Not to defend Trump in any way but I think this was more intended as a dig at the Chancellor, as in “ha ha America beat your asses in WWII”, rather than “D-Day was not a good day” in general. It’s a show of his usual ignorant pettiness, not his Nazi sympathies. That Trump is unable to grasp that most modern Germans are quite happy the Nazi regime ended is no surprise at all, even when the German Chancellor literally had just said so.
In situations like this, I really wish people wouldn’t step in to provide rhetorical cover for Trump’s nonsense, and would instead feign disingenuously innocent confusion and say, “I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand, can you explain what you mean by that?”
I get that diplomatic norms preclude this kind of thing. I just wish they’d make an exception for Trump.
It’s still stupid malignant nonsense. I’m just clarifying which kind of stupid malignant nonsense it is.
Yes, of course, and I agree with your interpretation. I’m simply longing for a foreign diplomat with the stones to step back and invite Trump to underline his own malignancy, instead of handwaving past it in the name of decorum.
I wish that too, but needless provocation would likely result in some petty retaliation. Better to remain highminded and let everyone else fill in the obvious blanks.
I’m sure all their mutual fans will continue to hate each other and otherwise behave exactly as they were, because they like money and hate woke.
Of course you won’t see Musk doing things like campaigning for Trump again, not unless they make nice. But I’m not sure Musk really moved the needle for Trump in 2024, and if Musk even thinks of pulling that stunt to interfere with Trump’s interests in 2028, Kash Patel will blast him into the stratosphere with election interference charges.
I honestly think Musk is in real trouble at this point. He enjoys no favor with any political faction, was mostly dependent on government handouts that are at risk of getting cancelled. You think Trump gives a shit if Musk shoots little routers into space? He’ll outlaw or nationalize Starlink, cut off SpaceX gov’t contracts, zap all of Tesla’s government goodies. Musk will have to compete as an unsubsidized business, an area where we know he struggles.
On the other hand, that could be a gift to Musk. He won’t need to be seen as failing on his own merits, he’ll have a villain and an excuse. I halfway expect him to lean into that.
And in any case I expect Mama Musk will be vectoring that angle if he does not do so himself. The Envious Inferiors turning on her perfect boy.
Oh, Heavens to Krugerrands…!
What a world, what a world…
Mama Musk? I thought it was a different woman he ran away from the cluseterfuck with.
I assume the comment was about the propensity for Maye to post on behalf of her poor billionaire middle aged son who still needs his mommy’s help standing up to those awful online bullies
I think you are probably right in that there isn’t anything to this, but only because That Asshole is too stupid to keep his mouth shut about the shit he’s done, and it surely would have come out by now. But I’ll bet he sure wanted an invite to that island.
Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit… The politically inconvenient data prompted administration officials to block publication of the written analysis normally attached to the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.
“Don’t release the forecast because it makes us look bad.”
“Stop testing for Covid and we’ll have fewer cases.”
At least the shitslime is consistent.
never mind
Righto.
She brings about her own whole category of annoyance.
So a million Americans dead due to his incompetence and ego wasn’t enough for the gormless reaper?
Ostrich Politics are comforting to some. If you can’t see the problem, it doesn’t exist.
And at least if you hide the problem, it’s easier to lie about how good you are as a leader.
This, I think, is really what’s happening. It’s not that Trump willfully ignores any problems, it’s that he’s violently allergic to any public statements which portray him (and, by extension, his administration, and the country, in general, under him) as anything less than amazing, brilliant, the very best ever, etc.
None of them are Trump, therefore their deaths are of no importance. Trump would condemn a billion people to death by torture if it made him an extra dollar or made him feel good for ten seconds, because from his narcissistic point of view that’s an infinite ratio of profit; something for nothing. None of those billion people are Trump, therefore by dying for him they are fulfilling the only purpose or meaning their life ever had, or could have.
To Trump, nobody matters in any way but Trump. Nobody and nothing. If Trump believes in God, he thinks God’s only purpose was to create Trump and thus give the universe and God meaning and purpose.
Of course he believes in God. The problem with that is he believes he is God.