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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 38 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm generally annoyed the headline is the least important part of the whole ramble.

Also:

"Trump’s Cabinet couldn’t get enough of their leader. Each member took turns to outdo one another with compliments.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer took the prize, proudly boasting of unfurling a massive banner on the side of her department’s headquarters featuring the president’s face.

“Mr. President,” she fawned. “I invite you to see your big, beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker.”

We're in a real good time and place right now aren't we...

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

So did South park predict the future with everybody congratulating him and telling him his dick wasn’t small?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago

And JD Vance applying lube to satan's butthole.

plausible.

[–] chaonaut@lemmy.4d2.org 7 points 16 hours ago

What talking about predict? That was a weekly staple of his first term.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

....no. they made fun of cliche dictator sycophantic fawning that was already happening last term. In the past.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Unequivocally, yes.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

She means the department of plenty

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago

The ass-kissing is embarrassing. These people must be dead inside.

She looks like an evil old version of Anya Taylor Joy

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans are patiently waiting for him to die.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

So are the rest of us

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

prolly get stuck with don jr running

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This kinda confirms some opinions I have about MAGA women. They are chosen maybe not for looks only, but it's definitely a factor. Like waitresses.

Also, the Daily Beast seems to be the most suitable outlet for summing up Trump speeches these days.

And he offered an awkward explanation of artificial intelligence as he lauded his wife, Melania, for announcing Tuesday a new AI initiative for children.

“This is the new internet, the new computer, the new television, the new everything all put together in one,” he said.

(...)

“The line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime,” he said. “So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’ But I’m not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime.”

Trump held up an image of a data center being built by Zuckerberg’s Meta company, superimposed over Manhattan, to show its size.

“These are big things,” he said. “And they’re going up, a lot of them, are going up now. I don’t know that big.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I swear to god he’s gotten dumber since the first term.

Did he hit his head during that assassination stunt? Is his brain 90% Alzheimer’s plaque? He’s never had coherent sentences, but he used to ramble for ages, now it’s just one liners.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He’s never had coherent sentences, but he used to ramble for ages, now it’s just one liners.

If you look at old interviews from the '80s, he had reasonably coherent sentences back then. They were idiotic hot takes, but nevertheless reasonably coherent.

Point being, even the "used to ramble for ages" stage was noticeable progression of decline.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 4 points 17 hours ago

Plus rambling is a known narcissistic tactic, it confuses people making it hard for them to win an argument

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago

It's dementia

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

No need to swear, your perceptions are correct!

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

There was a video of him somewhere, commenting about golf i think? His tone of voice and the way he spoke genuinely reminded me of the Downs Syndrome kids from the special ed classes in school, something about the specifix way his words were slurred (like his tongue was swollen) and the sentence structure. It was terrifying and (very briefly) made me feel pity.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She gushes, as the rape puppet performs his clown routine.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

She knows his tiny mushroom penis no longer works.

[–] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Are all Republicans using grease paint on their faces?

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago
[–] opus86@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He wants to talk looks with that hair cut?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Is there hair under that pile of straw?

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

So it dawned on him just being rich doesn‘t cut it anymore.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

It's a joke I could have made among friends...