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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
10:13 AM · Mar 13, 2026
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-13T14:13:40.318Z
nitpicked
(1,734 posts)FakeNoose
(41,289 posts)
Grim Chieftain
(1,620 posts)If there was any justice in this world (which I doubt) the orange felon would stroke out on the first hole of his MAGA Largo golf course.
haele
(15,342 posts)Just quoting.
BaronChocula
(4,464 posts)instead of lips on the ass.
Given that we now have a very pissed off Iran. A nation state, with significant nation state power and capabilities. And Mar-a-lardo isn't known for its security. The US security apparatus can only do so much with a moron who insists on being very hard to secure.
Justice matters.
(9,704 posts)and costs double, or triple the bundle it would if orange $atan would stay in DC.
Of course he's not paying a dime for the extra expenses... that's what the national debt is for for Republicans.
paleotn
(22,104 posts)Not only is the Iranian regime pissed as hell, they're facing a real, existential threat. People tend to do crazy shit when they feel they've got nothing to lose. That's the problem with ultimatums. They don't give either side much room to maneuver. That's very dangerous.
allegorical oracle
(6,421 posts)any point than about 3/4 of a mile. It originally sat next to Lake Worth on the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, but the lake was transformed into an inland waterway. So that means the Coast Guard must patrol both the waterway and the Atlantic sides of the island.
History of Palm Beach -- the island, not the city, is interesting. According to my copy of Roosevelt's WPA (Works Projects Administration) guidebook to Florida -- Palm Beach "has no Negro settlement, and Negroes are not allowed on the streets after dark, unless actively employed in the city."
It is a rarified atmosphere. Only for the fittest-of-the-fit like Donald J. Trump.
ShazzieB
(22,506 posts)And that's on top of what this stupid, pointless war is costing. What a slap in the face for all the Americans who are struggling to pay their suddenly inflated health care premiums and/or trying to make do with reduced SNAP benefits ... especially the kids who will have to go to school hungry because of the latter.
The profound, unadulterated evil of that monster is like nothing I've ever seen before in my entire life. 👿
flashman13
(2,341 posts)PuraVidaDreamin
(4,580 posts)more dripping sarc.
GentryDixon
(3,143 posts)niyad
(131,889 posts)Initech
(108,550 posts)And his shitty propaganda channel is blaming the victims.
littlemissmartypants
(32,900 posts)Does anyone know what the "weekend "excursions" current tally might be? WE THE PEOPLE need an updated cost assessment.
ananda
(34,982 posts)Bam
ScratchCat
(2,735 posts)Donald Trump and Benjamin Nuttyyahoo are illegally attacking a sovereign country as a distraction to their crimes and a complicit US military is following unlawful, un-Constitutional orders when legal authorization has not been given by Congress. What we are witnessing - the assassination and kidnapping of leaders of sovereign countries and the bombing of infrastructure - doesn't remotely fall under "Limited military action" as authorized by TWPA.
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and the generals who obeyed commands to launch missiles which destroyed a school are guilty of war crimes and must be held accountable for these unlawful acts.
The god damned media is engaged in a mind fuck of US viewers with agit-prop nonsense and have completely abandoned the discussion of the fact that what Trump is doing is unlawful and un-Constitutional.
But the country is not actually at war.
Ford_Prefect
(8,582 posts)BigmanPigman
(55,035 posts)while he is in FL. They threatened to do so last week.
xuplate
(201 posts)He got what he wantednow he will try to invoke war powers to stop the mid-terms.
Vinca
(53,829 posts)calimary
(89,816 posts)so he doesnt actually have to step away from his precious golf game.
Norbert
(7,726 posts)irisblue
(37,375 posts)
dflprincess
(29,318 posts)I don't want to think about how Trump's government would retaliate & the rally 'round the flag crap we'd be bombarded with.
peggysue2
(12,511 posts)PINO:
President In Name Only
Yes, he can declare senseless war, exact damage and humiliation on his perceived enemies and turn the country upside down (for now) BUT . . .
He is acting in his own self-interest, greed and demented appetites. He has no sense of public service, likely sees all those who do as suckers and losers. He is the end product of gross inequality, hubris, arrogance and the worship of wealth and celebrityhood.
His only call to service is to his "paying customers." It's all he knows and cares about. Do his paying customers care about the man? No. Because they are of the same ilk. They care only about what they can wring from his shriveled carcass. Same goes for all those working for him kissing his piggy toes and ass. They've been drawn to the darkness and refuse to escape.
This moment will end. When it does, beyond the celebration, there will be retribution, searing screams for justice.
Because what this man and his Flying Monkey Brigade have done, here and throughout the world, is obscene. They know it which is why they're desperate to hang onto power.
They know what they've done. They know what's coming.
slightlv
(7,753 posts)What an exceptionally beautiful, intelligent sentence. And I will be among the loudest of those searing screams for justice!
Baitball Blogger
(52,228 posts)ForeGoneLegsBirne
(43 posts)...an errant line drive would be the more merciful outcome.
dflprincess
(29,318 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,430 posts)gfarber
(262 posts)There once was a Chief from D.C.,
In a war thick as bad LSD.
While the briefings screamed FIRE!
He said, Gas up the flyer
Theres a members-only tee time for me.
The Situation Room buzzed like a hive,
With colonels on caffeine till five.
But the Boss hit the jet,
With a donor-list set,
To a club where the martinis survive.
The pundits were pale in the press,
Maps bleeding with arrows and stress.
But the Prez took a swing
At the whole bloody thing
Said the greens in the south were the best.
In D.C. the alarms rang like sin,
War briefings stacked up to the chin.
Yet the motorcade roared,
To the runway it soared
Charge the members to watch me win.
There once was a weekend escape,
While the nation chewed fear like a grape.
Hed shake hands with the rich,
On a sun-blasted pitch,
Where the cocktails come tall as the drapes.
So the war room kept grinding its gears,
Full of whispers and satellite fears.
But the Boss chased the sun,
With the paying-guest fun,
And a driver that rang in their ears.
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Ilsa
(64,281 posts)BidenRocks
(3,181 posts)JD? Was that you?
Rob H.
(5,829 posts)LiberalArkie
(19,714 posts)Justice matters.
(9,704 posts)Goonch
(4,836 posts)
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,159 posts)Justice matters.
(9,704 posts)
CaptainTruth
(8,173 posts)...rich donors, so this is par for his vile course.
Jbraybarten
(242 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,999 posts)The orange gibbon and his entourage will be in one place along with plenty of the reasons why we are in this situation in the first place?
Anyone paying attention to this?
Because they should be.