Just one fuckup after another

[LuFins Dad]

Maybe tomorrow he’ll announce this has all been a big April Fool’s Prank?

[NobodySock]

Don't think for a second that he has plans of willingly leaving the Oval office ever. He knows his criminality and treason. He knows the second he steps down, he's toast. His only true option is to rig the next election for JD. For which JD will pardon the poofer. If he were a smart man, and he is not, he would treat this term in a 180 polar opposite direction of engratiating himself to all. To be benevolent, to actual do the work of the American people. Then, just maybe, JD might have a shot in 2028. As it is, GOP has no chance of reelection.

[Jolly]

Geez, what a bunch of hair-trigger reactionaries. That's just Trump being Trump. He's patting himself on the back for his successful start to this term

The fourth term statement? I told y'all Trump believes he was cheated in the 2020 election, as do millions of Americans.

And Trump isn't running for a third term, so y'all can get your panties out of a wad. He knows that the only way to run is to repeal the 22nd, and that's not happening. Besides, I think he knows how old he would be.

I don't know why he decided to wade into the question, other than he tends to answer most questions, unlike the previous administration. Plus, for good or bad, he likes to control the news cycle.

[Mik]

I think you miss my point. No, I don't believe he is serious about a third term. I do think what a president says matters though, and this talk just plays into so many people's worst fears about him. It's jerking Americans around and it's irresponsible. The people that did not vote for him are not the enemy.

[Jolly]

With Trump, you separate the wheat from the chaff and watch what he actually does. Don't get caught up in the light show.

Some things I think he's committed to:

1. A continuation of the tax cuts from his first term.
2. Cutting the size of the government.
3. Reformation of the DOJ.
4. Border security.
5. An end to the Ukraine War.
6. Tariffs, as a spur to manufacturing and middle-class jobs
7. A return to the original Title IX, with gender defined at birth.
8. A revitalization of the military ethos.

[Mik]

I agree with the policies by and large, but he could be a much better leader with more judicious communication.

[jodi]

Except that he can’t, that’s not who he is. We know that already.

[Horace]

He tacked on an "I'm not joking" after he said there are ways to serve another term.

The most charitable explanation is that he's trolling, but anybody who wants to attempt any good faith support of the man is then put in a position to be part of his troll.

[Renauda]

@Jolly

Geez, what a bunch of hair-trigger reactionaries..

There isn’t a bunch. Only two reactionaries on this forum and of those two, you are the grand wizard.

[Jolly]

@Horace said in Just one fuckup after another:

He tacked on an "I'm not joking" after he said there are ways to serve another term.

The most charitable explanation is that he's trolling, but anybody who wants to attempt any good faith support of the man is then put in a position to be part of his troll.

I don't have a problem with him trolling. Anybody who follows Trump knows that's what he's doing.

There is a way for him to serve another term. He may even explore the possibility, but at the end of the day, it ain't happening.

Yet, here we are, tied into knots over the nonexistent. And we quit talking about Signal, every other breath.

[Mik]

I never did talk about SIgnal. Not one word. But at least that fuckup was in the course of a legitimate government function.

[Jolly]

You may not have talked about it, but the East Coast press was cutting daily cartwheels over it.

Not now.

[Mik]

Yes, and we haven't heard the last of it, even if it isn't the headline today.

[Jolly]

Russia! Russia!.........

[Mik]

Well, you know they had to get Russia in there somehow.