*cough* He's not wrong *cough*

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I lack the knowledge to check this:

There's that Trump business logic:

Trump has failed over 60 businesses. And these included six bankruptcies for many billions of dollars altogether. Trump bankrupted three casinos, which no one thought was even possible at the time, since casinos can “dial in” their profit margins.

Trump has vastly exceeded all American presidents combined in failed businesses, at least 64 and still counting:

Trump Taj Mahal Casino (bankrupt four times)

Trump Castle Casino (bankrupt three times)

Trump Plaza Casino (bankrupt three times, and not only bankrupted, but demolished!)

Trump Plaza Hotel NYC

Trump Indiana Riverboat Casino

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts

Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for the fourth Trump casino-related bankruptcy in 2014. Trump now claims he had “nothing to do with” the company despite it bearing his name and his owning 28% of the stock, which proved worthless in the end.

Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama (the Trump name was removed from the building after numerous Trump lies and shady dealings):

Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama was the first international "named branded development" of The Trump Organization. But it was surrounded by shady dealings:

Donald Trump arranged financing for the project from Bear Stearns: a $230 million bond offering for which he received a $2.2 million commission. During the financing, Ivanka Trump falsely claimed that over 90% of the units had been sold, and that their sale price was five times that of comparable units. She also exaggerated demand for the units, claiming they were selling out even as potential buyers were being offered substantial discounts.

During the development, Donald Trump falsely implied that the Trump Organization had a financial stake in the project and was acting as the developer, neither of which were true.

The hotel opened on July 6, 2011, approximately a year behind schedule. Two months later Fitch Ratings downgraded $220 million in construction bonds from B-sf to CCsf due to "continued uncertainty over the willingness and ability" of buyers to take possession of apartment units.”

The Trump Organization managed the hotel until Cypriot businessman Orestes Fintiklis, who had bought a majority stake in the hotel condominium association, legally ousted them and had the Trump name removed from the building in 2015 and from the hotel in 2018. The hotel was renamed The Bahia Grand Panama until Marriott took over on September 26, 2018. Professional management at last!

In June 2019 Fintiklis accused Trump companies of tax evasion.

The 13-story base is topped by a tower resembling the Burj Al Arab, a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the Jumeirah Group sued over the similarity.

Trump Airlines aka Trump Shuttle

Trump Mortgage was unable to pay its debts, including unpaid taxes. Yes, Trump even failed at his specialty!

Trump Steaks went out of business owing Buckhead Beef $715,000.

Trump Steakhouse was shut down for 51 health code violations, including serving five-month-old duck!

Trump Wine

Trump Vodka

Trump Fire

Trump Power

Trump Pale Ale

Trump Water

Trump Ice

Trumped! was an American daily talk radio program hosted by Donald Trump.

Trump the Game (failed twice)

Trump the Fragrance

The Trump Foundation, a fraudulent “charity,” robbed the poor of charity donations and was shut down by the State of New York.

Trump “University” was shut down as fraudulent after bilking over 5,000 students and Trump was penalized $25 million. Trump staged wealth-building seminars that cost up to $35K. The instructors turned out to be motivational speakers, some with criminal records.

Trump Institute was separate from the fraudulent “university.”

Trump Princess

Tour de Trump

Trump Modeling

TrumpNet was called “the worst idea in the history of the Internet.”

Trump Telecom was a telephone communication company that abandoned its trademark.

Trump Tower Tampa

Trump sold his name to the tower’s developers and received $2 million. The project folded with just $3,500 left in cash. Condo buyers sued Trump for allegedly misleading them. Trump settled and paid as little as $11,115 to buyers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Trump Chicago

Trump Soho

Trump Golf Puerto Rico

Trump Baja Mexico

Trump Atlanta

Trump Charlotte

Trump Fort Lauderdale

Trump Waikiki Hotel

Trump Jupiter

Trump Baku Hotel in Azerbaijan never opened.

Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai never opened.

Trump International Hotel and Tower New Orleans never opened.

Trump Tower Palm Beach

Trump Empire Cologne

Trump Success Cologne

Trump Style

Trump World

Trump Magazine

Trump Travel Agency

Trump Mattresses

goTrump-dot-com

Trump IPO ticker DJT

Trump Vitamins & Urine Test Kits

“Paris is Out” Musical

New Jersey Generals

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in accusations by women of rape, sexual assault and/or other sexual improprieties: 27 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in billion-dollar bankruptcies: 6 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in states with fake electors: 6 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in trials for rape and defamation of a rape victim: 2 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in coup attempts: 1 to zero.

OTHER NOTABLE TRUMP ACHIEVEMENTS

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling women “pigs,” “dogs,” “disgusting animals,” etc.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in calling America’s valiant war dead “suckers” and “losers” for serving their country.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in insulting Gold Star families.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in preferring Russian intelligence to American intelligence.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in praising foreign despots like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in a number of important categories such as accusations of rape and sexual assault, felony convictions, bankruptcies, business failures, etc.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents in lies: more than 30,000 in just four years.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in felony indictments: 91 to zero.

Trump has exceeded all American presidents combined in fraudulent election lawsuits: 62 to zero.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I lack the knowledge to check this:

Looks about right to me. I've heard of most of those failed companies at one time or another, at least in passing, since I became aware of Trump back in the 1980s (when I lived in New York City).

It's the basis for people saying that if Trump had taken all the money his father had given him and just invested it wisely, he would have amassed a far greater fortune than he has (or had, up until he used the presidency as a base for his grifting).

 

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I lack the knowledge to check this:

It may be stretching the truth a little to claim all the listed Trump business dealings are failures.

For example, DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group), the publicly traded company behind Truth Social hasn't failed (yet!). But it's not doing well on NASDAQ and in its latest filing, which for a regular business could be said to be hemorrhaging money, with net loss growing to nearly $55 million, and revenue decreasing (not even earning a million dollars this quarter). They've been pushing their shitcoin holdings around to try and hide some of this, even despite a huge slump in their bitcoin evaluations. And of course his big money (and political) friends continue to shore it up on the market. A failure? Not technically. But failing? Most definitely.

And "Trump Charlotte," which refers to the Trump National Golf Club *in* Charlotte, North Carolina has not failed as far as I know, but it has been investigated for allegations of fraud about it's financial situation. Which tends to be the normal way of operation for Trump businesses.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Promise everything, deliver nothing, absconds with the investments. I can't believe anyone is stupid enough to give him money. Now or in years past.

He's not even as ethical or profitable as a ponzi scene or multi level marketing pyramid. He's an endless pit of suck, a black hole of money that only pretends to give back while taking more.

The only ones doing well in service to his fickle ego, are at the expense of everyone else.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

It's inevitable behavior. The unacceptable behavior is from those that loyally support and enable that stupid fat pig. They're the ones that society needs to shame and berate, not that it would stop those feckless turds either... But it would be something.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It's inevitable behavior. The unacceptable behavior is from those that loyally support and enable that stupid fat pig. They're the ones that society needs to shame and berate, not that it would stop those feckless turds either... But it would be something.

I mean.... this tweet makes it sound like this is anything new from him. This is how he launched his campaign back in 2015. Many of us thought his crude behavior would sink his campaign but his numbers kept going up.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Economist “I love the smell of deportations in the morning” (Evernote link)

The Invitation to join President Donald Trump’s cabinet would have come as a shock if Lexington had not already been honoured with so many generous proposals from the man: to be a White House Adviser, to join the Trump Inner Circle and the Trump Executive Board, and to become a member of the Trump Gold, Diamond and Platinum Clubs along with the Anti-Antifa Club. “J.D. Vance and I were just talking about you,” he emailed one day, with the offer of a seat on the Trump Advisory Board. All the president was asking in return, besides sage counsel, was a donation of as little as $25 to his political action committee (PAC).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What do you do with unlawful orders?

The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told

emptycity.substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case. Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon.


All have one thing in common: they appear to be connected to the Trump family’s campaign to amass riches around the world. Since Donald Trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder. What is less understood – and perhaps even more dangerous – is the damage this is doing everywhere else.

 

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Kash Patel is a complete and utter tool.

Kash Patel humiliated in explosive FBI dossier... and his jacket fury

The internal report, written by an alliance of active-duty and retired agents who railed against Biden's hated DEI policies, described the FBI as 'a rudderless ship' under Patel.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A scathing 115-page report into the state of the FBI under Kash Patel has exposed turmoil and friction as agents turn on him and even Trump administration allies admit he is out of his depth.

The bombshell report, written by an alliance of active-duty and retired agents who railed against former president Joe Biden's DEI policies, described the FBI as 'a rudderless ship' and 'all f**ked up' under Patel.

Barely six months into the job, Patel has already been mired in controversy over his use of a government jet to visit his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, and his astonishing decision to assign a SWAT team to protect her.

A right bastard.

Patel reportedly flew into Provo, Utah, on September 11, the day after the killing, and refused to 'disembark from the plane without an FBI raid jacket.'

He did not have his own and was so concerned about the optics that he pulled Salt Lake City FBI field agents from the investigation and ordered them to find him medium-sized outerwear.

They eventually tracked down one he could wear but it belonged to a female agent.

Patel was reportedly fuming when he received the jacket and erupted when he noticed 'two areas on the upper sleeves did not have Velcro patches attached', and still refused to step off the plane.

Ultimately, 'members of an FBI SWAT Team took patches off their uniforms and ran those patches over' to stop Patel's outburst.

Only then did he disembark the plane, the report claims.

 

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Let's not leave Pete Hegseth out of the tool box.

Franklin the Turtle Becomes an AI Meme After Pete Hegseth Jokes About War Crimes

Even Republicans are calling for an investigation.

gizmodo.com

The Washington Post released a damning report over the holiday weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been ordering the military to commit war crimes in the Caribbean. Hegseth responded by posting to X what appeared to be an AI-generated meme of the children’s book character Franklin shooting at people in boats. And now AI-generated Franklins have swamped social media, and they’re coming from both sides of the political aisle.

“For your Christmas wish list…” Hegseth wrote on X, with an image that showed the Franklin character firing from a helicopter at people in boats down below.

 

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[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Stuff Trump will never sell:

 

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I dunno. The AI makes him look pretty healthy, and he needs to look that right now

 

[detrius]

Let's not leave Pete Hegseth out of the tool box.

Franklin the Turtle Becomes an AI Meme After Pete Hegseth Jokes About War Crimes

Even Republicans are calling for an investigation.

gizmodo.com

There's still zero evidence that those weren't anything but ordinary fishermen, btw.

 

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There's still zero evidence that those weren't anything but ordinary fishermen, btw.

There's zero evidence they weren't extraterrestrials intent on invading Earth. Basically, there's zero evidence, and this administration is not going to provide it.

 

[Free]

*sigh*