I believe what is happening is that his goal is the debasement of not only DC, but the US overall. He is destroying our cultural heritage because: a) he's pissed that he was held accountable for fraud and sexual assault; and b) because he truly despises a constitutional republic under the rule of law.
The BIG story is the EPSTEIN/TRUMP connection in 2016 exposed.
AI. Research by citizen journalist Ellie Leonard confirms that newly unsealed Department of Justice documents place Jeffrey Epstein at Trump Tower on November 13, 2016.
Document Evidence Discovered by Leonard
The specific timeline is verified by internal file numbers from the federal Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosure:
-File EFTA01620474: A text message thread between Epstein and former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Ken Mapp. In the messages, Epstein writes that he is "seeing trump people today" and notes "with regard Donald - we will talk face to face.
-"File EFTA02669184: An internal email Epstein sent to himself that investigators used to cross-reference and verify that he was the "unknown" sender of those text messages.
-File EFTA01744330: Separate email correspondence between Epstein and an associate. In September 2016, the associate asks Epstein, "will you have a cabinet position?"
On November 13, 2016, Epstein explicitly emails back confirming he is physically at Trump Tower.
Birds of a feather still flock together. Nigel Farage (the man who engineered Brexit) and Trump, photographed together rejoicing at Trump Tower after the results were announced.
"Unfortunately, while the grift, scams, and self-dealing parts of his personal portfolio seem to have paid handsomely, his record of public deals (a Qatari jet now in the shop, a series of failed Iran agreements, non-existent Gaza rebuilding plans) and botched projects in D.C. (ranging from the faulty helipad design to the Reflecting Pool debacle to his garish gold-flocked White House) have become testaments to his tacky taste and incompetence."
Our beloved capital will need a major cleanse when the toxic flop finally waddles out of the White House. And all of his swamp creatures ooze out behind him.
Leave voluntarily? That's a hoot. The 'swamp creatures' will have to be discovered from all walks of government and driven out for an effective recovery.
...on rails after being tarred and feathered...or bring back the stocks.
We could bring down the national debt with a small fee (.25 seems fair for adults; kids throw free) and the chance to whip some fast balls (apples and tomatoes) at their ugly mugs.
Hmm..what could these 'stock dwellers' wear for this happy occasion? Depends! Fitting garb for this 'basket of deplorables' and all-around nasties, traitors all.
We cannot expect the US economy to grow and make life easier for the average citizen, as long as all these citizens' productivity is siphoned off by the orange convicted felon, his family, his supporters and donors.
Or, being a massive narcissist, he believes that he is the world and the world is him. No other person or peoples tastes or opinion matter at all compared to his, and of course, he should remake all living spaces to reflect his own tastes and his own self glory.
Insecurity and low self-image are always at the core of narcissism. It's what drives Trump's need for more and more attention, "awards" (FIFA Peace Prize), and monuments to his "glory."
We cannot blame Trump alone. He was able to destroy America and WH because the Congress has enabled him to do so. For the midterm, DEMS must focus on this very fault of the Congress.
I'm sorry, but you just don't get it! He is poison, and he has no goals! When I worked at the world's largest bank in NYC at the time, our Chief Credit Officer developed a "Do Not Bank" list. It was done so that our field officers would not waste our resources and their time chasing deals that our Senior Credit Committee could never approve. The Trump family, with Fred at the head, with his moron son Donny at his side, was on the list as deadbeats who worked the Mafia. As a young credit analyst, I never forgot what he told me when I asked him about the companies and people on the list. "In this business, we can't afford to waste our time on poisonous relationships that will drain our capital. Some people in this life are just poison, and you never open the door to them."
Donald J Trump is "just poison". Please stop trying to understand or rationalize him or his family. They are simply poisonous, and they will ruin anything they touch. We must get them out of the White House and DC.
When discussing the degradation of DC, don't forget to mention the military presence of the National Guard milling around the city with nothing to do...yet! What is the daily cost of their presence in our lives?
He is a tasteless vulgarian and barbarian hellbent on degrading and defacing the Capitol of the former Constitutional Republic of the United States of America. He needs to be dragged by the toes out of the White House, tried, convicted, and sentenced to live out the remainder of his days as the only inmate of Alcatraz.
Great idea, but I'd suggest the locale of his imprisonment to be house arrest in a ghetto in south central L.A, next door to a baby mama with 9 kids by 9 absent daddies., sharing the hellhole with Stephen Miller.
Nah, it's true that Trump has no respect for the rule of law, and he's pissed at being convicted for fraud and sexual assault, but his ballroom and arc are due to the malignant narcissism that pervades his psyche. He's always loved seeing his name on buildings, and believes he's especially good at building.
I don't agree. His sole goal is enrichment and glorification of himself. HIMSELF. Period. That's all he cares about. If the rule of law or our cultural heritage benefited HIM, he'd keep them.
It is beyond laughable that he often claims, "I love this country." Excuse me, but B.S.! He hates everything about this country, especially the parts that made it great.
Poor, little baby, he can't stand that he's the LOSER of all Presidents--of all people, as far as I'm concerned.
Someone with his level of contempt for everyone and everything, must harbor an extreme level of self-hate. And all the gold in the world won't bring him respect or likability.
No one is mentioning the loss of 300,000 employees due to the termination of TPS status for that many Haitians. And who is going to give them food and housing while they wait to be deported? ICE?
Trump wants to send hard-working, law-abiding people with US born children back to a dangerous and dysfunctional country, even if it wrecks the economies of sections of this country. Who benefits?
Maybe he’s planning on capturing his political enemies and forcing them into work camps to fill those jobs? And, of course, prisoners are the only source of labor that you don’t have to pay.(I mean this satirically but who knows with these people?)
Trump will leave us with countless “holes” in our government institutions and our landscape. We have lost good people, good agencies, good buildings, good practices, and good will.
Our one consolation is that Trump will never be hailed as a great leader. Instead, he will be forever be denounced as another of the most incompetent and malevolent leaders in world history. May we never see the likes of him again!
Cabinet members from the first term rushed to publish - and the current denizens probably will too. People willing to work with a corrupt regime tend to be pretty corrupt themselves. Go figure 🤔
They will denounce him, but they are addicted to the graft. So Big Business will also denounce him for his tackiness, incompetence, and failure, but turn around and pay all his erstwhile friends to perpetuate the decades-long syphoning off of the wealth of the nation to these very vampires.
Trump would dispatch these 'friends' just as quickly, throwing them all under the bus. He should receive equal treatment, assuming he actually has any friends.
Everyday, Trump and his ghoulish colleagues come up with new ways to distract and infuriate America. Don't be distracted. We MUST throw these bastards out of power.
Trump is doing what he has done his entire life. Trump destroys almost everything he becomes involved with. The question is: Will the American people allow Trump to destroy America? The only way to stop Trump from destroying America is to get off of our collective asses and vote the MAGA Cult out of office in November.
No one had to look hard to see that if there’s the opposite of the Midas Touch, Trump has it. How could so many millions be so blind to the fact he’s a complete moron with no evident redeeming qualities? My hope, and the signs look good, is that in addition to our beloved White House, he’s also taken a wrecking ball to the Republican Party so Democrats can step in and repair not only his damage, but that of every Republican president since Nixon.
The man is utterly nouveau riche, which is a bit unexpected since he inherited his money from his father (and would be even richer now had he just invested it in index funds).
But regardless, he's living proof that money doesn't necessarily buy class.
Trump's record is crystal clear. He lost half a billion dollars given to him by his dad. His family didn't trust him with money. His business were full of fraud and failure. He is ruining the country the exact same way, while illegally extracting our money for himself.
That's why credible lawyers have dubbed the Trump regime a Criminal Enterprise. There's not a clearer reason to remove these people from office. Now.
Now is the time for Regime Leader Trump to focus on the design of the monument traditionally reserved to tyrants: his own tomb. No public push back there. His base, the Epstein Class, the Tech Broligarchs and other oligarchs can show their fealty in contributing to its cost. Is the design of the Lenin Mausoleum trademarked?
What would be the surprise if the proposed Arch du Trump is the design of his tomb? Large, out of place, expensive and garish - it fits all of the criteria.
The decision of the Circuit Court seemed preordained to me by simply applying property law. A tenant never has the right to make changes to the demised premises without the express written consent of the owner, something that a leach like Donald should have known. I am one of the owners, and I do not consent to his waste of my interest.
Trump didn’t throw on his hard hat and run outside to operate the heavy equipment that destroyed the East Wing - contractors did. They may have been mislead into thinking the president had apparent authority to hire them, but this decision should put every contractor on notice that Trump has NO authority to destroy public property, and neither do they. They are trespassing, and should not be paid.
I would like all contractors to be called out. The courts need to deal with them, too. Not just Dumpy. Cease and desist orders and a warning to any new potential contractors.
Trump's policies are deliberately shrinking the labor force, so the unemployment rate does not look as bad as it actually is (4.1 percent of a much smaller cohort). One of the many problems with this is that it drastically reduces contributions to Medicare and Social Security, so the trust fund will be depleted sooner than expected. The inevitable result of very slow overall economic growth, only 1.5 percent on an annual basis in the second quarter, is bad for everyone.
Your term "contributions" is a hoot. Contributions are voluntary. The extraction of money from payroll to fund these operations is not voluntary. Otherwise, your observation is right in every way.
My father was a colleague of Marvin Rothman, financial analyst who correctly “expected” the failure of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. The beat goes on.
I believe what is happening is that his goal is the debasement of not only DC, but the US overall. He is destroying our cultural heritage because: a) he's pissed that he was held accountable for fraud and sexual assault; and b) because he truly despises a constitutional republic under the rule of law.
Or he’s a Russian asset. The Manchurian candidate come to life.
The BIG story is the EPSTEIN/TRUMP connection in 2016 exposed.
AI. Research by citizen journalist Ellie Leonard confirms that newly unsealed Department of Justice documents place Jeffrey Epstein at Trump Tower on November 13, 2016.
Document Evidence Discovered by Leonard
The specific timeline is verified by internal file numbers from the federal Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosure:
-File EFTA01620474: A text message thread between Epstein and former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Ken Mapp. In the messages, Epstein writes that he is "seeing trump people today" and notes "with regard Donald - we will talk face to face.
-"File EFTA02669184: An internal email Epstein sent to himself that investigators used to cross-reference and verify that he was the "unknown" sender of those text messages.
-File EFTA01744330: Separate email correspondence between Epstein and an associate. In September 2016, the associate asks Epstein, "will you have a cabinet position?"
On November 13, 2016, Epstein explicitly emails back confirming he is physically at Trump Tower.
Birds of a feather still flock together. Nigel Farage (the man who engineered Brexit) and Trump, photographed together rejoicing at Trump Tower after the results were announced.
Good old Ellie. She will be the one that will bring down this fat felon.
He's not that smart.
That's why his advisers are so dangerous.
Those two things are not incompatible. Not by a long sight.
"Unfortunately, while the grift, scams, and self-dealing parts of his personal portfolio seem to have paid handsomely, his record of public deals (a Qatari jet now in the shop, a series of failed Iran agreements, non-existent Gaza rebuilding plans) and botched projects in D.C. (ranging from the faulty helipad design to the Reflecting Pool debacle to his garish gold-flocked White House) have become testaments to his tacky taste and incompetence."
Our beloved capital will need a major cleanse when the toxic flop finally waddles out of the White House. And all of his swamp creatures ooze out behind him.
Leave voluntarily? That's a hoot. The 'swamp creatures' will have to be discovered from all walks of government and driven out for an effective recovery.
...on rails after being tarred and feathered...or bring back the stocks.
We could bring down the national debt with a small fee (.25 seems fair for adults; kids throw free) and the chance to whip some fast balls (apples and tomatoes) at their ugly mugs.
Hmm..what could these 'stock dwellers' wear for this happy occasion? Depends! Fitting garb for this 'basket of deplorables' and all-around nasties, traitors all.
There's no sense in dressing them in anything clean if all we're going to do is chuck stuff (garbage?) at them. Cast-offs from the unhomed would do.
Eww...the sight of their
fat bums would scare the kids
and throw their aim!
The stocks. Inescapable humiliation.
He will leave, possibly early and in a coffin, given the condition he's in.
One can only hope. Then we're left to deal with the rest of the lackeys.
We cannot expect the US economy to grow and make life easier for the average citizen, as long as all these citizens' productivity is siphoned off by the orange convicted felon, his family, his supporters and donors.
That will a day to cheer!
Or, being a massive narcissist, he believes that he is the world and the world is him. No other person or peoples tastes or opinion matter at all compared to his, and of course, he should remake all living spaces to reflect his own tastes and his own self glory.
I fear this is the accurate take on his internal mental processes...
I'm nobody's psychiatrist, but I think insecurity and self-loathing must be somewhere in Trump's portfolio of hatred and rage.
Insecurity and low self-image are always at the core of narcissism. It's what drives Trump's need for more and more attention, "awards" (FIFA Peace Prize), and monuments to his "glory."
Given his toxic parents, that's a sure thing.
Soothed by flattery.
We cannot blame Trump alone. He was able to destroy America and WH because the Congress has enabled him to do so. For the midterm, DEMS must focus on this very fault of the Congress.
I'm sorry, but you just don't get it! He is poison, and he has no goals! When I worked at the world's largest bank in NYC at the time, our Chief Credit Officer developed a "Do Not Bank" list. It was done so that our field officers would not waste our resources and their time chasing deals that our Senior Credit Committee could never approve. The Trump family, with Fred at the head, with his moron son Donny at his side, was on the list as deadbeats who worked the Mafia. As a young credit analyst, I never forgot what he told me when I asked him about the companies and people on the list. "In this business, we can't afford to waste our time on poisonous relationships that will drain our capital. Some people in this life are just poison, and you never open the door to them."
Donald J Trump is "just poison". Please stop trying to understand or rationalize him or his family. They are simply poisonous, and they will ruin anything they touch. We must get them out of the White House and DC.
When discussing the degradation of DC, don't forget to mention the military presence of the National Guard milling around the city with nothing to do...yet! What is the daily cost of their presence in our lives?
He is a tasteless vulgarian and barbarian hellbent on degrading and defacing the Capitol of the former Constitutional Republic of the United States of America. He needs to be dragged by the toes out of the White House, tried, convicted, and sentenced to live out the remainder of his days as the only inmate of Alcatraz.
Alcatraz has been repurposed and has too nice a view and climate. Guantanamo awaits.
Great idea, but I'd suggest the locale of his imprisonment to be house arrest in a ghetto in south central L.A, next door to a baby mama with 9 kids by 9 absent daddies., sharing the hellhole with Stephen Miller.
Ooh, YES!
Flashback to his first EO in 2027: Hey! I'm the President!
Nah, it's true that Trump has no respect for the rule of law, and he's pissed at being convicted for fraud and sexual assault, but his ballroom and arc are due to the malignant narcissism that pervades his psyche. He's always loved seeing his name on buildings, and believes he's especially good at building.
Except....that he's much better at destruction than construction. The evidence is in.
I don't agree. His sole goal is enrichment and glorification of himself. HIMSELF. Period. That's all he cares about. If the rule of law or our cultural heritage benefited HIM, he'd keep them.
He’s a sore loser who cannot and will not hold himself accountable for his 8 decades of poor performance in everything he attempts.
So his goal must be thwarted.
It is beyond laughable that he often claims, "I love this country." Excuse me, but B.S.! He hates everything about this country, especially the parts that made it great.
Poor, little baby, he can't stand that he's the LOSER of all Presidents--of all people, as far as I'm concerned.
His love is highly conditional, highly transactional. He loves the country only so long as it loves him. Otherwise, he has no use for it.
He's an undisciplined child who has bullied his way into getting whatever he wants. Come on, America!
I think he's mostly getting even with all those pointy-headed liberals who didn't vote for him, but otherwise we're on the same page.
Someone with his level of contempt for everyone and everything, must harbor an extreme level of self-hate. And all the gold in the world won't bring him respect or likability.
No one is mentioning the loss of 300,000 employees due to the termination of TPS status for that many Haitians. And who is going to give them food and housing while they wait to be deported? ICE?
Trump wants to send hard-working, law-abiding people with US born children back to a dangerous and dysfunctional country, even if it wrecks the economies of sections of this country. Who benefits?
Maybe he’s planning on capturing his political enemies and forcing them into work camps to fill those jobs? And, of course, prisoners are the only source of labor that you don’t have to pay.(I mean this satirically but who knows with these people?)
See Project 2025.
Nobody. It's just Stephen Miller's wet dream because he enjoys cruelty.
Miller is a genuinely, morally ugly human being.
Who benefits? His racism.
all the racists in america
tRump would be quite happy for them to just starve.
Trump will leave us with countless “holes” in our government institutions and our landscape. We have lost good people, good agencies, good buildings, good practices, and good will.
Our one consolation is that Trump will never be hailed as a great leader. Instead, he will be forever be denounced as another of the most incompetent and malevolent leaders in world history. May we never see the likes of him again!
Yeah, but people voted for him. So while I'd cut off my arm with a rusty saw before I'd ever support him, collectively as a nation we own him!
Hopefully over time we can disown him.
It won't surprise me a bit if his own "best buds" start denouncing him as soon as he's out of power. That's just the kind of "friends" they are.
without a doubt his friends and his associations are mainly of the "fair weather" variety
He has never had a real friend - he is too transactional. Every relationship has to benefit him.
Cabinet members from the first term rushed to publish - and the current denizens probably will too. People willing to work with a corrupt regime tend to be pretty corrupt themselves. Go figure 🤔
They will denounce him, but they are addicted to the graft. So Big Business will also denounce him for his tackiness, incompetence, and failure, but turn around and pay all his erstwhile friends to perpetuate the decades-long syphoning off of the wealth of the nation to these very vampires.
Trump would dispatch these 'friends' just as quickly, throwing them all under the bus. He should receive equal treatment, assuming he actually has any friends.
Everyday, Trump and his ghoulish colleagues come up with new ways to distract and infuriate America. Don't be distracted. We MUST throw these bastards out of power.
Trump is doing what he has done his entire life. Trump destroys almost everything he becomes involved with. The question is: Will the American people allow Trump to destroy America? The only way to stop Trump from destroying America is to get off of our collective asses and vote the MAGA Cult out of office in November.
No one had to look hard to see that if there’s the opposite of the Midas Touch, Trump has it. How could so many millions be so blind to the fact he’s a complete moron with no evident redeeming qualities? My hope, and the signs look good, is that in addition to our beloved White House, he’s also taken a wrecking ball to the Republican Party so Democrats can step in and repair not only his damage, but that of every Republican president since Nixon.
That's a big ask, and it will take time and concerted effort to effect repairs.
"How could so many be so blind?"
It's possible that P.T. Barnum answered that question. Some people also like the ideas of cults, racism and hate.
Thank you Jen. The Golden Calf returns. Since we have no Moses, we will have to fix this ourselves.
The man is utterly nouveau riche, which is a bit unexpected since he inherited his money from his father (and would be even richer now had he just invested it in index funds).
But regardless, he's living proof that money doesn't necessarily buy class.
Money also doesn't buy integrity, honor, empathy, ethics or decency. Those traits are defined by character, of which he has none.
Trump's record is crystal clear. He lost half a billion dollars given to him by his dad. His family didn't trust him with money. His business were full of fraud and failure. He is ruining the country the exact same way, while illegally extracting our money for himself.
That's why credible lawyers have dubbed the Trump regime a Criminal Enterprise. There's not a clearer reason to remove these people from office. Now.
Now is the time for Regime Leader Trump to focus on the design of the monument traditionally reserved to tyrants: his own tomb. No public push back there. His base, the Epstein Class, the Tech Broligarchs and other oligarchs can show their fealty in contributing to its cost. Is the design of the Lenin Mausoleum trademarked?
What would be the surprise if the proposed Arch du Trump is the design of his tomb? Large, out of place, expensive and garish - it fits all of the criteria.
And should, like the ballroom, be razed at the first opportunity.
Hear hear, and absolutely!
In the best of all possible worlds, neither should be allowed to be built.
And displayed in a glass tank full of formaldehyde?
And the paved over rose garden.
so THAT'S where the bodies are buried....
The decision of the Circuit Court seemed preordained to me by simply applying property law. A tenant never has the right to make changes to the demised premises without the express written consent of the owner, something that a leach like Donald should have known. I am one of the owners, and I do not consent to his waste of my interest.
Trump didn’t throw on his hard hat and run outside to operate the heavy equipment that destroyed the East Wing - contractors did. They may have been mislead into thinking the president had apparent authority to hire them, but this decision should put every contractor on notice that Trump has NO authority to destroy public property, and neither do they. They are trespassing, and should not be paid.
Oh, don’t worry. Trump is famous for not paying his contractors!
I would like all contractors to be called out. The courts need to deal with them, too. Not just Dumpy. Cease and desist orders and a warning to any new potential contractors.
no problem with them getting paid, they won't
Spot on! and every Republican in Congress owns this.
100%
Trump's policies are deliberately shrinking the labor force, so the unemployment rate does not look as bad as it actually is (4.1 percent of a much smaller cohort). One of the many problems with this is that it drastically reduces contributions to Medicare and Social Security, so the trust fund will be depleted sooner than expected. The inevitable result of very slow overall economic growth, only 1.5 percent on an annual basis in the second quarter, is bad for everyone.
Your term "contributions" is a hoot. Contributions are voluntary. The extraction of money from payroll to fund these operations is not voluntary. Otherwise, your observation is right in every way.
My father was a colleague of Marvin Rothman, financial analyst who correctly “expected” the failure of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. The beat goes on.