'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: report

He has two options: 1) Stop doing stupid shit, or 2) Destroy the media, replace it with propaganda outlets.
Guess which one he'll do.
- You forgot #3, do something else crazy to try and distract from this failure. But #2 is definitely in the cards as well.
  
  #2 is happening, but it's too hard for Trump - fortunately for him there are people with their own agendas to do it for him. #3 is his only move because he can't conceive of a better strategy.

Oh, to be a ketchup stain on the wall...
- It's probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.
  
  100%
  And Hitler was known for sharing the contents of his bowels.

The fact that McHitler hasn't stroked out by now is all the proof I really need to say that there is no god directing all this shit.
- Around 13,000 children under the age of 5 die every day. I’d love to see god explain that lol
  
  Lucifer: I'm not in the business of murdering innocent children. That's God's jurisdiction.
  The Devil's Carnival
  
  "I work in mysterious ways."
  God (probably)
  
  "We didn't start the fire. It's always been burning since the world's been turning..."
  God: "No, yeah, that was me. I started it. Flicked over the first domino. Still watching the picture unfold. Quite the sight, wish you could see it."
- Been thinking about that myself, with my shitty religious upbringing. This is what god wants. And, if you're Jewish and you've at least heard the phrase "god's chosen people," I just wonder how you square that with one of the worst people to live having killed 6 million of them. God was really looking out for the chosen people that day, let me tell ya...
  
  My ex, who is Jewish, told me "chosen" is more like "singled out."
- My dad is 60 and has had a stroke in Janurary. He's far from perfect, but he's been a good role model for me, made me a better person, and helped me when I realized my mom was more insane each passing day.
  This fucker is the oldest president, looks worse than his age, is angry 24/7, and hasn't had one.
  Life is a cruel joke.
- God realized they fucked up with all us uppity hyper-hierarchical monkeys and is going for a hard reset, or never existed. Change my mind.
  
  If god, in the christian, all-knowing and all-powerful sense even exists, she must fucking hate us, because she allowed Drumf to happen. I could never venerate a god who is that callous and spiteful.
- Maybe who you think god is is all wrong? Maybe it's the other guy or girl or it who's really in charge.
- Unless Trump is the antichrist, then God intended for it to happen.
  
  hes a low-level demon escaped from hell, anti-christ would have been able to warp reality one of the key feature of its powers
- Maybe God isnt all powerful and is forced to watch all she made kill itself over and over in ever more savage ways.
  
  God realized how badly She fucked up and died of Chrstian pity.
- The only justice in this world is the justice we make.

And the media is playing softball with him. This is the media not calling him out on all his bullshit.
- Exactly. If we actually had a real oppositional "liberal media", they'd be tearing this asshat a new one for his dumbfuckery.
- The owners of the media are not on our side.
  
  But Trump is starting to hurt their treasure hordes.
- I thought he would’ve been impeached by now. I am a bit surprised he hasn’t been.
  
  By the Republicans? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
  
  Well he has been twice so they tried I guess.

The orange cunt would have an aneurysm if only the "Press" actually treated him fairly. Instead they sane wash his bullshit, and tiptoe around him without ever using the words "Liar", "convicted felon" or "rapist"..... The press have never treated anyone so favorably, and still he whines and cries like a stuck little pig. He gets $1 billion free publicity every single day. Fuck him with a cactus. No lube ! Edit: And fuck the press! They are responsible for Drumpf!
- Leave the poor cactus out of this. This is why man invented angle grinders.
  
  What about providing him gympie-gympie toilet paper?
  D. moroides is notorious for its extremely painful sting which may leave victims suffering for weeks or even months. It is reputed to be the most venomous plant in Australia, if not the world.
  ...
  The trichomes stay in the skin for up to a year, and release the toxin cocktail into the body during triggering events such as touching the affected area, contact with water, or temperature changes.
  
  Mea culpa! I bow to the almighty angle grinders!
  
  a cholla cactus.
- MSM heavily benefited from trump being center of attention, and most of them are owned by conservatives anyways. just like fb, youtube, reddit right wing gaffes drives traffic.
  
  Time to make their actions criminal imo, although that is just a pipedream currently. They are all traitors.

Who knew that hiring people based on how much they suck up to you would mean that everyone on your team (including yourself) is incompetent?
- It seemed like a good idea at the time.
  I mean, it's worked for him in the private sector. Didn't scale up.
- He also seemingly selected some of them by watching what they did on the TeeVee. I guess he thought that's pretty much how HE got there, since he had that stupid game show, so....

His attempts to end wars in Gaza and Ukraine have faltered?
What plans? He's not even tried to do either one in even a meaningless, symbolic way.
- I'm so fucking tired of the incessant sane-washing. Just constant gaslighting from all sides to make me feel crazy for freaking out about this shit. I'm sick of it
- For real, what a braindead (at best) thing to say. His attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestine and build resorts on the coast, and his attempts to steal mineral wealth from Ukraine while under brutal attack by Russia, those attempts have faltered? Yeah, thankfully they have, I'm sure he's still trying though.
  I'm so tired of all the "reasonable language" used for this administration. It just amounts to flat out lying to avoid upsetting the very worst fucking people. Again - at best - that's me being charitable, there are even worse motivations than that of course.
  
  his son-in law of his daughter he lusts, kushner has planned real estate there too.
- Be fair. He tried nothing and is all out of ideas.
- Well he did yell at Zelensky?
- His plan was to pressure them the way he’s used to pressuring people in his business dealings. The only problem is that countries like Ukraine aren’t just businesses that he can stiff, drag to court, etc.
- His attempt was a concept of a plan.
- His plans were to reward the aggressors and try to grab a piece of the carcass from the other vultures.

I'm supposing this dumbfuck really thought he was going to get praise for this?
The problem is that he's been safely ensconced in a bubble his entire fucking life. He's Patient Zero when it comes to rich white failsons failing upwards, FFS.
- He thought he could make more fake deals and get good press, but the nihilist tech bro backed death cult had other ideas.
- yeah some progressive senator/rep was saying this was actually 10d chess on trump's part to extract concessions from industries in exchange for tariff relief, and, maybe, but also, you know, there is the other explanation
  
  this was actually 10d chess on trump’s part to extract concessions
  It’s called a shakedown. Instead of actually talking to someone, start by threatening them then extract concessions. Best deal maker ever
  
  If, by "concessions," they meant bribes, that might be true.

He is surprised that he's getting bad press. That's how stupid Trump is. Not only does he think the things he's doing are good ideas, he legitimately thinks people will actually praise him for doing it.
- Once he sees not everyone will he'll start censoring those who don't. He's fixated on getting things done his way regardless of how it affects anyone else.

It will end up like brexit. Most people who voted for him will stay in the sect no matter what. When enough people finally switch to hand power back to the democrats it will be too late to simply reverse most of what Trump did and slow rebuilding will start. If Democrats elect competent leaders they will actually fix things. If not they will just continue working with what Trump left for them (like with Starmer)
- and slow rebuilding will start.
  And then Democratic voters will get complacent, or get all pissy about how their pet project for change isn't getting enough attention fast enough, and not vote the next time leading to a Republican getting back in office BECAUSE SURELY THAT WILL HELP THEIR FUCKING PRECIOUS INTERESTS. It worked out so~ well this past Fall, didn't it? Nothing at all~ to be concerned about, worried about, uncertain about, or terrified about now.
  If Democrats elect competent leaders
  Pelosi and Schumer, and all their fanbois (people listening to them even when they aren't in office), would need to go.
- Brexit is like herpes. It just keeps on giving.

This is just how he is. He did the same in his first term. If you took away anger and resentment, he wouldn't have a lot else left in his life.
- I also love how he ran as a reformer candidate, as if we didn't have 4 years of evidence of him accomplishing nothing of value for his voters. Social media and 24/7 news have given us all goldfish memories.
  
  It breaks my brain that people voted for him to help the economy. Without even getting into how bad conservatives are for the economy, Trump's first term had crazy high inflation, job loss, and economic crashes. Why would his second term miraculously be the solution to fixing the problems he started?
- he wouldn't have a lot else left in his life.
  He would still have his diapers.

That put a smile on my face, thanks :)

Trump doesn't have friends; he has lackeys and people who want to gain something by getting in his favor. Others follow and agree with him out of fear of retaliation.

How does this old ass dude have so much goddamn energy? I am in my PRIME and I need naps.
- Stimulants. Where do you think Jr. gets it from?
  
  How do I get some and what are they called? 🤣
- It's not like he really does anything except golfs, eats McDonald's, possibly gropes or sexually assaults young girls (some habits are hard to break - grab them by the pussy right?). He doesn't read, doesn't think - he basically signs whatever heritage foundation and his rich friends put in front of him to sign.
  
  https://trumpgolftrack.com/
  
  For all the time he spends golfing, it's amazing how bad he is at it.
- Hate.
- Drugs. Adderall, mostly.

Will no one rid us of this turbulent moron?
- Time will. Just not soon enough.
  
  Nobody knows with certainty how long anyone will live.

"friends" 🤣

Trump has friends?
- Genuinely something I've wondered about for a while. I guess he's got some regular golf competitors? As long as he wins tremendously
- I'd imagine he thinks that other evil rich people and sycophants whose immoral compasses are aligned are his friends, but in reality they're around because it benefits them (or they think it does), and they'd stab him in the back as soon as it benefits them. (It's just that so far it hasn't benefited their morally corrupt causes yet.) So people like the deceased Epstein, and Canadian traitors Kevin O'Leary and Gretzky. AB Premier Danielle Smith wouldn't even be an afterthought of a "friend" in this context, but she's trying so desperately hard to be accepted, it's pathetic.

Thing is, he's not doing anything. He's just riding the train. He doesn't understand or care about the stuff the people around him are doing. He believed them when they said it would make him beloved.
He's just an idiot snake oil salesman.

I mean.. Why doesnt he just stop doing things that give him bad press.
- If he were smart enough to do that, he probably wouldn't have bankrupted a casino twenty years ago.
  
  Four casinos, depending on how you count his six bankruptcies.
- I can think of one thing he could do that would get him lots of good press, but it's typically a TOS violation.
  
  It's probably a TOS against something he signed after taking elon's money but firing Elon would be a really good first start
  
  Rhymes with mooicide?
- Narcissistic psychopaths gonna narcissistic psychopath.

After reading the article I found it quite amusing the fact he is disappointed his allies have not supported him
That’s how the rest of the world feels
- It's surprising how few supporters you get when they aren't allowed to criticise you in any way
- Especially since in his case “support” means unconditional loyalty and subservience.

Carry on with the negative press about the fucking neo-Nazi filled GOP. Fuck them.

The only hope I have is a coup.
Impeachment isn't enough
- French style coup
  
  Beaucoup de coupes

Trump blames everyone but Trump.
Take direction from a rapist and you’re bound to get raped.
America; The world will happily move along without you.
Enjoy your reduced airfares to the beautiful Russian city of Siberia in one of Trumps own resorts.
Wonder in amazement on your tour of the potash fields in Belarus as you get a komplimentary Putin Tramp stamp across your backside.

Let the fucker rage. Get that blood pressure up ... one can only hope for a heart attack.
- A stroke would be better. Just enough that he can't talk, but still understands enough to see it all ebbing away.
  
  It would be!
  I despise this man so much that I went through the logistics of how I could piss on his grave in the future. It involved bottling the piss and wearing a MAGA hat to get close if needed. I'm embarrassed about how petty I am, but there it is.
- his blood is mostly DIET COKE anyways.

Trump has friends?
- Trump has any sense of reality?

What negative press? His supporters are all in. They're brigading every online message board and spamming about how this is great for the country.
- Those are bots. The majority of MAGA supporters probably don't even remember their account passwords.
  
  I wish I could believe this. I've made the mistake of engaging with them on MSN and it's a full blown Jonestown style cult. They are ready to lose everything for Trump.
  
  “I TOLD YOU I DON’T HAVE A PASSWORD”
  
  Never underestimate your opponents. Far better to overestimate.

What fucking "friends" does this guy have?
- People who find him useful.
- He might not have any friends, but there are probably a few people that consider him a useful idiot...

"Friends": people who agree with whatever you say and laugh at you after the call?

And to anyone who has eyes to see with, the press is largely sanewashing Trump and toadying to his imbeclic destructiveness.
- Wouldn't be wild to say that there's some dementia and cognitive decline going on with Trump. I'm not saying this as a joke or insult, the guy is seriously behaving randomly and people around his are too scared to disagree.
  
  It wouldn't be wild, it'd be accurate. The man has dementia. I'm on mobile and not inclined to tap out all of the indicators, but remember when he abruptly stopped speaking at a campaign rally, and just kind of swayed to his music playlist for 39 minutes, or when he described in detail the literal, giant faucet in British Columbia that he seemed to think that Canada uses to control water to the West Coast? (Or the literal dome over Israel?) Both losing track of time and losing the ability to process metaphorical speech are symptoms of dementia. Why else would his doctors have administered that cognitive test that he bragged that he aced?
  
  It's definitely possible. We may just be seeing his true self more though
  
  Like when no one wants to take Grandpa's car keys.
- That's how Fascism works.

- Spez isn't here to ban you for "promoting violence"

Link to full article from the Atlantic - Raw Story's version is just a summary.

I can tell this is fake news because it implies trump has friends.

The voices in his dementia-addled brain don't count as "friends".

What are the chances of him being booted out via 25th Amendment in the next six months?
It might buy JD just enough time to prevent the Republicans being utterly wiped out in the mid-terms...
- I will now gaze wistfully into the near distance and contemplate life under the more competent evil.
  
  More competent but significantly less likeable for the bade. Trump slides by with what passes as charisma to stupid people, but vance is such a bitch that I can't imagine them rallying around him.
  
  I'm not sure he's much more competent, especially when it comes to successfully undoing the damage just enough to keep the GOP in power, by the skin of their teeth, whilst still grifting everything that isn't welded down.
  That, and he doesn't and likely will never have the cult of personality.
  I'd wager that once he who shall not be named is removed from office, the rest of the party will implode into a self-interested factional civil war.
- What are the chances of him being booted out via 25th Amendment in the next six months?
  Almost nil. They don't have the votes unless the Dems are even more supine than they already are. If the VP and come cabinet members declare him unfit, Trump can oppose that by writing a letter saying that no, he's OK. Then it takes 2/3 majority in both houses to remove him. He'd have to be comatose or non-verbally gaga in order for the 25th to be triggered, at least according to the intent of the amendment.

"Everything is everyone else's fault! Why can't everyone see that my way is better for me and my interests?!?!?!"
Sorry donnie, we do see it.

What the fuck did the idiot THINK was going to happen?
- He doesn't "think". Ever.

All he has to do is not drive the car off the cliff but noooooo

"friends" you keep using this word but I'm not sure you know what it means.
People close to him have stated they loathe him. What they love is money and power. Nobody that knows him truly cares about him.

"If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right."
Trump needs to try the opposite.
- Would be hilarious to see him pull a 180 on everything.
  
  He'd still fuck it up. He's a mooncalf, incapable of doing right. The pixies stole Ma and Paw Trump's baby and replaced it with a misshapen golem in vaguely human form.

not according to putin, its working as intended.

How dare they report facts! The facts are out to get me! They never favor my decisions!

I'm not American but, from what I've seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.
Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.

Running America like one of his businesses.

oh sure...it's a 'press' problem
can only shine a pile of shit for only so long, Donald.

All he must do is explain the logic behind the decision using real economic concepts and theories. We're all keenly aware of why he isn't doing that.

This is going to be an even more interesting time in the coming weeks. When animals are cornered, things get very ugly. And we're beyond ugly already with almost half of Project 2025 implemented already.

attempts to end wars in Gaza
huh?
- He probably told Netanyahu to please stop it, it's hurting my PR now, and was shocked when he said no
  
  Yes, unironically.
  For those not aware:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire
  Sabotaging peace deals on conflicts that are causing Democrats grief is a standard Republican play.
  https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461/
  https://newrepublic.com/article/172324/its-settled-reagan-campaign-delayed-release-iranian-hostages
  Trump very clearly though it was his turn to play rat-fucking war criminal, but he doesn't understand that every other leader thinks he's a joke.

Next step the Dipshit-in-chief will start saying bad-mouthing him and the gov is a criminal offense. I mean, they're already giving out felonies over vandalizing Tesla's...
Literal Nazis.

Fred Trump's dementia is the gift he gave his son Donald and the American people. Seriously outside of a couple people that whole family is a net drain on humanity

Maybe everybody is just tired from all the winning?

"Friends"

Obviously nonsense. He doesn't have any friends.

He had so many ways of consolidating his grasp on his realm without looking like a total buffoon. That alone gives me hope.
- The one thing that might save us is the MAGA obsession with forcing their virtuosic incompetence on everything and everyone. Their inevitable failure is built into their system.
  Meanwhile, anyone with competence and experience is now playing for the opposing team, so if the Dems can manage to regain power, they will have a deep bench to draw from.
  
  A very Fisherian / žižekian critique. Aptly said.

I love how people are upset that the democrats aren't doing anything.
First they have minorities in the house and senate and don't have the presidency so their powers are severely limited but also why stop MAGA when they're fucking up this badly?
- but also why stop MAGA when they're fucking up this badly?
  Hey imagine if you had a baby inside you, and then something catastrophic happened and the failed pregnancy now was threatening your life.
  Now imagine you heard someone saying some dumb shit like you are now saying while you were wondering if your doctor was going to be able to operate on you before it was too late as you sit waiting to get close enough to death to be saved...
  Now imagine the Democrats over decades and decades pretending like they were going to fight to stop this kind of insane cruelty towards women, raised countless amounts of money on that narrative, and then proceeded to do next to NOTHING to stop the overturning of Roe V. Wade, to put the brakes on ths descent into fascism at all?
  Now shut the fuck up.
  You can do this thought experiment from the perspective of an immigrant who has watched the Democratic party totally adopt a rightwing framing on immigration and lean into dehumanizing immigrants, but they would talk about it in a nicer way..... (I mean look at Biden's record on immigration, it is downright conservative).... and imagine right now you hear someone saying something like you just did as the entire country collapses into a crisis over whether immigrants should be treated like human beings or not.
  The place to fight was to never accept these horrendous framings that are so twisted they are violent threats to our loved ones and the people that make up our communities, shame on you for having the smallness of vision to see how badly the Democrats failed and are failing to meet this moment by and large.
  No, there is so much more they could have done and they could be doing, and many of them aren't because they are actually fine with this along with every damn Republican.
  
  I voted Harris not Trump or not voting at all.
  I think your anger is misplaced.
- Because they don't only fuck maga they fuck the world and it will take years to build the unfucking back
- Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
  90% of them just roll over because they love power more than standing up for what’s right.
  
  Just because the Republicans are awful doesn’t excuse the Democratic party for being completely ineffective captured opposition.
  If this was on every post they'd downvote until you get banned. They hate any criticism because the other guy is worse. Even when they agree on the same goals, just slightly different methods.
  EDIT: Love when they prove my point for me ❤️
- True Leaders would be out on the streets, galvanizing a scared, angry but rudderless public......
  
  Like Bernie, AOC are. But that's too much work, they gotta vote yes on what Trump wants and ship more weapons to Israel!
  
  They are. How many have you attended? Walz has been doing a bunch of events. Corey Booker spoke for over 24 hours on the senate floor. AOC and Bernie are having tons of meetings.
  You could organize one yourself.
- I think the sentiment is that, by allowing the administration to continue making blunders, they are helping the democratic party in the long-term, but people are being hurt in the short-term.
  I understand that their hands are tied, but a large swath of the public is furious and want their fury to be echoed by their representatives.
  All that said, you could say pretty much the same thing happened from the maga pov back in 2012, and that's how we got into this mess.
  
  This works in a functioning society where court orders are followed, laws are followed, institutions aren't gutted and the executive isn't seizing control of elections. Sure in normal times let them hang themselves.
  But this time is different. Even if the maga cult turns, they actually aren't affected by bad policy, blunders, unconstitutionality, economy, polling ... They're in and they're in for life unless they're removed by force