The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

Shiftless2 said:
"No idea if this is real or photoshopped but still funny ..... " S2 #1,099
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I too don't know if it's authentic.

Reason for doubt: Media are more State oriented there, BBC etc.

Reason for suspecting authenticity: the quality of the graphic is high in terms of illumination, color balance, camera orientation, the wrinkle in the upper right of the pic.

The caption is apparently not present at the bus queue. None the less Trump is a vengeful, petty man, a tyrant. Are those that opted to display the image safe from repercussion? Or so malicious as to attempt to invite repercussion upon those not safe?
 
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And he's got the biglious veins ever. Nobody has blockage in their veins like him.

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Now if there was a treatment for Chronic Brainius Insufficiency ....
 
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An 82 year old man was taken by ICE at a green card replacement appointment. His family was never informed where he was or how to get ahold of him until he was in a foreign hospital... despite the fact that he was a permanent legal resident of the US.

Luis Leon came to the US 38 years ago.

He had been tortured in his native Chile by the administration of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. The US gave him political asylum and he came legally to the United States in 1987.

Luis built a life here in the US. He worked at a leather manufacturing plant, raised four kids, and eventually retired.

He’s well-loved in his neighborhood in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He likes to garden and fish and do small repairs for the neighbors.

In June he lost his wallet, which had his green card in it.

No problem. Luis and his wife made an appointment to get it replaced.

But when they arrived for the appointment, Luis was handcuffed and taken away, and his wife was held for ten hours until her granddaughter showed up to get her.

His family couldn’t find him for a full month. The immigration detention tracker never showed him as in ICE custody. Immigration officials had no answers they were willing to give, despite .....

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President Trump is a master at partisan name-calling.
It doesn't mean Trump isn't guilty. It simply introduces questions about those that want Trump to keep
his campaign promise regarding this Epstein material.

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"... troublemakers and radical left lunatics" U.S. President Trump as reported by FOX News
BUT !!

Is Trump correct?
If taking that position earns Trump's scorn, then Trump scorns his own base.

Trump meets toughest opponent: his own base​

Jul 19, 2025 - Politics & Policy
An aggressive pressure campaign forced President Trump to flinch on the Jeffrey Epstein case — exposing a rare moment of weakness inflicted not by his enemies, but by his most loyal supporters.
Why it matters: Forget resistance mounted by Democrats, moderate Republicans or even the courts. The most destabilizing opposition of Trump's second term has come from within: an online MAGA army known for its extreme devotion.

Think criticism against Trump is mostly partisan, despite this Epstein backlash from MAGA? Then how do you explain the following, from Al Jazeera ?

Trump’s big beautiful police state is here​

The unprecedented expansion of the immigration enforcement budget will pave the way for more policing and repression in the US.

Belén Fernández Belén Fernández / Al Jazeera columnist / Published On 20 Jul 202520 Jul 2025
Law enforcement officers stand guard as protesters attempt to block US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel from leaving a court building in Chicago, Illinois on June 16, 2025 [Dylan Martinez/Reuters]
On July 4, United States President Donald Trump signed into law his so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill”, which will reduce taxes for the rich, punish the poor, and otherwise propel American plutocracy to ever more noxious heights.
Just days earlier, Trump’s Vice President JD Vance took to X to underline the key component of the legislation: “Everything else — the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
www.aljazeera.com

Trump’s big beautiful police state is here

The unprecedented expansion of the immigration enforcement budget will pave the way for more policing and repression.
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Trump can cancel all the comedians he wants, but he will never make us stop laughing at him.

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When George W. Bush launched his War on Terror, I noted that it was the first time in history that someone had declared war on a human emotion. If Bush defeated terror, I wondered, what was next—shyness?

Now Donald Trump has declared a War on Laughter, and I suspect it will be every bit as successful as Bush’s crusade.

Trump’s fear of being laughed at is nothing short of pathological. For years he’s been a crybaby about his portrayal on “Saturday NightLive.” And it was Barack Obama’s mockery of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner that reportedly impelled him to run for president. (Thanks, Obama.)

Like everything else rattling around in the commodious cavern of Trump’s brain, his fear of ridicule is unoriginal: he shares it with pretty much every dictator in the world. You might have noticed, for example, that there isn’t a thriving comedy scene in Pyongyang.

The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

Which brings me to Trump’s latest target in his War on Laughter: Stephen Colbert.

Earlier this week, Colbert roasted the quislings at CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for donating $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a risible lawsuit he filed against them. Given that Shari Redstone, Paramount’s biggest shareholder since the death of her icky father, is desperate to keep the government from scuttling a merger that will make her even richer, Colbert was justified in calling the payment a “big fat bribe.”

Yesterday, Trump’s proxies at CBS dutifully canceled Colbert, issuing the following statement: "This is purely a financial .....

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It takes the courage of a Canadian Journalist to really tell it like it is. Apparently, no journalist in the U.S. has the courage to say these things this clearly: I don't think any US journalist has written as tough (and spot-on) a portrayal of the threat facing us as this Canadian, Andrew Coyne of the Toronto Globe and Mail.

>>Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.

The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security .....

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BREAKING: Comedian Jon Stewart unleashes a fiery takedown of CBS for canceling Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" in a possible attempt to please Donald Trump and grease the wheels for a corporate merger: "F*cking wrong."

Most people would have backed down in fear, but Stewart is vowing to "not give in" even now...

"Watching Stephen exceed all expectations in the role and become the number one late-night show on television has been an undeniable great pleasure for me as a viewer and as his friend, and now Stephen has been canceled for purely 'financial reasons,'” Colbert said on "The Daily Show."

“And by the way, not just Stephen’s show. CBS has canceled the entirety of The Late Show franchise. Gone," he added.

“Now I acknowledge, losing money. Late-night TV is a struggling financial model," Stewart continued. "We’re all basically operating a Blockbuster kiosk inside of a Tower Records.

But when your industry is faced with changes, you don’t just call it a day. My God, when CDs stopped selling, they didn’t just go, ‘Oh well, music, it’s been a good run.’”

Last Monday, Colbert attacked Paramount Global for paying Trump $16 million to settle a sham lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris in 2024. The suit has been widely interpreted as presidential extortion on Trump's part, because ....

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