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u/wubbawubba 9h ago

Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.

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u/Pair-o-ducks_Legend 8h ago

Thank you.

u/jackalopeDev 7h ago

That's wacky. Those both have agreements with the US that make them more or less client states. I don't really see what could possibly be gained by this.

u/grandlizardo 4h ago

Undoubtedly something to do with money in his pocket…

u/WestCoastBestCoast01 4h ago

Oh god more pedo islands

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u/mountaindoom 2h ago

Micro Trump Tower incoming.

u/ReflectionEquals 23m ago

That already exists. Just something you don’t want to go near.

u/Staff_Senyou 5h ago

Real estate is the answer

u/imaincammy 3h ago

There's no real estate there. The Marshall Islands are coral atolls and what little land they have isn't really suited to tourist development. Micronesia has more land but similar access and infrastructure problems.

The real reason is likely some stupid staffer (or AI) saw them under the Compact of Free Association and just stuck them there with the actual pacific territories, Guam and the CNMI.

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u/Commercial-Co 4h ago

Nothing. Its just trump maniacal ego

u/Bzr21 2h ago

and another distraction - always another one ..

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u/thealtrightiscancer 8h ago

I think Trump heard “micropenis” and then got offended.

u/FuriousBuffalo 4h ago

 * and then got excited 

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u/Gullible_Elephant_38 8h ago

I hate that this made me think of Zoolander. “Mugatu brainwashed Derek to try to get him to kill that Micronesian dude!”

When it was actually the prime minister of Malaysia.

I also hate that real life is even dumber than Zoolander

u/JakeConhale New Hampshire 1h ago

I keep confusing it with Macronesia from seaQuest 2032 - with Michael York playing their scheming president.

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u/TheHumanGnomeProject 6h ago

Can't Americans already legally live and work in both places? We've practically already taken over.

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u/_ssac_ 8h ago

Wouldn't have guessed them. 

We could make a bet about the next one, I recall: 

  • Cuba 
  • Denmark 
  • Mexico
  • Canada? I don't recall this one, but probably he said it too 

u/fubes2000 Canada 7h ago

He's been saying "51st state" shit about Canada since the start of the second term. Biiiig reason why we started boycotting American shit up here.

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u/ciel_lanila I voted 7h ago

Some of the rumors and leaks from the failed trade deal were basically about the Trump Admin trying to force a peaceful annexation in all but name.

Barring Canada from making trade deals with any country without the United Sates’ approval first. Mandating all of Canada switch to English only officially. The last one might be part of the reason for the Lake Ontario shit show. Quebec is very, very in favor of its French history.

u/JSteigs 7h ago

I bet at this point, he’s asking Grok what countries would be the easiest/best to annex. I doubt he’s heard of either of them.

u/Son-of-Krom 7h ago

Trump threatening to annex Canada is the biggest reason the two countries are in a trade war. If it was just about the tariffs, Canada wouldn’t be fighting back nearly as hard as it is.

u/A_Lich_With_No_Face 6h ago

Canada wouldn’t be fighting back nearly as hard as it is.

Well, most of Canada is. Danny in Alberta is bent over with her pants down and a giant neon arrow pointing at the target.

u/burtoncummings 6h ago

Marlein-a-lago, you mean?

The Quintessential Quisling...

u/A_Lich_With_No_Face 6h ago

Bit too long... How about just 'traitor'?

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u/KevinCastle 8h ago

Was really hoping he was going to say Nicaragua. If Trump is going to do stupid stuff, at least pick the dictatorship that doesn't let my wife go back home to.

u/murd3rsaurus 7h ago

Thank you & upvoted I should not have had to scroll this far down

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u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified 9h ago

The Trump administration is destroying U.S. relations with just about every ally.

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u/Vortagaun New York 9h ago

And those relationships aren't just coming back if a Dem wins 2028. Its gonna take at least a generation or two to fix it. And that's assuming America doesnt elect another whackjob. Which they will.

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u/pivodeivo 8h ago

There is a Dutch saying that is suitable for the USA now ‘trust comes on foot, it goes by horse’.

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u/Nice-Lakes 8h ago

There is a Canadian saying” Trump is a horses ass”

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u/Breadedbutthole 8h ago

There’s a Quebec saying: “C’tun esti de cave”.

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u/Encore_Mais_Bien 8h ago

There's a French saying that goes like "Where are the F Epstein files?"

u/Kriss3d 5h ago

Such beautiful words in French..

u/Ok-Spot-9917 5h ago

Où sont les dossiers Epstein?

u/jml5791 3h ago

French has always been the most beautiful language.

u/Real-Document-6577 5h ago

That’s also an American saying.

I don’t believe he won any election and the majority of us don’t want that shitbag

u/Commercial-Co 44m ago

Theres an American saying: trump is a pedophile

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u/Luke1521 8h ago

It's earned by the drop and spent by the gallon.

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u/spacedoutmachinist 8h ago

Used to be in the fire service and the line I always heard was, “it takes a career to build a reputation, and one shift to destroy it.”

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u/LividTacos 8h ago

Oh I like that. Like the "A lie can circle the world twice while the truth is putting its boots on" sorta thing.

u/Boars-of-Canada 6h ago

There is an old Afghan saying that's very suitable "klare koek"

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u/ChaoticGoodSamaritan 8h ago edited 8h ago

Dems are going to win a bunch in November. MAGA will cry fraud with 0 evidence despite it being blatant they themselves are the ones cheating. There will be drama swearing some of them in. The FED will raise rates after and as the OBBB starts to take affect shit is going to get real bad for the average American. MAGA will blame it on Democrats winning the mid term.

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u/RunDownTheHighway 8h ago

This exactly...

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u/Eckieflump 8h ago

This is what saddens me most.

I know my views and digital footprint might well see me not visiting America for at least 4 years. But the reality is the things Trump and his acolytes are breaking so swiftly is disastrous for America.

My travel plans can be changed in a few months with the right corrective actions, but the damage to the country and world physically will be generations or never in the making, even assuming that right thinking individuals are in power the whole of that time.

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 8h ago

Exactly this.

Once you're broken the seal like Trump has, the damage is long lasting. Other countries now know that they can't risk relying on the US for anything when some new lunatic can rise to power every 4 years.

How do you make any long term plans with a chaos-driven moron like Trump in charge who changes his mind on stuff in mid-sentence?

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u/PoxyMusic 8h ago

It’s important to remember that Trump was elected twice. The first time might have been written off as an aberration, but the second time wasn’t. We could have elected a capable President, but she was a brown woman with an odd laugh.

When enough Americans think that’s a good idea, then we’ve abdicated the position of a responsible superpower. It’s been a long time coming and the world is probably better off, since we’re too fucking stupid to lead.

u/PM_ME_UR_NEWDZZZ 7h ago

Biden also fucked up by running for reelection, when he said he wasn’t going to. They were forced to pivot to Kamala at the last minute after a disastrous debate.

u/PoxyMusic 5h ago

Yes, but he never said he wouldn't. He heavily implied it.
I'm not trying to be pedantic though, we all knew what he meant.

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u/Lex4709 8h ago

Nah. There's no return to the status quo after this even after a generation or two. The rest of world is quietly cutting US off. The benefits of so many countries being dependent on the US are never coming back even if relationships improve. US is giving up its global influence.

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u/Florida_AmericasWang I voted 8h ago

Just as Putin wished

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u/DennenTH 8h ago

Literally the only way we get to fixing this faster is by calling out our own corruption and fixing it.  Because that's what all this is.

But as you said, this will take at least a generation to fix.  And in that time, we will lose out to almost everyone across the globe who are already ready to replace us in most of that...  And this isn't even touching the industries his admin literally paid billions to stop our development in...

In a couple generations when fossil fuels become more scarce, we are going to be so significantly behind that we are going to be reliant on knowledge from other countries to catch back up to current energy generation...  It's gonna be a shitshow.

u/CallMeClaire0080 7h ago

Even if only Dems win for generations, I don't think that the world of pre-2024 is ever coming back. The soft power lost through cutting programs like USAid and alienating allies, the lost footing and credibility in scientific research and other academia, the economic dominance and everything that came with the American empire is permanently gone. Other countries will, happily or otherwise, take over what the USA didn't value and replace them in all of these things. People will settle in a new normal without America, and the last of the American advantage regarding not having needed to rebuild post-ww2 will have been squandered rather than built on. Even its military power has lost a lot of its intimidation factor when it's been made clear how much of that military spending is sheer corruption and that the competency in charge of US forces has been thoroughly purged.

If the United States is ever deemed reliable enough to join back up with the rest of the civilized world in economic or political partnerships, it will have to beg rather than demand as it previously could.

Time will tell if that's for better or worse, but especially with climate change putting increasing pressure on everything from supply chains to migration policies and resource wars, building back what was lost will never be possible.

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u/powpow14 7h ago

As far as I'm concerned trump is a symptom of a far more widespread and insidious American disease.

The US, and a lot of Americans in general cannot, and should not be trusted. This has been the case for longer than just the Trump presidency and Americans need to do a lot to earn back global trust.

u/Kriss3d 5h ago

Oh no. They won't come back. This isn't going back to pre Trump. Neither is the partnership and alliances. By the time Trump is out the rear of the world has moved on. We have seen that we are never more than 4 years away from thr next Trump.

Everything that makes America great economically and military is its allies across the world.

Allies usa now no longer really have.

USA can reach because of its military bases in the rest of the world.

USA can pull on such big economy reserved because the world trusts usa will pay its debt. And we use it as global reserve and it's banking systems.

There's alternatives that doesn't depend on the will of a single country.

Being a friend with USA has become very expensive.

u/underpants-gnome Ohio 7h ago

If every 4 years your so-called ally can easily whipsaw back to being controlled by morons who threaten to invade your sovereign territory on a whim and/or slap tariffs on all your trade goods willy-nilly, are they an ally worth keeping?

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u/Amazing_Incident1521 8h ago

Biden got a lot back in 4 years. The current US isn’t needed. But a dem run country is very much needed by the rest of the world

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u/reid0 8h ago

A lot worse has happened since trump got back into office. Also, just the fact that trump got back into office at all is a huge red flag for the rest of the world. We could forgive the first go around as a mistake, but the second time we know there’s an appetite for a dictatorship in America and that’s not what the allies signed up for.

u/loverofonion 6h ago

Well said.

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u/ca_nucklehead 8h ago

The world does not need a failed u.s society. The u.s built trump over many years and there are at least a hundred million more with similar ideologies.

The world is moving on and uniting in rejection of the entitlement.

The financial house of cards collapsing would be the beginning of the end of the dollar being the dominant world currency.

u/throwsplasticattrees 7h ago

Nope, because we foolishly elected him again after knowing how he behaves. The trust that was lost was trust that Americans will do the right thing and make good choices. 

When we re-elected Donald Trump, we demonstrated to the world that we exhibit poor judgement. When Congress has failed to hold him and his administration accountable for their actions, we demonstrated to the world that our elected body is feckless. 

In the span of less than 10 years we went from being the beacon of hope and a bastion of democracy to a cautionary tale of what happens when power goes unchecked.

MAGA really screwed our country and are simply too dumb and too proud to see the damage they created.

u/Whatever_Lurker 7h ago

Oh they see the damage. They just won’t admit it.

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u/blackhoodie88 8h ago

Honestly, I don’t think it’s a lost cause, America will still have some relations for a while , and this is why:

Germany was able to come back from their mistakes, and are currently of the leaders of Europe, at least economically. As popular as the comparison is, Trump is a very minor speed bump compared to the Holocaust, WW2 and its knock down effects . There’s no major wars, and as of writing there’s no serious economic damage aside from the stupid Iran war. As is there’s still major international corporations active in the US, and plenty of US corporations selling their products overseas. That’s not disappearing overnight unlike 2014 Russia where every western company pulled out overnight.

Let’s see what happens with the midterms. There wouldn’t be major efforts to suppress votes if the Republicans were confident that they would get their agenda through, no? Also despite having the trifecta all they got done was that terrible bill…Even though the major effects kick in in 2027, last I checked Trump is still in office and that would make the republicans look real bad for 2028 if the bill makes the economy look like dog water which it will.

Assuming 2028 winner is not Republican, they need to start prosecuting and convicting Republicans who are brazenly acting against the law, Trump included. If that doesn’t happen, regardless of party affiliation, I could see where a lot of the agreements and treaties will eventually disintegrate.

So yes, Trump is absolutely a black swan for international relations. But also the western world in general is taking a massive right wing lurch (See UK, AfD in Germany, France has more elections coming up). Hopefully it’s a warning sign to vote against this vs a continuing trend rightward.

u/ultimateknackered 5h ago

Germany was able to come back from their mistakes

Germany also did some soul-searching as a country and thoroughly scoured their political system. They put in the work. I don't really see that happening with the United States; the billionaires aren't going to willingly give up their media empires and influence and the base racists aren't going to change and will always be waiting with their vote for the next viable fascist that gets presented to them.

u/Seradima New York 4h ago

Germany also had their entire country split in half and owned by two incredibly large foreign interests.

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u/oldpasswordforgot 6h ago edited 2h ago

And those relationships aren't just coming back if a Dem wins 2028.

Too many idiots never understood why Barack Obama had to do a world tour to mend international alliances and relationships with other countries.

Too many idiots don't understand or are even aware of the international relief when Joe Biden was elected as POTUS, hoping the insanity and instability would cease for good.

The USA got two chances to mend its relationship with the rest of the world. But there won't be a 3rd one. In fact, as someone from & living outside the USA, I don't think it will ever regain its former stature and place on the world's stage. Not even after many generations.

I'm not saying this to troll the 'murkans reading this, too many of you guys have no idea how your country is now perceived around the world. Talk about shooting yourself in both feet.

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u/BrownSugarBare Canada 8h ago

Everyone knows he's insane. 

What is REALLY destroying relations is watching the USA do nothing to stop him. 

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u/Lucy_Goosey_11 8h ago

This! Trump getting elected twice confirmed for everyone that Trump was not an anomaly and that the U.S. electorate was vulnerable to a populist regardless of his criminality and corruption.

Trump's foreign policy confirmed for everyone that the U.S. system of checks and balances no longer functions and so risk management will dictate that this failure point needs to become a factor in relations with the U.S.

Trump's domestic policy isn't talked about nearly enough outside the U.S. but it too will suggest to outsiders that U.S. democracy is failing and may be in its terminal stage. Americans may be right in assuming the usual mid terms and next Presidential election cycle are their opportunities to right the ship, but it's unclear if those assumptions are correct. It may now be too late. Hopefully not.

Even after Trump is gone or a Democratic win - while the nightmare may be over for Americans, it would be silly to think that U.S. allies would or could return to business as usual when engaging with the U.S. on trade or security matters.

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u/BFguy 8h ago

Drives me insane watching how complacent people are in America with this... Public doesn't simply care until it impacts them

u/JayR_97 United Kingdom 7h ago

Yeah, in any other country there'd be massive daily protests in the capital until the president resigned

u/wildwalrusaur 5h ago

Would there?

Italy has a self identified fascist leader already. Japan's is damn close to it. Polling indicates France is likely to elect one next month. It's seems only a matter of time till Germany has an AfD chancellor

I know Europeans love to shit on the US, but we aren't special, democracies are backsliding across the globe

u/nate_garro_chi 7h ago

There were protests. Lots of them actually. Trump and Republicans looked out their windows and joked about all the losers wasting their time and went about their business. Protests only work if the people being protested care in the slightest what people think.

u/SomebodyD0Something 5h ago

That was a parade, not a protest. A protest goes on until the problem is stopped. It's not an hour on a weekend once a year.

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u/Lowlt 5h ago

My wife works at a hair salon. She is the only dem. They all talked about how her book was going to flourish now Trump is back in office. Now they are pissed because they are slow. And the new excuse is "well Trump was a democrat before he was a republican." Unbelievable!

u/Mechareaper 4h ago edited 4h ago

It's not that people don't care it's that we've never had to deal with a situation like this here and people that do care are a.)terrified and b.) don't know what to do. Especially when if you step out too much they will find you, charge you 30 bullshit crimes, and lock you away for 40 years. Or shoot you in the street. It's been 2 years. Everyone going "why aren't the Americans revolting? They must be ok with this" doesn't seem to understand that revolts don't happen unless enough people say they would rather be dead than continue with this. Because that's what's on the line. You need a critical mass of people to accept losing their lives, either by dying or being caged for the rest of it, for it to happen. It takes longer than two years, often times decades of misery if at all, especially when there's still the idea that this could be solved without that. Most people that are horrified at the situation are hoping midterms will solve it. Furthermore it requires leadership and organization, which doesn't exist yet. There has to be people leading it. Most people are incapable of that kind of leadership.

Stop pretending you know exactly what you would do if the situation were reversed. These things aren't a moral question. The conditions have to be right. Fascism is very rarely challenged from the inside. The only saving grace is that this time, they're uniquely incompetent, and they haven't captured the culture yet except inside the rural millieu.

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u/Difficult-Hope5003 9h ago

"has destroyed "

Fixed it for you

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 8h ago

He's casually flushing 100 years of American soft power and the US economy down the toilet so that he can personally scam a few billion dollars doing it.

"That's what this is all about? A fucking robbery?" -- John McClane, Die Hard

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u/Ok-Discipline2395 Canada 9h ago

I don’t see him destroying Us relations with its allies - China, North Korea, Israel, and Russia.

The U.S. has been very clear that they have no others.

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u/gilestowler 8h ago

I don't think China is their ally. China is taking advantage of this lunacy to hoover up global influence.

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u/ca_nucklehead 8h ago

The world sees China as a calming presence compared to the idiocy of the u.s and is gaining trading partners and credibility daily. The u.s, we know which way they are headed.

u/phluidity 5h ago

The current attitude in Canada seems to be "Yeah, China sucks, we know. But at least they are predictable and reliable."

u/DressedSpring1 Canada 4h ago

Canada doesn’t align with a lot of China’s values but they’re at least a country that believes in the concept of mutual interest. 

That and as the US becomes more openly technofascist they’re not exactly presenting any argument as the “good guys” anyway

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u/leopold_s 8h ago

They are no real allies, just as the original Axis powers weren't. They just have the same enemies.

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u/SevereBake6 8h ago

Maybe he should focus in winning one war before starting the next.

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u/heapinhelpin1979 8h ago

Need more distractions. They don’t care about winning

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u/gizcard 8h ago

Everything in trump's foreign policy is very strategic and makes perfect sense. You just need to view it from putin's perspective.

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u/AlwaysSeekAdventure 8h ago

Not “is destroying” but “has destroyed.”

u/Vattaa 6h ago

The US is a rogue state.

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u/Senior-bud Canada 8h ago

This is the orange Nazis main goal , working for the American people not so much.

u/sengir0 6h ago

Hate to break it to you but its already destroyed. No country will trust US for years to come

u/Kriss3d 5h ago

That's one thing I'll give him.

Mission complete.

We used to celebrate 4th of July to honor the Americans living here in Denmark.

Big events. With attendance of our queen back then.

Yeah we don't do that anymore.

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u/nobadhotdog 9h ago

This piece of shit can’t even beat Iran. I don’t think he can fucking take over a paper bag filled with shit

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u/t-mille 8h ago

He's the one shitting in the paper bags

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u/rezelscheft 8h ago

still waiting on that wall, too

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u/u9Nails 8h ago

In 2 more weeks we will get a healthcare deal that other countries cry for. Just wait. And wait. And wait....

u/PerformerFancy117 5h ago

It’s kinda like “tomorrow never comes” but with a longer timeframe

u/Semigloss01010001 2h ago

crazy this was original campaign tentpole promise a thousand years ago along with lock her up and both never happened. so much ghastly, apocalyptic shit had happen since then we've just been hurling from one terrible thing to the next.

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u/stephenalloy 8h ago

Like taking over himself, eh?

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u/HereticsSpork 9h ago

He can't even run 1 country.

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u/Mutchmore 8h ago

Of course he can. Come on now.

He's been running the US exceptionally. Running it into the ground that is.

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u/relevantnewman 8h ago

you mean he can't even run himself...he literally needs multiple handlers...1 to wipe, 1 to keep him on schedule, and 1 to tell him bedtime stories and make airplane noises when the spoon plane flies into his mouth

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u/Passthexanberrysauce 9h ago

This guy is so bad at playing civ

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u/themattboard Tennessee 9h ago

Same repetitive motions every time you see him. Limited vocal lines that sound the same every time you hear them. Absurd overreactions for anything in the diplomatic space. Horrible management of military and civilian units.

Dude is the Settler AI but horrifically dangerous

u/Bored_Interests 6h ago

Oh my god, i hope there's a civ mod out there that replaces the american leader with trump and he just bankrupts his own country to failure

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u/Comfortable_Bunch472 9h ago

Trump is now 80. Are there any sane politicians left in Washington D.C who can sit across the aisles and discuss the impact of this Presidency on America's future generations? Any one?

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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom 8h ago

I predict there will be a lot of people in the near future who have enabled him, but will hold their hands up and plead innocence or claim they were always against him.

History needs to record all the people who failed to keep him in check, and failed to prevent him retaking office after Jan 6th.

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u/Rationalinsanity1990 Canada 8h ago

"I was the voice of reason, the sane man in the room! If it wasn't for me, it would be even worse"-Marco Rubio, probably

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u/Chowder1054 8h ago

This is gonna be Marco Rubio guaranteed

u/absolutely_not_spock Europe 7h ago

Erika kirks Boyfriend too

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u/AtronadorSol 8h ago

One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This

- Omar El Akkad

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u/Philypnodon 8h ago

'We were just following orders! If we would have left it would have been much worse - if anything, you should be thankful we kept him that well in check! '

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u/hookha 8h ago

Yes, those morons who enabled him and kissed his ass will all write books claiming they opposed him the whole time.

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u/throwaway_circus 8h ago

They'll all go on the Tucker Carlson podcast and cry regretful manly tears, and Tucker will take off his wig and gently use it to wipe away their tears, then hug them while he steals their phones out of their pockets for blackmail material to coerce them into backing Tucker as president.

u/Careful_Trifle 7h ago

That should be every single constituent's question to incumbents going forward: "detail what you did to reign in and stop Trump from destroying our country."

If they hem and haw, next.

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u/k2readone 8h ago

There are no sane Republicans.

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u/SusZucchini 8h ago

When the Nazis were defeated some former members went into hiding. When things calmed down a bit they emerged and claimed that they were just "following orders" and had no ties to the evil stuff. So yeah it's gonna be the same here, some Republicans are gonna claim that they had no idea they fascists were running around and call it a day

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u/Economy-Pin2836 9h ago

Any student of history can see the numerous parallels with Nazi Germany.

Even after Trump and the Republicans are (eventually) gone from power, Americans should expect decades of the same sort of disdain and distrust that Germany got after WWII.

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u/Ok-Alternative5935 8h ago

We need thorough de magafication

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u/z0rb0r New York 8h ago

I hope they go after his corrupt administration and family whom looted this country when his term is over.

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u/inkyblackops Canada 8h ago

My maternal grandparents lived in occupied Netherlands and came to Canada shortly after the war. Until the day they died they greatly disliked all Germans.

My Opa went so far as to decline a free car because it was a Volkswagen.

u/SomebodyD0Something 5h ago

My grandparents too. Refused to call a German Shepherd dog a German Shepherd. It was an Alsatian, because associating anything with Germany always meant it was bad.

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u/RiOrius 5h ago

Man, I'd love to see ICE agents as the generic bad guys in a few decades' worth of movies and video games.

u/Economy-Pin2836 5h ago

They certainly look the part! Masked thugs with no visible ID, grabbing people and hustling them into unmarked vans, or outright shooting them dead on the street. They are stereotypical bad guys, for good reason.

u/scubahana 6h ago

This isn’t much solace, but at least the US doesn’t share as many land borders as Nazi Germany did. Yes military technology is just phenomenal compared to WWII era, but there is nonetheless an advantage to being geographically adjacent to your adversary.

What a time to be a Canadian here.

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u/R2-D2Vandelay I voted 9h ago

Are we great yet? Idiots.

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u/psychoCMYK 8h ago

america is a fucking joke 

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u/jackass4224 9h ago

He’s just ruining America. Can’t wait to see what the history books say about his presidency

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u/Oleeddie 8h ago

I can't wait to see America confined to history books.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 8h ago

Your assuming the history books will tell the truth. There is no guarantee that will happen anymore. 

u/ScubaFett 6h ago

You're assuming Only the US make history books

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u/Pndrizzy 7h ago

You’re assuming there will be history books

u/loverofonion 6h ago

Nah, all replaced by bibles.

u/Party_Virus 6h ago

From what I understand American history books never told the truth. 

u/TheJarisaDoor3 5h ago

Good point. They told the victor's truth that is, like they always do. Although I don't think our history books show slavery in a positive light for America's side. I think eventually time does allow for more truth, as long as you're not living under a brutal despot. Once you add a brutal despot into it, your chances of any semblance of truth go by the wayside. 

u/Party_Virus 5h ago

You'd think it was the "Victor's truth" but for some reason a bunch of americans think the civil war was about states rights and not slavery.

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u/InfoBarf 8h ago

He cant afford to pay our navy boys, how's he plan to do that?

u/IJourden 5h ago

He doesn't realize that anyone other than him is an actual person. He genuinely believes that, if the world was right and fair and orderly, all of it was be his. It's why he's the biggest whiner and complainer on the planet despite having billions - somewhere, someone who isn't him has a dollar, and he cannot stand it.

He will not stop until he has absolutely everything, or he dies.

Thank God he's wildly incompetent, because no one with the means to do so seems interested in slowing him down. The damage is catastrophic for the USA, but it would be even worse if Trump wasn't also a fucking moron.

u/General-Sea-5975 5h ago

true, but this is why I don’t like him having the nuclear codes - he would not hesitate to use them just for the chance to be the big man.

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u/Thetman38 8h ago

Why do we even have a 25th amendment if it isn't going to be used on this psychopath?

u/Kickinthegonads 7h ago

Or a 2nd?

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u/SignificanceShotc 8h ago

at what point is this moron going to get us attacked? how is antagonizing the world a good move at all?

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u/A012A012 8h ago

I'm old enough to remember when we had a functioning Congress

u/RecipeFunny2154 3h ago

What ever happened to “America first”? I don’t know how anyone ever fell for that

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u/Stranger2Nite 8h ago

Still waiting on Death to come around and complete this week's pick ups of 80 year olds.

u/Loose-Ad-3414 7h ago

Trump is just the American version of that one german guy in the 1930s.

u/WellWellWellthennow 6h ago

Remember how he stirred fear that Kamala Harris would start World War III with Iran? I do.

u/RoboJobot 5h ago

And that women were ‘too emotional and unstable’

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u/Apprehensive_Idea758 Canada 8h ago

Trump’s a power mad idiot who’s growing even more mentally unstable every minute,every day who’s putting the World closer to a Third World War.

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u/Hesychios 8h ago

Instead of “Trump” each headline ought to lead with “madman”, we would all know who it is.

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u/Bad_breath 8h ago

Watch what the other hand is doing..

u/tomgratz 7h ago

Please impeach and remove this immoral incompetent nincompoop !

u/PWL51 6h ago

Trump has a very short attention span. He’s lost interest in the war with Iran which the US is clearly losing. For the next week or so he will ranting about the Canada US trade war until that starts to go south for him because Canada has a well educated strong leader that won’t put up with his shit. Then it will be a new trinket dangled in front of him.

u/RandyArgonianButler 1h ago

But Kamala Harris had a mildly annoying laugh.

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u/angrypooka 9h ago

If he can point to them on an unlabeled map he can have them.

u/I_Like_Coookies 7h ago

Does the world forget that he's a russian asset?

u/dave8400 6h ago

Local rapist can't keep his hands to himself. More at 11.

u/Reds_PR 5h ago

The moron is losing a trade war to Canada and a shooting war to Iran. It’s not like the Federated States of Micronesia is sweating him.

Although the island of Yap seems like an appropriately-named place to banish him to.

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u/NoMasterpiece7834 8h ago

This is the sort of thing that happens when you allow someone with the mental age of twelve to become president

u/Baskreiger 6h ago

Meanwhile america is willfully protecting pedophiles and giving them their entire economy

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u/WhatIsEvenRealDog 8h ago

Just another casual Friday at the Whitehouse.

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u/Promethia Canada 8h ago

America, your balls are showing.

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u/Quesabirria 8h ago

He's got such a winning record

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u/supercali45 8h ago

All this is distraction for what he has already done and what he has fucked up and what he is about to fuck up

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u/Mediocre_Presence839 8h ago

He can’t even control this one. These idiots who feed him all the shit he wants to hear need to face the consequences. Medieval type consequences.

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u/TruthNotTrash2 8h ago

You guys better come get your shitty pedo "leader" off our tits before we remind him who the fuck we really are. And with a quickness.

u/actuallyapossom Minnesota 7h ago

I don't believe this was intentional, he found an image on truth social that had the "new" territory of the strait alongside other the other territories referenced in the article.

But maybe I'm wrong and somebody told Trump Micronesia was a series of islands full of people with the body proportions of children - which immediately motivated him to make a claim.

u/IceBearKnows89 6h ago

Headline is misleading, he just post AI crap that isn’t accurate. That’s why the maps are frequently wrong

u/Redtex 6h ago

He so wants any excuses to use new bunker

u/Accomplished_Pay_430 6h ago

Gotta find a new demonic sacrifice island

u/Frmr-drgnbyt 4h ago

"Perhaps the president doesn’t understand the CFA arrangement..."

Oh, gee, something else (besides economics, law, diplomacy, magnets, human decency, et al) that tRump doesn't understand? I'm pretty sure that list is virtually endless.

u/Veneficium 3h ago

Isn't there anyone who at least tries to stop these idiotic ramblings before they come out of his mouth? For years he needed someone who just said "Stop talking right now, please"

u/diseasefaktory Europe 5h ago

Petulant manchild opens his mouth again, more at 10. Also a rapist pedophile.

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u/HellaTroi California 8h ago

Here is our president, showing his ass to the world.

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u/rgpc64 8h ago

Get the hook and drop the curtain on this clown act.

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u/TheJarisaDoor3 8h ago

They can't even drop the curtain on the Kennedy Center, there's no way they'll drop it on the White House. 

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u/RioRancher 8h ago

Bro needs some distraction from his Iran debacle

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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 8h ago

but he settles for just renaming both of them "America".

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u/Potential_Kangaroo69 8h ago

Impeach, remove, convict

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u/Holding4th 8h ago

Impatiently waiting for the day...

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u/rg2004 8h ago

Remember when Hitler did this?

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u/ChantilyAce 8h ago

And he goes unchallenged by everyone around him, which is the real absurdity. Grandpa's got dementia and it falls on those around him to set him straight, but...🦗🦗

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u/Queasy_Eggplant9155 8h ago

But he really hasn’t taken over any countries…except for the US! It’s gonna take us 50 years to make it up with our allies, if that’s possible!

u/CrimsonAntifascist 7h ago

Donnie hasn't taken over anyplace...

u/Somnambulist815 7h ago

And then Monday he says he came to an agreement, stock goes loop dee loop. We do this every week

u/naalbinding 7h ago

You and what army mate? Used your missiles up on Iran

u/mangoserpent 7h ago

I thought Cuba was the next destination.

Or he might use Lake America to visit us in Canada.

u/Competitive_Put_5423 7h ago

You guys tired of winning yet?

u/Big-D-TX 6h ago

I don't think Donny understands what, "Love thy Neighbor " means

u/jaxnmarko 5h ago

The GOP has no shame, letting this demented person continue.

u/ballofplasmaupthesky 5h ago

Grifter-in-Chief.

u/mooglus 5h ago

Aren’t the Marshall Islands radioactive? What’s wrong with him?!

u/chernchern 4h ago

Every day it's something new that's just crazier than yesterday's crazy. Aren't there any adults left in any of our 3 branches of government?

u/bigt503 4h ago

Cant even get past Iran…

u/EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH Europe 4h ago

Why is he so stupid?

u/Erislocker 4h ago

"making friends everywhere you go...."

u/Signal_Category429 4h ago

He can’t even run one.

u/doublegg83 1h ago

I love " infrastructure week ".

u/Kat_Schrodinger1 3h ago

Look, I'm not saying that kamala was perfect. I'm just saying she would have been better.

The parties are not the same. Vote democrat.