The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Katheryne Helendale]

 

[Noodles]

I call people dumme scheiße sometimes, though I'd imagine with a highly American accent.

I have occasionally used Dummkopf, but only because I picked it up from Neon Genesis Evangelion in the 90s.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I have occasionally used Dummkopf, but only because I picked it up from Neon Genesis Evangelion in the 90s.

It was a common word on Hogan's Heros.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Breaking Trump

It was a week in which you could almost feel the world shudder. But Europe held firm.

iandunt.substack.com

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Should be a gift read:

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Should British Jews flee to America?

A reply to an invitation

davidaaronovitch.substack.com

Free to read, I think

Dear Donald Trump,

I’m told by the Daily Telegraph that your “personal lawyer” (you seem to have so many!), Mr Robert Garson, late of Manchester, England, but now a resident of Florida, has urged you to allow me to come to the US as a refugee, along with all other Britons of Jewish descent.

In the absence of any other decision-making body in the US, it seems it’s up to you whether to add British Jews to white South Africans as the special beneficiaries of your compassion. Some of us might have a few aesthetic problems with that association, but that’s not the reason for my refusing, in advance, this kind suggestion.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't normally post links to podcasts but this 30 minute conversation between Britain's Nick Cohen and the American writer Claire Berlinski is well worth the time. (It would have been even better if Nick Cohen didn't like the sound of his own voice so much but you can't have everything)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

If international conflict is around the corner, it would seem that you really don’t want a narcissist in control of a global power.

www.newyorker.com

Evernote: What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Donald Trump stunned members of his inner circle by calmly predicting when his own body would be lying in state, according to a new report.

The 79-year-old president reportedly made the comment at Mar-a-Lago as television screens showed Jimmy Carter’s casket at the U.S. Capitol, telling the room: “You know, within ten years that will be me.”

The episode adds a morbid twist to how Trump and his team now talk about 2028.

One senior White House official told New York Magazine that “the specter of death sometimes manifests in the 2028 conversation,” describing aides gaming out whether the president will be willing—or able—to mount yet another run when he will be in his early 80s.

At the same time, Trump has leaned into the idea that clinging to the presidency is what keeps him alive.

Trump, 79, Freaked Out Allies With Prediction About When He’ll Die

Donald Trump stunned members of his inner circle by calmly predicting when his own body would be lying in state, according to a new report. The 79-year-old president reportedly made the comment at Mar-a-Lago as television screens showed Jimmy Carter’s casket at the U.S. Capitol, telling the...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Donald Trump stunned members of his inner circle by calmly predicting when his own body would be lying in state, according to a new report.

The 79-year-old president reportedly made the comment at Mar-a-Lago as television screens showed Jimmy Carter’s casket at the U.S. Capitol, telling the room: “You know, within ten years that will be me.”

The episode adds a morbid twist to how Trump and his team now talk about 2028.

One senior White House official told New York Magazine that “the specter of death sometimes manifests in the 2028 conversation,” describing aides gaming out whether the president will be willing—or able—to mount yet another run when he will be in his early 80s.

At the same time, Trump has leaned into the idea that clinging to the presidency is what keeps him alive.

Trump, 79, Freaked Out Allies With Prediction About When He’ll Die

Donald Trump stunned members of his inner circle by calmly predicting when his own body would be lying in state, according to a new report. The 79-year-old president reportedly made the comment at Mar-a-Lago as television screens showed Jimmy Carter’s casket at the U.S. Capitol, telling the...

www.yahoo.com

OMG, POTUS is a drama queen!! WHO KNEW??

There's just no beating that hard-hitting Yahoo journalism.

 

[Isabeau]

He FREAKED OUT allies!

 

[Free]

Does Trump's "inner circle" think he'll never die? Maybe they really are living on hopes and prayers.

 

[Noodles]

At the same time, Trump has leaned into the idea that clinging to the presidency is what keeps him alive.

Yeah, the threat of dying in a fucking jail cell is probably a good motivator.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

He FREAKED OUT allies!

Yeah I don't get this. Don't people normally start talking about death a little more often when they're getting as old as Trump currently is?

 

[Isabeau]

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’

I wonder who bought the one ticket. Any guesses? LMAO

Just one ticket has been sold for the first 3.10pm screening on Friday at its flagship Islington branch in London, while two have been booked for 6pm.

At the time of publication, all seats remained available for the 28 screenings of Melania at the Blackburn, Castleford and Hamilton branches.

 

[Isabeau]

Sea Senor 🇳🇿 (@seassenor.bsky.social)

Probably a poor dyslexic person who thought they were seeing Mamma mia 😂

bsky.app

 

[Casey Pelous]

Yeah I don't get this. Don't people normally start talking about death a little more often when they're getting as old as Trump currently is?

Yeah, that's right. We pretty much talk about our own impending doom. That's the main topic of conversation.

And bowels. Lots and lots of bowels.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I wonder who bought the one ticket. Any guesses? LMAO

It makes sense that someone going to the Melania premiere has no friends.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’

I wonder who bought the one ticket. Any guesses? LMAO

I'm not saying it was Nigel Farage.

But it was Nigel Farage.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’

I wonder who bought the one ticket. Any guesses? LMAO