Possibility #4: He got onto a plane for a long time and then off of a plane somewhere he didn’t recognize to meet with a foreign leader, so he assumed it was abroad.
Possibility #5: An old man who isn’t careful about his speech and doesn’t pay attention to detail misspoke, and didn’t actually mean the precise words that came out of his mouth, for the 700,000th time, and yet everyone insist on parsing his words as if they were reliable indicators of his thoughts.
My prediction after this mess today is if there ever is a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy, Trump won’t be included. It’ll be someone from Europe. Trump throws a tantrum how they screwed him out of his peace prize and cuts Ukraine support. 
The fucking dumbass doesn’t know that the US has always held elections on time even during war time.
The difference is that Ukraine’s constitution (if I recall correctly) specifically forbids elections during a war whereas the US constitution says nothing about that. Of course, the dumbass in chief probably thinks all countries have the same constitution as the US. Because he’s a dumbass. And now I have to apologize to asses, whether smart or dumb, for the comparison.
I was positive I’d already said that!
But it turned out I said it in a Farcebook meme I shared a couple of hours ago:
What the wannabe President for Life doesn’t understand that the prohibition on elections while at war is in the Ukrainian CONSTITUTION. Trump also doesn’t understand that the UNITED STATES Constitution has no such language, and the U.S. has ALWAYS held elections even in wartime. But Trump’s idiot cultists are going to believe their Messiah instead of reality.
You should; donkeys are wicked smart, probably have more brains in one long-ears’ head than in the entire White House aide staff’s.
WTH?? Zelensky says he is ready to meet Putin after Trump calls Russian leader - follow live - BBC News
I doubt this is true, at least entirely.
Ready to “meet” him? Hopefully shoot him in Orangeboy’s presence.
I almost experienced involuntary bodily function when some kiss ass “asked” “Do you think the main stream media wants the war to continue?”. Fuck me, these people are living, breathing jokes.
Was that the, “You, in the red dress,” statement from Orangeboy?
This one was asked by a male sychophant. I’m sure he’s in cahoots with red dress ass kisser.
President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.
Relying on false information and conspiracy theories that he’s regularly used to explain away his 2020 election loss, Trump pledged on his social media site that he would do away with both mail voting — which remains popular and is used by about one-third of all voters — and voting machines — some form of which are used in almost all of the country’s thousands of election jurisdictions. These are the same systems that enabled Trump to win the 2024 election and Republicans to gain control of Congress.
Trump’s post marks an escalation even in his normally overheated election rhetoric. He issued a wide-ranging executive order earlier this year that, among other changes, would have required documented proof-of-citizenship before registering to vote. His Monday post promised another election executive order to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm elections.”
The same post also pushed falsehoods about voting. He claimed the U.S. is the only country to use mail voting, when it’s actually used by dozens, including Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Similar complaints to Trump’s, when aired on conservative and conservative-leaning networks such as Newsmax and Fox News, have led to multimillion dollar defamation settlements, including one announced Monday, because they are full of false information and the outlets have not been able to present any evidence to support them.
Someone give the felon a lesson on the constitution!
While selling his new pitch to get rid of mail-in voting and voting machines, Trump included this remarkable pair of sentences.
“Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
Trump has described the states as “agents” of the federal government before in this context, but without casting them as subservient to him personally.
Black is, after all, the color of mourning.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky arrived for his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office wearing an all black suit, but no tie – months after he was derided for his lack of formal dress during his previous, and now infamous, visit to the White House.
The Ukrainian president wore a jacket, previously described as “suit-style” but not a full suit, as well as a black shirt during the sit-down Monday. His fashion choice was noted by members of the media who had criticized him in February.
“First of all, president Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit. You look good,” said MAGA reporter Brian Glenn, who last time had asked the Ukrainian leader “Do you even own a suit?”
“That’s the one that attacked you,” Trump said to Zelensky, to which he replied with a knowing smile: “I remember.” The Ukrainian president then noted to Glenn: “You are in the same suit. I changed, you have not,” drawing laughter from the room, as well as Trump.
Undocumented immigrant cop agrees to leave the US. (The bolding and italicizing are mine.)
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as part of the agency’s effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with the town and police department have said federal authorities previously told them Evans was legally authorized to work in the U.S.
An ICE representative reached by telephone told The Associated Press on Monday that a judge has granted voluntary departure for Evans and that he could leave as soon as that day. The representative did not provide other details about Evans’ case.
Evans’ arrest touched off a dispute between Old Orchard Beach officials and ICE. Police Chief Elise Chard has said the department was notified by federal officials that Evans was legally permitted to work in the country, and that the town submitted information via the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program prior to Evans’ employment. Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin then accused the town of “reckless reliance” on the department’s E-Verify program.
E-Verify is an online system that allows employers to check if potential employees can work legally in the U.S.
And what else should they be relying on if not the information provided by the people responsible for such information, and the program they are required by law to use?
Let’s hightlight just the most important takeaways from 'Merica’s Menace’s Monday Meeting.
After previously pushing for a ceasefire and threatening severe consequences for Russia if Putin did not stop the war, President Trump appeared to back off that demand.
“I don’t think you need a ceasefire,” he said in the Oval Office. “I know that it might be good to have, but I can also understand strategically, like, well, you know, one country or the other wouldn’t want it.”
& WTF?
He continued that he likes “the concept of a ceasefire for one reason, because you’d stop killing people immediately.”
The concept of a plan, I mean the concept of a ceasefire is something he likes?
As I said earlier, this is an intervention run by Europe’s leaders.
Trump and Zelenskyy sat down with a host of European leaders in the East Room following their bilateral talks in the Oval Office.
At the table were NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Finland President Alexander Stubb.
Nearly all the leaders stressed the need for security guarantees for Ukraine, with several saying it should look similar to Article 5 obligations. Ukraine is not a member of NATO but the nation has pushed for membership, something Russia is strongly opposed to.
And of course the felon has to say he’ll report to his master.
Trump said he will call Putin after his meetings Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House.
“We’re going to have a phone call right after these meetings today, and we may or may not have a trilat. And if we don’t have a trilat, then the fighting continues. And if we do, we have a good chance – I think if we have a trilat that there’s a good chance of maybe ending it,” Trump said.
I think I mentioned somewhere way up above in this thread what the felon meant by how the war in Ukraine could end. I’m a prophet.
Trump used his Truth Social account to show his apparent stance going into the meeting, writing, “President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.”
A good chance of maybe. A concept of a ceasefire. Just quit fighting againts Russia. What a fucking weasel.
Seriously, not even Rome’s ancient emperors were this blatantly corrupt, no even this insane.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Food and Drug Administration needs outside guidance, it normally turns to a trusted source: a large roster of expert advisers who are carefully vetted for their independence, credentials and judgment.
But increasingly, the agency isn’t calling them.
Instead, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has launched a series of ad hoc “expert panels” to discuss antidepressants, menopause drugs and other topics with physicians and researchers who often have contrarian views and financial interests in the subjects.
Former agency officials worry the meetings are skirting federal rules on conflicts of interests and transparency, while promoting fringe viewpoints that align with those of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“These meetings are a chance to advance RFK’s pet peeves — talc, antidepressants, fluoride — with people who have been handpicked,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, a former FDA official who is now president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “Nobody would put forward these panels as representing the general scientific opinion on these topics.”
Pam Bondi has spent much of her time as attorney general wrangling with ethics officials determined to keep her from holding onto lavish gifts, a new report revealed Monday,
Bondi and her staff repeatedly pushed back on federal rules limiting gifts, a source familiar with the discussions told The New Yorker. Among the items at issue: a FIFA soccer ball that Trump himself lobbed her way after a meeting, and a box of cigars from mixed-martial-arts star Conor McGregor, who recently lost his appeal in a civil case where he was found liable for sexual assault.
“Every new administration needs time to adjust to ethics rules that might seem trivial,” the source said. “What wasn’t normal was the amount of pushback that we got.”
The Epstein files will be released!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move that appears to avert, at least temporarily, a potential separation of powers clash.
The records are to be turned over starting Friday to the House Oversight Committee, which earlier this month issued a broad subpoena to the Justice Department about a criminal case that has long captivated public attention, recently roiled the top rungs of President Donald Trump’s administration and been a consistent magnet for conspiracy theories.
Knowing the felon is incapable of joking, I’m wondering where, not when, our next war will be.
While the mood between the world leaders was lighter this time around, certain statements from Trump raised eyebrows among critics. During one part of their press conference, the U.S. president latched onto a statement by Zelenskyy about pausing elections during wartime, and spun it to hint at the possibility of him outlasting his two-term limit in 2028.
“So you’re saying during the war you can’t have elections,” he said, interrupting the Ukrainian president’s remarks. “So, let me just say, three and a half years from now… if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections. Oh, that’s good.”
This is a joke, right? The Second Felonial Era is demanding people show good moral character.
The Trump administration is ordering officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to take a more “holistic” approach when determining whether to award U.S. citizenship to immigrants, saying they must weigh more factors in determining whether an applicant has “good moral character.”
The Friday memo from USCIS said officers must now weigh not just any disqualifying behavior but whether those seeking to naturalize are in good standing in their community.
“Going forward, USCIS officers must account for an alien’s positive attributes and not simply the absence of misconduct,” the memo states.
Oh, there’s no chance at all that last bit is going to be abused. No chance at all. It’s a fucking certainty.
I had a similar thought but I’ll spoiler-code it for being kind of gross:
Zelensky anticipates Trump’s “look how hard I can squeeze your hand with my tiny hand” manoeuvre and judo-tosses Trump into Putin. Trump, completely unprepared for this, shits his entire ass upon impact. Putin, being a notorious germaphobe, immediately pukes which causes Trump, also a germaphobe, to have a heart attack. Putin is overcome by the stench of Trump’s soiled diaper and is slowly crushed under Trump’s bulk as security refuses to intervene until some can get gas masks and a janitorial crew on scene. JD Vance walks in, panics and immediately tries to run back out, slipping in the puddle of Trump grease and bashing his head on the concrete. Mike Johnson is so excited when he hears the news that he immediately drives over to the White House but his careless driving lands him in the Potomac and he’s driving one of those Teslas where the windows won’t open when it’s underwater. Zelensky returns home a triumphant hero. The demoralized Russian surrender the next day.
Optimistic.
Suddenly it’s a sunny day and I’m wearing a wistful smile.
I dunno if the International Criminal Court (ICC) can suspend the arrest warrant for Putin if asked “pretty please” by Trump.
Putin did go to Mongolia (last year), which is a member of the ICC, and potentially could have been arrested yet that was not going to happen there.
It’s clear from the ambling-over-Russian-land flight that Putin took that he thinks it too risky to fly over bodies of water, excepting skipping over the Aleutians with his own fighters and perhaps decoy planes and was eventually escorted into Alaska by F22’s.
So if a bilat or trilat isn’t going to happen in Moscow, and I highly doubt Zelensky would go there (or Belarus) there is no place in Europe he can safely go. Turkey is a reasonable enough place, as is most of Asia and some of Africa.
It could happen.
The US has nothing to do with the ICC so don’t need to ask and wouldn’t get an answer even if it did.
Also the idea of an arrest warrant for a head-of-state is a nice bit of legal theatre but it is insane to imagine any ICC signatory actually arresting Putin. Nuclear annihilation is not something most governments can just dismiss lightly.
Okay, so Geneva in Autumn it is. A direct flight from Moscow goes over the friendly skies of Belarus and then less-friendly Poland (who could perhaps be “pretty pleased” by Trump to allow the flyover)
ETA: At first I was thinking Vienna, which i suppose would do - yet I meant Geneva, so that includes some flying over of Germany. I do not reckon any particular country wants to target his plane and I don’t think he’s going around threatening Global Thermonuclear War if he’s unhappy. Unlike some heads of state, he’s not unhinged.
Or how about Helsinki. The President, Alexander Stubb, made mention of “The Winter War” yesterday, yet more in a tone of “We’ve gotten over it”
Putin could even take the train there, from St. Petersburg’s “Finland Station”
HEY! RUBIO! Started discussions with JD about the 25th amendment yet???
"When it comes to Trump, to borrow a phrase from Michael Tae Sweeney, Grandpa has his good days and bad days, but increasingly, it’s only bad days. For example, in a recent interview, Trump claimed that when he tried to vote, he was asked to provide his license plate number. Sure, thing. Whatever you say, Donald.
Speaking at the White House, Trump told reporters, “We’re gonna stop mail-in ballots, because it’s corrupt. You know, when you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in — they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it.’ They said, ‘Sir, you have to have it.’ I was very impressed, actually.”
On the plus side, those were all words in the English language, and he did manage to form mostly coherent sentences. So there is that. Personally, I would say the bar for the President of the United States should be a little higher than “coherent enough,” but maybe that’s just me, one of those wacky woke leftists who also believes people should get a fair trial before being sent to prison.
Read More: Trump Claims He Was Asked For His License Plate At The Voting Booth
I have voted in the USA, Ireland and the UK and have not been asked to show any ID (or what is known as the “license tag” here).
I’m sorry sir. If you really have a car, as you’ve stated, we can provide you with the proper screwdriver to remove you tag/plate and present it before you may vote.
Has anyone ever really received five ballots? And returned them completed? That’s voter fraud and it was a main concern of Jimmy Carter. Not the notion of “mail in ballots” and does trump really need to plot a war in 3.5 years to cancel the election? The USA will be fortunate to have one next year.