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dweller

(28,771 posts)
Sun May 31, 2026, 03:58 PM Sunday

Donald Trump knows he's in serious trouble

HEATHER DELANEY REESE
MAY 31, 2026

At 8:15 this morning, the President of the United States began panicking in front of the entire world. For more than seven hours, he posted nearly 50 times. And when he finally slowed down, it would stand as one of the most revealing fits of rage of his presidency to date. Because what he shared was beyond any reasonable person’s comprehension.
He complained that because China has a ballroom, he should have one too. He posted an image of a “Trump Peace Prize” bearing his own face. He repeatedly compared himself to George Washington. He shared an image of himself kissing a flag. He shared a heroic fantasy image of himself depicted as the God of War that said, “YOU’RE GETTING DISCOMBOBULATED.” And most concerning of all, he repeatedly called for a federal judge to be investigated, impeached, and removed from the bench, placing both the judge and his wife in danger by putting a target on their backs before an already radicalized base of loyalists.
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And we cannot say this part quietly, because the title in front of his name is the whole point. This is not a troll on the internet. This is not a man yelling into a void from his basement. This is the President of the United States. This is the one human being on the planet who commands the most powerful military, who holds the nuclear codes, who can move markets and topple governments and start wars on a whim. When a man like that names a judge and a judge’s wife and tells millions of followers they should be ashamed, investigated, and jailed, the distance between a post and a real human being in real danger collapses to nothing. There is no one above him to send it up the chain to. He is the chain. And the entire world is watching him spend a Saturday this way, our allies and our adversaries alike, all of them now asking the same question every American should be asking, which is whether the person with that much power over their lives is well enough to hold it. These are dark days for this country. They are dark days for the world. And it is a strange and frightening thing to live through a time when the most dangerous instability on earth is not a foreign army or a failing economy, but the mind of one man posting cartoons of himself for nearly 7 hours on a Saturday.
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And I keep coming back to one thing tonight. Never before have we seen an American president behave like this. Not in a country founded on democratic norms, not in our lifetimes, not in any lifetime we can point to. There is no modern equivalent for this, no American equivalent, for this level of instability, corruption, and sheer insanity playing out in public day after day. To know that there are people beside him taking his wildest fantasies and turning them into digital hallucinations for him to share is its own kind of betrayal. And then there are the people who still claim to follow him, who cannot keep pretending that any of this is normal, because it is not, and somewhere underneath this unimaginable spectacle, they know it too. He cannot keep going like this. A man does not spend his day the way he spent today unless something is wrong. What we are watching is a man in cognitive and physical decline doing it in front of the entire world. And one day soon, we are going to have to come to grips with something even harder than the posts themselves, which is that there were likely medical professionals who knew, who put their names to words like “excellent” and “fully fit,” and who covered for him anyway. We are going to have to reckon with how many people looked straight at this and chose to call it normal. How many looked straight at it and called it healthy. How many looked straight at it and chose loyalty over truth.

Because here is what today actually showed us, underneath the noise. This was not strength. A man in command of himself and his country does not spend seven hours of a Saturday begging the world to see him as George Washington. The judge did his work calmly, in writing, on the law, and it held. The President spent the day melting down at him in public, in front of everyone, in front of the whole world. One of those is what lasting, real power looks like. The other is what it looks like when power can feel itself slipping and cannot stop grabbing at the air. We have not seen him this exposed before. The mask he used to keep up, the one that hid the worst of it, is gone, and a man who has to insist this loudly that he is well and powerful and beloved is telling us, without meaning to, exactly how unwell and how unsteady he has become …

much more at the link , with several of the Pisswig’s insane posts

https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/donald-trump-knows-hes-in-serious





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Donald Trump knows he's in serious trouble (Original Post) dweller Sunday OP
Doesn't shithole binge post everyday around ..... Lovie777 Sunday #1
Trump is too far gone ... oldsoldierfadingfast Sunday #22
It was attributed to Abraham Lincoln, at least in the 70's, As my memory serves.. bobalew Sunday #33
I suspect that one of his writers is Stephen Cheung, his Communications Director. Lonestarblue Monday #54
He's out of his frikken mind bif Sunday #2
They don't care. He's a white male. ananda Sunday #12
I just didn't realize how bad we were f'd. Katinfl Sunday #14
Seems likely his 'minions' are also making millions for themselves via insider trades and general graft Attilatheblond Sunday #38
Will his party ever notice? young_at_heart Sunday #3
They're in it for the grift. They know he's an insane criminal. They suck up to him to get what they want. diane in sf Sunday #5
When I try to say anything to a republican Tree Lady Sunday #8
This is spot on Tree Lady, they believe he doesnt mean any of it as they laugh it off. ScubaSteve Monday #48
I doubt it. Trump (imo) is one of the least self aware individuals I have ever viewed in the public space... wcmagumba Sunday #4
You hit the nail on the head moose65 Monday #55
His cognitive decline was obvious in his first term.. agingdem Sunday #6
All true but everytime I think he can't go any further he gets and pass and then gets worse.... joanbarnes Sunday #7
Almost every year a group of non-partisan historians and political experts... Escape Sunday #9
The rankings will show him next-to-last and dead last FakeNoose Monday #46
Nah, he ust knows he's surrounded by incompetent boobs Warpy Sunday #10
The utter failure of the media to do its job and the utter cowardice of the Republican Party... johnnyplankton Sunday #11
Same stuff we have been hearing for ten years sarisataka Sunday #13
The emperor has no clothes and many can see it -- but not enough, at least not yet. Fil1957 Sunday #15
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Sunday #16
I try to read Heather dweller Sunday #21
Human history is rife with cruel, sadistic, greedy and incompetent leaders. These guys can only get power with the Fil1957 Sunday #17
Recommended. H2O Man Sunday #18
I think he knows dweller Sunday #20
Exactly. H2O Man Sunday #24
I think you and dweller are both right. calimary Monday #43
Does his followers really give a shit Figarosmom Sunday #19
Keep in mind that a lot of his 34% approval raters never pay attention Justice matters. Sunday #26
Your words are quite true. chouchou Sunday #28
The Day of Dementia is upon us Blue Owl Sunday #23
A must read. dalton99a Sunday #25
When the vote is taken on chump's sanity, BidenRocks Sunday #27
He should be arrested people Sunday #29
Never before have we seen an entire political party castrated and brought to heel by a madman dlk Sunday #30
This is a must-read; the whole thing at the link. Amaryllis Sunday #31
BillionaireBoyzClub found the perfect mush brained ego maniac grifter to give NoMoreRepugs Sunday #32
But we still have to, anyway. calimary Monday #42
He's manic. Mme. Defarge Sunday #34
He's criminally psychotic Akakoji Monday #52
If I may quote professor Vinkman: "The usual stuff isn't working." Wounded Bear Sunday #35
Yes indeed. calimary Monday #44
He reminds me of Homelander tward th end of 'The Boys''. Lokilooney Sunday #36
Yeah, I expect him to declare himself god any day now Bettie Monday #49
Lying 🤥 Donald Trump is in very poor health Miami Blue Sunday #37
Immutable . . . Aussie105 Sunday #39
lol hueymahl Sunday #40
LOCK HIM UP... Totally Tunsie Sunday #41
He's Dying Dawson1008 Monday #45
Does she point out that many of Chump's followers on Truth Social and Xwitter are bots? FakeNoose Monday #47
Well said, I started a reply similar to this the other day blue_jay Monday #56
"These are dark days for this country. They are dark days for the world" BlueWaveNeverEnd Monday #50
trump is not well LetMyPeopleVote Monday #51
If congressional republicans had more sanity and morality Mtnmama Monday #53
I totally agree with you. But until we rule the House and Senate our hands are pretty much handcuffed. Fla Dem Monday #57
As his eggshell ego collapses, things could get even scarier... pat_k Monday #58
MS Now-Trump's attention span is a huge problem for his Iran crisis LetMyPeopleVote 6 hrs ago #59
MaddowBlog-Trump's self-declared reputation as a world-class dealmaker continues to collapse LetMyPeopleVote 4 hrs ago #60

Lovie777

(23,954 posts)
1. Doesn't shithole binge post everyday around .....
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:04 PM
Sunday

3am?

Hasn’t shithole been off the rocker for sometime, and doesn’t he also have post writers too.

22. Trump is too far gone ...
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:47 PM
Sunday

to know a word such as 'obfuscation'; much the less, be able to spell it. There are a few errors that he would normally make when he was typing his own stuff that someone else is now using to make us believe that it was him.
As has been said before, "You can fool some of the people all the time; and all the people, some of the time. But, you can't fool all of the people, all of the time." (PT Barnum, I think, too lazy to look it up).
Point is - don't let yourself be fooled. And to answer your question - Yes.

Lonestarblue

(13,578 posts)
54. I suspect that one of his writers is Stephen Cheung, his Communications Director.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:49 AM
Monday

Trump does not have the cognitive skills to come up with some of these posts, so people like Cheung and perhaps Miller have been set loose to write these asinine posts, not to mention that Trump has the attention span of a gnat. He does nothing for seven hours.

bif

(27,311 posts)
2. He's out of his frikken mind
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:13 PM
Sunday

And has been for quite some time. But his minions are too afraid to do anything abut it. Like I said when I heard he was reelected:"We're fucked".

ananda

(35,609 posts)
12. They don't care. He's a white male.
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:58 PM
Sunday

The whole purpose of the Republican party
is to make this country and everything in it
all white all the time, with the males ruling.

Attilatheblond

(9,378 posts)
38. Seems likely his 'minions' are also making millions for themselves via insider trades and general graft
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:49 PM
Sunday

Kickbacks on federal contracts to pals seems likely too. There is probably so much opportunity for obscene and possibly illegal, financial gains that it makes sense some of them post in his name to keep their profitable version of Weekend at Bernie's going. No way they are gonna kill their golden goose by doing the 25th Tango. Seems likely the doctors are in on the feeding frenzy too. Why wouldn't they be? It's only money.... OUR money

young_at_heart

(4,066 posts)
3. Will his party ever notice?
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:24 PM
Sunday

Every time they show his cabinet praising his "wonderfulness" as they go around the table I find it hard not to cringe. How on earth can they do this??

diane in sf

(4,260 posts)
5. They're in it for the grift. They know he's an insane criminal. They suck up to him to get what they want.
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:46 PM
Sunday

Tree Lady

(13,405 posts)
8. When I try to say anything to a republican
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:52 PM
Sunday

They laugh and say he is just sticking it to the democrats, he doesn't mean any of it. They really believe that.

I guess they would have to or not follow him anymore.

ScubaSteve

(122 posts)
48. This is spot on Tree Lady, they believe he doesnt mean any of it as they laugh it off.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 07:34 AM
Monday

Says he's gonna start a a war with Iran, naw he'll never do it.
Says he's gonna raise tariffs on everyone and they'll all cow tow down to him, naw he'll never do it.
Says he's gonna reduce the size of government by firing 1/3 to 1/2 of all federal employees, naw he'll never do it.
Says he's gonna have a military parade in Washington like North Korea/China, naw he'll never do that.
Says he wants his face on coins and our currency, naw he'll never do that...

They do not really believe he will do all the crazy shit he posts daily. And then he does it, and they just laugh,
since he's just putting it to the dummocrats.

wcmagumba

(6,709 posts)
4. I doubt it. Trump (imo) is one of the least self aware individuals I have ever viewed in the public space...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:31 PM
Sunday

Geez, the guy thinks he is God...so no, he has no idea of what he really is or what others think of him...

moose65

(3,464 posts)
55. You hit the nail on the head
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 11:41 AM
Monday

I don't think he's aware of it. He truly thinks that he's smarter and more qualified than anyone else. He really thinks that he's up there with Washington and Lincoln as one of the best Presidents. He believes it!

I remember in his first term, after less than a year some reporter asked him what grade he would give his administration up to that point. Of course he said "A+." He's never gonna admit to a mistake or admit that people don't like him. He's not capable of doing that.

And the most disgusting thing - he truly believes that he is some great, good-looking stud, and that the womenfolk can't resist him (gag).

agingdem

(8,991 posts)
6. His cognitive decline was obvious in his first term..
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:48 PM
Sunday

we heard him say if doctors stopped testing for covid then covid would go away..he suggested drinking bleach and injecting disinfectant as a covid cure…he threatened judges/lawyers and their families, he napped through his 34 count felony trial..he called women reporters ugly, stupid, pig, dog, horse face…he said Somali immigrants were eating cats and dogs…this was never normal thought…but there were a few grownups around him who could in some way reign him in…

So the difference now is he’s untethered, surrounded by incompetent enablers getting rich off his greed…enablers who pander/encourage/implement his delusional psychotic spew…


joanbarnes

(2,141 posts)
7. All true but everytime I think he can't go any further he gets and pass and then gets worse....
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:52 PM
Sunday

Escape

(534 posts)
9. Almost every year a group of non-partisan historians and political experts...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:54 PM
Sunday

releases a ranking of all the presidents. Trump was dead last in the last one. Seems like Obama was in the Top Ten and Biden was about 14th.

Trump is a much , much worse president now than he was in his first term....

Can't wait for the new rankings to come out. THAT will send him into a lifelong fetal position mental breakdown.

Warpy

(114,732 posts)
10. Nah, he ust knows he's surrounded by incompetent boobs
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:55 PM
Sunday

and keeps thinking it would all go away if they'd let him do it all himself.

johnnyplankton

(664 posts)
11. The utter failure of the media to do its job and the utter cowardice of the Republican Party...
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:58 PM
Sunday

...are the stories that will be remembered. If there is a history. He still has the nuclear codes....

sarisataka

(22,877 posts)
13. Same stuff we have been hearing for ten years
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:07 PM
Sunday

He's in trouble
People have to notice
His supporters are leaving him
...

And he's still there.

dweller

(28,771 posts)
21. I try to read Heather
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:35 PM
Sunday

on a regular basis , and hope more here will also .
She stays busy covering him


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Fil1957

(927 posts)
17. Human history is rife with cruel, sadistic, greedy and incompetent leaders. These guys can only get power with the
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:28 PM
Sunday

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support of a large number of supporters. Could there be something wrong with us, the human species, since we keep putting these deranged individuals into power over and over again?

H2O Man

(79,341 posts)
18. Recommended.
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:29 PM
Sunday

While it is certainly true that he has been an asshole who has splatter the internet with insults and threats, it is possible to view this as similar to the past ..... but I think it shows something important. While many sociopaths are seemingly immune to stress, there is a level of threat to their well-being where they freak out. Might be for fifteen minutes, might be fifteen days or weeks.

The fella in the White House has had periods like this. It increases the internet splattering, pointing the finger of blame outward, threats, and even having someone fired from his administrations. We've seen this. However, it is important to recognize that he has not lived a particularly healthy life style since he first announced he was running in 2015. Organicly speaking, human bodies tend to experience declines at his age, even among once-strong men. And this fella has never been a strong man.

Thus, in many ways this is just more of the same shit-splattering. But it is important to recognize the inevitable decline of his body from head to toe, and the clear distinctions between his first-term, confident splatterings, and his second-term rants as the war in Iran and its global consequences having him feeling trapped and paranoid. The reduced capacity we are witnessing actually make him more dangerous.

dweller

(28,771 posts)
20. I think he knows
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:34 PM
Sunday

His days are numbered , and he is getting more and more desperate


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H2O Man

(79,341 posts)
24. Exactly.
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:07 PM
Sunday

He is trying to avoid focusing on the war against Iran. He knows he is lying to the public when he claims the U.S. is winning. The attack did not result in a lessening of the stress the Epstein files had caused him. The three day war that Netanyahu promised him has not resulted in the "glory" the president believed he would enjoy. He knows that Netanyahu purposely lied to him, to get him to go along. Then Iran fights back. As Rubin would say, that knocked the fuzz right off the peach.

What he is doing is as much of a threat to this country as was the Civil War.

calimary

(91,041 posts)
43. I think you and dweller are both right.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:34 AM
Monday

And I bet he’s aware that increasing numbers of people are losing faith and confidence in him, and his effectiveness as the “infallible warrior “ he fancies himself to be.

All happening as he feels older, less all-powerful, and more vulnerable. THIS isn’t supposed to be falling apart for him. NOT for HIM! Everything is supposed to work out beautifully for him, over ANY challenge OR challengers.

And it’s not working out the way he thinks it’s supposed to.

Figarosmom

(13,885 posts)
19. Does his followers really give a shit
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:29 PM
Sunday

Rather his name is on the Kennedy Center or not. Do they really care enough to kill over it? It's not like they'd ever attend anything there.

Maybe someone might try something just to get the attention of their lord and master and to get their share of the slush fund.

To tell the truth I'm surprised that jd hasn't seen this as a chance to sabotage trump and take over. He seems just like that type of guy.

Justice matters.

(10,129 posts)
26. Keep in mind that a lot of his 34% approval raters never pay attention
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:14 PM
Sunday

to "politics" (a lot are just too busy making ends meet or too lazy to care, or even too stupid to understand anything other than football, WWE "wrestling, baseball of UFC fights).

Anything "politics" or "policies" or what not does not penetrate their thinking. They vote Republicrooks because their parents voted Republicrooks, or because their church tells them the Democratic tickets are evil Communists... or what else: They will never ever cast their votes for other pols than Republicrooks, even if they'd lose everything they have because of their vote.

That's what's most scary about the fool on the hill.

chouchou

(3,360 posts)
28. Your words are quite true.
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:36 PM
Sunday

His followers would be much happier at a dog-fight than attend a concert at the Kennedy center.

Blue Owl

(59,734 posts)
23. The Day of Dementia is upon us
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:04 PM
Sunday

Every goddamned day this insane fuck isn’t locked in a padded cell….

BidenRocks

(3,561 posts)
27. When the vote is taken on chump's sanity,
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:27 PM
Sunday

anyone voting for chump must also be insane and removed.
It is a violates our National Security to allow this to continue.

people

(851 posts)
29. He should be arrested
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:41 PM
Sunday

Putting a target on the back of a judge who ruled against him and his wife is awful. Unacceptable. Criminal. Someone in the gov't has to stop him.

dlk

(13,374 posts)
30. Never before have we seen an entire political party castrated and brought to heel by a madman
Sun May 31, 2026, 06:55 PM
Sunday

And we have a mainstream news media that for the most part goes along for the ride.

It’s heartbreaking.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,259 posts)
32. BillionaireBoyzClub found the perfect mush brained ego maniac grifter to give
Sun May 31, 2026, 07:00 PM
Sunday

them the keys to EVERYTHING. Not going to be easy to get back to anything remotely resembling normalcy IMO.

Akakoji

(577 posts)
52. He's criminally psychotic
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:07 AM
Monday

His actions are killing people in the US and around the world. Every. Minute.

Wounded Bear

(64,728 posts)
35. If I may quote professor Vinkman: "The usual stuff isn't working."
Sun May 31, 2026, 07:46 PM
Sunday

Not enough idiots left who haven't seen his shtick and will fall for it.

All he has left is the raw power of his office, and the people - us - are fighting back when he overreaches.

calimary

(91,041 posts)
44. Yes indeed.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:42 AM
Monday

It’s all downhill from here, for you, Donald. NOBODY’S gonna want you to try for a third term.

It’ll be most interesting to watch what impact the upcoming midterms have on Trump and his carefully constructed “aura of invincibility”.

Bettie

(19,933 posts)
49. Yeah, I expect him to declare himself god any day now
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 07:42 AM
Monday

he makes being in the US terrifying.

I wake up every morning, wondering what new fuckery has happened overnight with that feeling of imminent doom in my stomach.

It's not good for me, but not looking at news (through the DU filter) is worse than knowing what's going on.

It feels like we're under siege with no relief.

The worst part is knowing that there are people out there who are 100% behind every single thing he does or says. I live among them and they are profoundly stupid.

I escape into video games or books, where things might get bad, but in the end, good wins over evil.

Seems that doesn't happen in the real world anymore.

Miami Blue

(391 posts)
37. Lying 🤥 Donald Trump is in very poor health
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:03 PM
Sunday

To be honest, I'm completely relying on the observable swelling of his hands, ankles,
and legs and a prominent bruising on his
neck.

He has Non-Vital = his body is failing
to sustain life ✔︎

Non-Cognitive=He has dementia, and probably Alzheimer's, disease like his papa, and a disorder which makes him act with impulsivity✔︎

Bad lab results✔︎

Bad Cholesterol conceivably over 200
because of his addiction to devouring
junk food 🍔 🍟 ✔︎

He is a severe cardiac patient ✔︎

Bad Lipids aka Bad Cholesterol, have been
piling up in his blood vessel walls. ✔︎

Poor Lying 🤥
Don the Con
Sad





Aussie105

(8,240 posts)
39. Immutable . . .
Sun May 31, 2026, 08:49 PM
Sunday

Future historians will be discussing the current situation at length, and decide the problem doesn't reside with Trump as a single individual as such.

It lies with those who think there is something in it for them personally, and those who think America's position in terms of military, religious and moral superiority, as well as being in a dominant position in trade and global economics, is immutable.

They are blind to the current situation.
It's all slipping away.

How do you run an 'intervention' for a whole country?
Isolation seems the only option, to stop the current American Disease from spreading further.

Trump will be gone soon enough.
The damage he has done and the delusions he has fostered will take generations to set right - if it can be done at all.

Totally Tunsie

(12,092 posts)
41. LOCK HIM UP...
Sun May 31, 2026, 11:15 PM
Sunday

I don't care if it's for his crimes or his mental status.

Either way, just LOCK HIM UP!

Enough.

Dawson1008

(6 posts)
45. He's Dying
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:55 AM
Monday

He knows he’s dying and is happy to take anyone and everyone in the world with him. If the military doesn’t stand up to him, nukes are next.

FakeNoose

(42,625 posts)
47. Does she point out that many of Chump's followers on Truth Social and Xwitter are bots?
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 07:20 AM
Monday

I think we spend more time on DU analyzing (and agonizing over) Chump's crazy posts than any of the MAGAs do. These are the ravings of a crazy old man who pays his staffers to write them because Chump himself is too lazy or unable to write coherently. Well, somewhat-coherently. He actually assigns the social media writing to Stephen Miller and others on his media staff.

So who is actually reading them? Most of the "likes" and "thumbs-ups" and "hearts" that he receives on his rave-posts are the result of bots that are literally non-human. They are programmed to like everything he posts. I can't be bothered to read this junk and I really don't care what he posts. He's just massaging himself anyway.

It seems the only ones who actually read them and write comments are the lib/Dem political analysts who have made it their mission to broadcast this old man's ravings to the larger group. Well OK, whatever floats your boat. But nothing in those daily posts will ever persuade me that Chump is anything close to normal or lucid. To me (and most of us) it's just further proof that he needs to be impeached and removed from office immediately.

blue_jay

(298 posts)
56. Well said, I started a reply similar to this the other day
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 01:21 PM
Monday

but never finished. Glad you did. It is a traumatizing tactic to keep us on our heels and stressed and also gives the air of false popularity because most don't realize the extent of the bot component.

Mtnmama

(170 posts)
53. If congressional republicans had more sanity and morality
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 09:19 AM
Monday

Than insanity and immorality in them, we wouldn't be in this situation. And the majority in the Supreme Court, too, for granting him so much unchecked power

Fla Dem

(27,809 posts)
57. I totally agree with you. But until we rule the House and Senate our hands are pretty much handcuffed.
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 01:29 PM
Monday

pat_k

(14,054 posts)
58. As his eggshell ego collapses, things could get even scarier...
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 02:27 PM
Monday

Hard to imagine worse than the current level of insanity, but as he becomes more unhinged in the coming months, trumpublicans in the House and Senate may finally begin to face the reality that the felon is incapable of making the necessarily humiliating deal with Iran that will paint a giant L for Loser on his forehead.

If enough do, they could try to get him to resign for "health reasons" or some other face-saving escape from his monumental, criminal debacle. All bets are off at that point.

The thing is, the escalating global and domestic harms and chaos of the war are utterly unsustainable. But we have a guy in the WH who is constitutionally incapable of accepting a loss. He will continue to demand a "better deal" that doesn't mean recommitting to Obama's treaty, shoveling 10x the amount of money at them that Obama did, and an "environmental fee" (i.e., toll). But there is no better deal. There is no way out that isn't effectively a declaration of surrender and declaration that ripping up the treaty was beyond idiotic.

Sooner or later his "loyalists" will stop kidding themselves that the war will magically be resolved "any day now "

If they manage to push him out and J.D. makes the deal, he could be so pissed that the felon put him in that position that he releases all the Epstein files with Trump redactions removed.

Who the hell knows?

I sure don't, but these are strange times. And strange times breed unexpected turns of events.


LetMyPeopleVote

(182,829 posts)
59. MS Now-Trump's attention span is a huge problem for his Iran crisis
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 06:18 PM
6 hrs ago

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Trump’s attention span is a huge problem for his Iran crisis

'Trump’s attention span is a huge problem for his Iran crisis', www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Ohio Bikedude (@rholt.bsky.social) 2026-06-02T20:17:29.270Z

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-tehran-peace-talks

During an interview with President Donald Trump on Monday, CNBC reporter Eamon Javers inquired about the state of U.S. talks with Iran, asking the president, “Do you think the negotiations are over now, or is this a bluff?” The question came in light of reports that Iran is pausing peace talks with the U.S. because of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.

“I don’t care if they’re over, honestly,” Trump replied. “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring. They were giving us what we needed, but I think I think they handled the negotiations poorly. It took too long.

It’s a good summary of why Trump is uniquely ill suited to execute the peace deal he so desperately needs — and how his short attention span constantly bungles his political aspirations.....

Trump is saying aloud what reporters from The New York Times and The Atlantic have been documenting in interviews with his inner circle: The negotiations are testing his short attention span. That’s an ominous sign for any future peace deal.

Diplomatic negotiations to end wars are inherently tedious, exhausting exercises. They require patience, attentiveness to details, the ability to wait out an adversary’s bluffing, and a constantly evolving assessment of the other party’s interests and power. In this case, it also requires the U.S. to rein in Israel, which has political and geostrategic interests distinct from those of the U.S., and seems to have an endless appetite for dropping bombs in the region.

President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran took 20 months of negotiations. Trump’s negotiation process for ending the war and coming to an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program kicked off less than two months ago. And there are a number of reasons to think it won’t be particularly swift — Tehran mistrusts Washington more than ever as it has now twice been the victim of U.S.-Israeli bombing campaigns in the middle of negotiations over its nuclear program. And Trump has killed off the people in Iran’s government who would have been most amenable to constructive negotiations, as well as made its power structure more decentralized and slower-moving. If he’s already bored with the process, that’s a deeply troubling sign.....

Trump has mastered — and has been rewarded by — the attention economy throughout his political career, and his political identity as an entertainer was key to his rise. But those same qualities also make him worse at getting things done. Tearing systems apart, bullying people with lawsuits and reconfiguring federal agencies is not the same as accomplishing lasting legislation or negotiating extensive international peace deals. The war with Iran is Trump’s biggest test yet. And his proven lack of focus, interest and patience is a weakness the global community can ill afford.

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60. MaddowBlog-Trump's self-declared reputation as a world-class dealmaker continues to collapse
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 08:19 PM
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As Iran backed away from the negotiating table, one longtime observer raised an underappreciated point: “Trump is perhaps the world’s worst negotiator.”

As Iran backs away from the negotiating table, it seems like a good time to highlight an underappreciated fact:

Trump is a spectacularly bad negotiator and dealmaker - and has been for years - Republican hype notwithstanding.
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Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-02T18:05:39.412Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-deals-iran-negotiations-really-dont-care-very-boring

Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump boasted that a “peace” agreement with Iran had been “largely negotiated,” and the world could expect to learn more about the breakthrough deal “shortly,” officials from Tehran effectively walked away from the negotiating table. The American president with a notoriously short attention span told CNBC, “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” adding that he thought the protracted talks had become “very boring.”....

It led Joe Cirincione, the vice chair of the Center for International Policy and a longtime expert on nuclear policy, to highlight an underappreciated observation: “Trump is perhaps the world’s worst negotiator.”....

But has anyone seen any evidence at all that Trump has had any success as a political dealmaker? The hype is certainly obvious and ubiquitous — I could retire if I had a dollar for every Republican who has referred to the president’s ghostwritten “Art of the Deal” — but proof that bolsters the partisan assumptions is elusive.

As The Atlantic’s David Graham explained last week:

Donald Trump’s reputation and political career were built on his dealmaking prowess, yet the president keeps demonstrating that he is a terrible negotiator.

Repeatedly over the past nine years, Trump has gotten rolled by counterparts during high-stakes exchanges. North Korea, Russia, Russia again, China, and China again have gotten the better of the United States. Trump has had to slink back to Washington without much to show except empty talk about friendship with whatever dictator has just run circles around him. He’s had some success in brokering agreements when acting as a third party (though not nearly as much as he pretends) but much less luck when his own government is a participant.


Unfortunately, the problem isn’t limited to foreign affairs and international diplomacy. As a candidate in 2016, Trump told Fox News, “The problem with Washington, they don’t make deals; it’s all gridlock. And then you have a president that signs executive orders because he can’t get anything done. I’ll get everybody together.”.....

But the evidence of Trump actually succeeding on this front does not exist. There were literally zero instances in which he successfully brought Democratic and Republican leaders together and negotiated a major legislative breakthrough during his first term. Indeed, after a few years in the White House, Trump largely gave up on even trying to make deals with Congress, and in his second term, we’ve seen more of the same.

The Washington Post reported in August 2020, “The president who pitched himself to voters as the consummate negotiator and ultimate dealmaker has repeatedly found his strategies flummoxed by the complexities and pressures of Washington lawmaking.” In a related Post column, Jackson Diehl explained, in reference to Trump, “He’s not up to serious negotiation. He can’t be expected to seriously weigh costs and benefits, or make complex trade-offs. He’s good at bluster, hype and showy gestures, but little else. In short, he may be the worst presidential deal maker in modern history.”

trump is a horrible negotiator and gets bored too quickly to make a deal.
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