Trump gave an embarrassing speech at the UN, full of whininess and petulance and egotism, and on social media all you’ll find is conspiracy theorists inventing conspiracies about an escalator that stopped working and a faulty teleprompter. We need to stop funding the UN because they intentionally stopped an escalator! It’s the most petty stuff yet.
Except that the AP reports the actual causes:
Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”
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A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.
That did not stop Trump from complaining about it in his speech, nor has it prevented the MAGA hordes from inventing scenarios where the minor incidents were contrived to afflict the president.
It’s a distraction. What everyone should be talking about is his rambling, incoherent, accusatory speech where he made up lies about stopping 7 wars and that he deserved a Nobel prize for each of them (he’s obsessed with prizes, like a 4 year old at Chuck E. Cheese), and went on to accuse every other nation of being failures who had fallen for the scams of environmentalists. It was absolutely deranged. This ought to be grounds for impeachment due to incompetence, except that all the Republicans believe that Trumpism is what will keep them in power, and we also dread seeing JD Vance elevated further.
I mean, really, his brain is broken.
Oh, and about that claim that he ended 7 wars:
And the Cambodian-Thai border crisis is still going on.
He’s done diddly-squat but he wants a Nobel peace prize for it.
How long until the escalator is labeled a member of Antifa?
He should fet an Ig Nobel peace prize… for stopping the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia.
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Let us not forget how he confused Gaza Province in the African country Mozambique with the Gaza strip and claimed US foreign aid was sending condoms to Hamas ( no, and they did not even send it to Mozambique).
I hate to say it, but I just watched Gavin Newsom on Colbert last night, and that man, never mind his close connections to the Trump family via his ex, the Mar-A-lago faced Mrs Guilfoyle, that man has energy. He said all the right things, and I see absolutely nobody in the Democratic party who could or should even be a close match to him in any primary. Yes I know, big problems with the guy, but if there are in fact still midterms, and if there is a presidential election in 2028, that dude has to run.
Kimmel’s monologue now has 7 million views on YT after a few hours, talk about the Streisand effect.
Trump’s talk at the UN has surely shown even the most hapless dictator out there that he is a TACO.
Until the end of eternity, the Republicans should be forced to own this. Otherwise they will blame his mistakes on Democratic presidents in less than five years from now.
If the Republicans run Kang or Kodos for the presidency it would arguably be an improvement. A few humans getting eaten is nothing compared to the health care catastrophe of Trump/RFK Jr.
There are still many monarchies in the world, and they all have special procedures to be followed in the case where the Crown is passed to a child too young for the job. I am frankly disappointed that no-one asked to speak to Trump’s adult carer.
Trump strikes me as one of those kids who actually believes a participation trophy is a triumph.
This sums it up.
Of course most of us see how embarrassing this is.
That isn’t even the worst.
Trump and the GOP are also systematically destroying what is good about the USA every day and wrecking where we live.
Many of us are doing whatever we can to end our national nightmare of incompetent fascist rule. At some cost and some risk to ourselves.
Ask Jimmy Kimmel what it has cost him or the Fed governor Lisa Cook that Trump has targeted for removal.
Honestly I hesitate to make fun of someone who has great difficulty reading. Also, in a very well-defined sense, Mr. Trump really is the victim here, for either his environment or his nature may have prevented him from learning things properly.
Of course, he does a lot of damage too, but he actually may in some sense be one of the poorest people in the world, and the fact that so many people are working just to make him happy only makes it worse for him.
The president of the USA, who is tearing down traditional norms and remaking the government, is not someone who can be called a “victim”. He’s at the pinnacle of power and is using it to do great harm to every citizen in the country.
I am of mixed views on that. Whatever it is that Trump has that makes some people follow him, James Donald Bowman doesn’t have it. So he probably couldn’t get the Senate Republicans and the Supreme Court to go along with his criming.
If we do go down the route of blaming the man’s upbringing, circumstances and lack of formal education for his ravening incompetence, then we should also note that at any point in the last thirty years he could have walked away and used some of his ill-gotten gains to educate himself. Or just decided to enjoy his undeserved wealth out of the public eye in whatever disgusting fashion took his fancy.
Nobody compelled him to seek election as president three times.
@12 Well said.
The worst thing about the speech, the worst thing about Trump — and I know, it’s hard to choose — is his climate change denialism. That’s what is most likely to bring about a collapse of civilization.
Despite his constant whining for a cookie, not only has he done jack-shit to end coflicts on the international stage, he, his administration, and their assorted media lickspittles continue to employ violent and dehumanizing threats and language against anyone and anything they dont like.
Fox News has already called for the UN to be defunded or bombed over this escalator “issue”.
Obama got the Peace Prize for not being Bush. Trump is so, so much worse than Bush ever was.
i hear trump also ended the war between rebels and the empire in some galaxy far far away.
I feel very strongly that Taco should get the Nacho Piece of Shit Prize.
how long until the GOP members of congress grow some balls and defy this lunatic? proclaim “the emperor has no clothes!” – incompetence, criminal acts, coercion, shake downs, obvious lickspittle obsequiousness towards Putin (give him another month?), the bribes…impeach him already take back your ‘party’ be patriots, be Americans, have some integrity, some dignity. You fear that the ‘base’ will primary you and replace you with someone who will what? do exactly what Trump wants so..you do exactly what Trump wants? Cowards, traitors, to hell with the lot of them
Sharia law?
Here in Canada we operate under Shania Law.
Whenever I daydream about Trump being medically or mentally incapacitated and replaced, I come back to reality. There lurks JD, the Catholic convert. This being America, he has every right to believe whatever he wants, but it’s a well known fact that converts tend to be the most zealous and fanatical followers. They are convinced they’re found the truth, and now that they’ve found it, they’ll make damn sure you must, too.
More horror.
Farron Cousins on Trump inventing a new FBI term to tag transgender people as ‘violent extremists’.
“This is TERRIFYING”
.https://youtube.com/shorts/DK7DnN34SWA
John watts @ 21
When we take over everyone will be happy. And if some do not want to be happy we have the means to make them.