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Donald Trump huffed and puffed online after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged him to walk the streets of his state.

The 79-year-old president lashed out on Truth Social on Sunday at Moore’s “nasty and provocative” invitation three days earlier to join him for some light cardio in Baltimore, calling the city a “crime disaster” and threatening to deploy National Guard troops.

Trump was so angry about the public safety walk invitation that he suggested he may pull federal support for rebuilding the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 hours ago

When this fucker finally kicks it, I feel like it's literally going to be the special edition ending of Return of the Jedi in America.

[–] canajac@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The shitheads that voted for this imbecile, moronic, man-child are now going WTF did we do? My medicaid is cut, the groceries are more expensive, my quality of life has not gone up. But my pres is a lot richer than he was 9 months ago.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

Nah, most doubled down and continue to blame dems.

[–] tree_frog_and_rain@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I'd like to see some women Democrats challenge him to other fitness activities.

Considering he bragged that he could beat basically any woman at any sport, because men are just better.

Hit him in his ego and his fragile masculinity.

And hopefully God and a heart attack will do the rest

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

I'm a physically disabled woman and I'd totally beat him in a sport.

[–] Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think at this stage I would prefer something more concrete like a shit ton of snipers all shooting at him simultaneously so we can count on at least one round to do it's job 👍

Im no expert in bullets, but maybe something large calibre and could explode/fragment so would make a nasty mess of what passes for human flesh be in order and do the world a favour 😉

[–] tree_frog_and_rain@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, but that would make him a martyr.

Him keeling over from a heart attack because AOC beat him in a foot race would really drain the swamp of a lot of toxic masculinity.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I am going to risk getting alcohol poisoning in celebration when he finally dies.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 7 points 3 hours ago

Who the fuck cares??? Fuck that fascist pig.

Release the Epstein Files.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 hours ago

"Scream at him Mr. Trump. It's working! There are only 9 out of 10 people still asking about the Epstein files. Last week it was 10 out of 10. The tide is changing, sir! I honestly think you'll get away with all of the heinous shit that you do and did!" (One of Trumps handlers, probably).

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That fat fuck doesn't even walk on the golf course.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago

Which is a little surprising. If he walked his assistants would have more time to place his ball where he meant to hit it instead of where he did.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

He should send NFT Trump, the version of himself that's fit and young and much less orange.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

vindictive man-child running US.

edit: traitor + child-rapist

[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 27 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Vindictive man child-rapist running US.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 6 hours ago

He is the most prolific traitor in American history, worse that ALL the other American traitors COMBINED.

Any list of his negative character traits should START with Traitor.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

The people could have easily not voted for a vindictive man child rapist.

Strange how you have to fight child molesters in some Pizzaria without a basement.

How these richest fascists on earth are somehow going to get rid of the deep state.

Strange how there must be pedo pictures of Trump somewhere in Putins safe, Bibi has some copies too.. Would explain the lap dog behavior.

Strange how somehow it's the Democrats fault and all. MAGA rather fights some problems in fantasyland/narnia than looking at reality. Everything they accused anybody of is done by their people

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 74 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

The first man to bankrupt three casinos will soon be the president who bankrupted the military budget with all these useless deployments.

I hope as a side effect of this nonsense that cops everywhere feel emasculated, knowing that Trump holds them in such little regard that he feels the need to send in the national guard to do their jobs for them.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

bankrupted the military budget

Can't be done. We might dedicate bigger and bigger chunks of our GDP to Military Kensyanism. But our imperial military exists to extract materials and labor to fuel the total economy. It functionally can't go bankrupt.

So long as there are nations we can sack and loot, and workers they can press gang and enslave, all we're doing is driving up domestic retail costs at home to divert surplus to the Big Looting Machine that's powered our nation since inception.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Did he lose money on those bankruptcies or were they a scam?

eg if he borrowed $10m for upgrades but secretly only spent $3m and split the difference with collaborators. Then by declaring bankruptcy the casino doesn't have to pay back the loans.

I am no finance expert so maybe my scenario is far fetched, I dunno.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

His bankruptcies were totally planned from the beginning. Those casinos were Russian money laundering operations, and the entire objective was to suck every drop of profit out of them, run them into the ground, declare bankruptcy, and walk away, sticking everyone else with the bills. And he did it 7 times.

It's not that he's a bad businessman - although he is - he is a virtuosic money launderer.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Those casinos were Russian money laundering operations, and the entire objective was to suck every drop of profit out of them, run them into the ground, declare bankruptcy, and walk away

Sopranos S02E10 has a great example of a Bust Out in practice, as they effectively dismantle a department store from the inside.

This isn't just Trump. It's a business practice prioneered back in the 1980s and repeated successfully for decades.

And while Trump certainly had a lot of Russian mob connections, I believe there's just as much of a relationship with the Tony Salerno and the Genovese family by way of Roy Cohn. Incidentally, the Italian mob was instrumental in cowing migrant workers and breaking nascent union movements across NYC for most of the 20th century. The big crack downs on organized crime didn't happen until the end of the Soviet Union, in the early 90s, when they'd exhausted their usefulness.

Curiously, this is when organized crime in Russia exploded and you began to see a lot of black market organizations working to loot the old Soviet System on behalf of Wall Street.

But up until the late Clinton/Early Bush Era, Trump was more closely associated with the Italian mob.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Guess it depends how you define "bad". In my eyes a good business does well by everyone: staff get well compensated and have a good work environment, customers get a good product at a fair price, suppliers get their invoices paid, owners (if not a coop) get some ROI and their name on the door. Trump has only ever managed 0.5 out of 4, ergo bad businessman.

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think cops will think that way. Instead, they're going to think, "finally, I can do all the fucked up shit that the PC liberal government never let me do. MAGA! Derr!"

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I have a few cops in my extended family and I can guarantee you they love what is happening right now and can't wait for the national guard to be in their backyard.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Fuck, that's dreary.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago

What they really want is a massacre. Expect one soon before the elections.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 26 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The obese buffoon is on the Epstein list because raped children.

Anyways here's a list of his many many hugest most tremendous bankruptcies:
Trump Taj Mahal (1991)
Date: July 1991
Details: ...By 1991, it couldn’t cover its $3 billion debt...

Trump Plaza Hotel (1992)
Date: November 1992
Details: ...amassed over $550 million in debt by 1992...

Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992)
Date: March 1992
Details: ...had $250 million in debt by 1992 after an 80% cash flow drop...

Trump Castle Hotel & Casino (1992)
Date: March 1992
Details: ...struggled with $338 million in bond debt, worsened by competition from the Taj Mahal, his other casino...

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (2004)
Date: October 2004
Details: ...had $1.8 billion in debt.

Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009)
Date: February 2009
Details: ...filed for Chapter 11 with $1.74 billion in debt

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Perhaps he is better at squats or pushups?

Look I like to be judged by my strengths rather than my weaknesses, too.

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[–] f1error@lemmy.world 116 points 17 hours ago
[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 89 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Is anyone else tired of all the “Trump Melts Down About…” and “Trump Rages Over…” articles?

I guarantee you he’s not melting down or raging in the slightest. He owns an entire country. He’s sleeping like a baby.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, they're annoying. More often than not, those titles are invented by the poster.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 hours ago

I am tired of those, and the root cause of that is that I'm tired of Trump.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm just tired of Lemmy being full of nothing but the tiniest Trump news. We get it, USA is a shithole with a dictator. Once in a while an owls sneaks into the feed, and then it's just more Trump.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Absolutely agree.

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