Sure, whatever. The man has spent his entire life avoiding the consequences of his actions. Why would this be any different?
I wish them all the best of luck, but I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for this to be any different.
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No, but this time we have him dead to rights, on a recording
~~soliciting help from Russia~~
~~threatening political opponents over free speech~~
~~pressuring the governor of Georgia to commit vote fraud~~
~~admitting to assaulting women~~
~~using the DOJ to attack opponents~~
~~being a total racist~~
.... I forget, what are we talking about again?
Also, he can't feel shame or regret, not in the way most of us do. The reflection pool thing was, in his mind, NEVER his fault, and it'll always be someone else's fault. He's got an infinite money bucket and enough political power to make sure he doesn't need to actually come close to actually colliding with reality.
Maybe he'll get a five minute time out
This shit is just a distraction.
I don't give a fuck about this pool. A year ago no one did.
Talking about this stupid pool like "oooh they really got him with this one". No they don't. More importantly, I don't want to get him for the fucking pool. I want the media to get him for all the child raping, corruption and blatant disregard for the rule of law.
I dont give a fuck about a fucking pool.
No one cares about the pool. The pool is just a public display and emblematic of the stupidity and the insane amount of corruption in The White House. Just look at the list of offenses:
- Waste tens of millions in taxpayer dollars on a completely unnecessary renovation for the sake of vanity, after cutting billions in funding across a vast array of vital federal services for "waste, fraud, and abuse".
- Skirt the congressional approval process by declaring some sort of "emergency".
- Give the contract to one of his personal friends, financial donors, and a convicted felon who has zero qualifications.
- Renovation costs from taxpayers skyrocket past initial projections.
- Felon with zero qualifications predictably fucks it up castrophically.
- President drives a fucking motorcade over the freshly-painted surface for...what fucking reason?
- Trump sicks federal resources on PUTTING PEOPLE IN FUCKING PRISON in an incredibly ignorant attempt to save face.
- His own administration declares that there was no wrongdoing and he immediately publicly lambasts his own fucking people for not being able to make a judge hallucinate into a conviction in his alternate reality, while possibly becoming disbarred or themselves charged with a crime.
#7 being the most aggressive and offensive. Like I can't stress how alarming that is. He's willing to imprison people over a botched renovation rather than admit he made a mistake. That's some North Korea shit.
That’s some North Korea shit.
That's worse than North Korea shit. Say what you want about Kim, but he at least would have strapped that scummy contractor to a cannon rather than give him a few million dollars.
I don't care about the pool either. It's the throwing the DOJ at an innocent bystander that gets me. However after all these years, I think we can conclude that the Epstein files will never tank Trump. If the Repubs can't take down Clinton with them, they truely do not care. Enough information has now been released to understand that Epstein was most likely a CIA/Mossad operation from the beginning so will be protected as a "national security" issue which means a US governments covert operation to blackmail influential people around the world to do their bidding. There isn't a level low enough that the US won't stoop to it to do their dirty work around the world. I remember when people were outraged by the Iran Contra deal and then it turned out to business as usual for the good old US of A.
It's a stupid fuck up like we've come to expect from him, but I'm much more concerned about the damage he's doing to American democratic institutions than to American monuments.
Exactly this. If there is one scandal trump would want us all to concentrate on and forgot all other ones is exactly this one.
Yeah but wouldn't it be funny if after all the evil things he's done, what they finally get him for is something stupid
This was buried, but this happened right after the non-compete contractor coated the pool. I think it was the day after. Trump decided to take his motorcade through it.
President Donald Trump took an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” He did more than just see it — the president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement. The new blue coating will hide the pool's gray stone, a color Trump said was “never good.” The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.
Yeah lemme just drive a 20000lb Cadillac Escalade across this soft stone pool bottom that was painted less than 24hr ago. What could go wrong.
They must be much, much heavier than stock because of all the bulletproofing.
They are nowhere near 20k lb. stock LOL. Maybe 6k.
The Beast is much heavier than a Hummer EV at 10,000 lbs. >20,000 lbs is plausible. The Beast must withstand driving over a bomb, and withstand 50 cal bullets. According to this article, it does in fact weigh 20,000lbs. It's a tank designed to look like a car.
so 5,000 lbs per wheel would definitely ruin a plastic surface.
I said stock. That's also not the vehicle they drove. That one looks like a much larger Escalade.
Still a tank. When you are the world's biggest asshole, you drive around in a tank. Still listed at 20,000lbs.
A stock Escalade IQ is 9,000 lbs.
The Escalade IQ is an EV, which this most certainly is not.
I remember that. And now, as I did then, I wonder WTF was he even trying to accomplish or say. Driving on it seems disrespectful to it. At least it's not like they drove on the tomb of the unknown soldier, but y'know.... it still feels just wrong.
At least it's not like they drove on the tomb of the unknown soldier
Not yet at least.
yeah, yeah, I know, "don't give them any ideas".... heh
Driving on it seems disrespectful
Let me introduce you to Donald Trump
lol, yes, quite so.
Exactly this. This is the guy that has a burning need to put himself smack dab in the middle of everything. Sometimes literally.
Everywhere you look this asshole is trying to insert himself. People probably wanted some kind of donnie-free distraction with soccer even if FIFA is corrupt AF as well - nope, this asshole put himself there, too. He wants his stupid mug on our money and our passports. His mug on our government buildings. His name on an arts center. He wants his name on airports....
It is the least surprising thing that in the middle of him bragging about getting an "American flag blue" reflecting pool this dumbfuck was going to want some bigly photo op involving HIM and, oh yeah, this pool here underneath my car...
What I don't get is why every single story doesn't mention this and have pictures/videos of it above the fold, if not in the headline.
I mean, clearly, this maladminstration was proud of this performative bullshit, so they should not complain if the "liberal media" reiterates, on every single mention of this debacle of his, that he drove on the fucking thing?
That's why I post it every chance I get. I remembered the story go by and had to make my own gif of him doing it. It was really hard to find a video mentioning it too. Seriously, share this far and wide. Trump did the damage to the pool.
Sounds like it's time for him to do some serious self...... reflection.
Seems he's gotta ... peel back a few layers .. to really get to the ... bottom of this.
You know that the AI pics of himself are what he sees in those self-reflections.
That implies there will be consequences of some kind
Even worse that nothing happening? Oh no
Participants in this frame-up will be held to account.
I'll believe it when I see it actually happen.
There were photos circulating for a day or two after the pool was drained, purporting to show tire marks, but later arial photos of the pool don't seem to show anything so clearly. I was hoping he was going to get caught extra red handed this time, so his supporters would have to go drive their cars into swimming pools in solidarity.
Nixon was brought down by the cover-up of a small crime, so you never know what will be the trigger. Follow every loose thread all the way to the start, and sooner or later something will gain traction.
publishing cope like this is so sad