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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 249 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 49 points 2 months ago

I'm about to write a children's book up in this bitch

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

(*) Donakd J. Trump.

Or, if you go by his Press Secretary...

President Chump.

She keeps saying Trump as Chump, in official press conferences.

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[–] piskertariot@lemmy.world 158 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You don't have to sign your tweets.

Signed everyone. 2007.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think he signed this one just to prove that he can spell his own name right.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 118 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I guess truth social is now an "official channel" for international diplomacy. What a brave new world we live in

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

European leaders are still stuck on X, says enough about them too.

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[–] dumbass@quokk.au 93 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This dumb fuck really though he could bomb Iran and it would bring peace to the middle east, you just gave Israel the ball and they're gonna run with it.

He needs to go chill in a bunker.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was told it would. He was dumb enough to go OK. He didn't imagine this scenario.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 66 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"I HAVE SPOKEN!"

"Hey, guys, I have spoken, hear me? Guys? Hey, guys?"

"GODDAMIT, I SAID I'VE SPOKEN, HEAR ME? DO WHAT I SAY! I DEMAND YOU DO WHAT I SAY! HERE'S MY NAME!"

The Art of the Deal, indeed.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cartman has internal consistency and the ability to finish a thought.

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[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to count to 3, and I want everyone to do a ceasefire! 1. 2. 2 and a half. 2 and three quarters. I mean it!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 2 months ago

Everyone watch, he's about to TACO!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bold assumption that he understands fractions

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Woah is truth social not an effective way to conduct international relations or something? damn. I guess he'd better try Facebook

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, I thought Signal was the go to app for war plans?

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So this is what a grown man throwing a tantrum looks like.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol his toddler tantrums have been a laughingstock for years

https://youtu.be/s6rKa6Nc-qo

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

International diplomacy via social media in public. What a world.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

please tell me this is not real...

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 92 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Oh it's true, it's damn true.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago (6 children)

God it's worse than I thought. It reads like he's lost his mind.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Same as it ever was.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 months ago

That would require he had it once to get lost

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

WTF? A "friendly plane wave?" By bombers? Who told him that's a thing? That's not a thing.

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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

What a shitshow. 🍿

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The first two are like he's trying to manifest it

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually don't think he's manifesting it, I think he's narcissistically deluded and thinks if he says it then the sheer power of the U.S. Presidency (owned and subjugated to Donald J. Trump) will force them to stop. And then when they don't, he's pretty much having a mental break.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 21 points 2 months ago

Lol, friendly "Plane Wave". He's such a fucking child.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TF is a "Plane Wave"? Google leads me to physics papers and articles which I'm pretty sure is not what he meant.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That's the most baffling part. I never had a high opinion of the general populations intelligence. But you got to be a goddamn moron to be impressed by the current president. It's not hyperbole to say I've lost all faith and humanity.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago

Baby’s first diplomatic relations.

And boy is it a magnificent debacle.

Trump is at least consistent - fuck things up, then pause the fuckup to pat himself on his back and demand praise for not fucking things up even more. Then once the news cycle progresses, continue fucking things up even worse. He’s such a master of this fail technique!

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

IT ISN'T A CEASEFIRE UNLESS ALL PARTIES SIGN IT.

GORK, SHITPOSTER IN THE UNITED STATES

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did he add a "hereby" to his demand?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So bombing Palestinian children is okay but he draws the line at Iran?

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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DONALD ORANGE TURD I DEMAND YOU STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT AND LET US CLEAN UP THE MESS YOU MADE. SINCERELY MR KEKZKRIEGER FIRST OF HIS NAME, DEFENDER OF COOKIES SLAYER OF MILK

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

He really thinks he can just say shit online and have it happen because he demands it. If it worked that way, the world would have already been a smoldering ruin 10 minutes after the first Usenet board went up.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He spelled his name correctly this time.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

lol this is like when someone signs their text message as if it’s a letter

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

DOES HE THINK THE INTERNET IS A TELEGRAPH STOP IT IS NOT A TELEGRAPH IT IS A SERIES OF TUBES EXCLAMATION STOP

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If ISRAEL drops a Bomb they're going in TIMEOUT!

DONALD J TRUMP MANLIEST MAN WITH THE BIGLIEST HANDS

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