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President Donald Trump spent early Tuesday night making desperate phone calls and blasting Fox News before midterm election results came in.

“I have the ultimate power — it’s called ‘veto,’” President Trump told CBS News in a phone interview before polls first began to close in some states. Already, Trump appeared to make excuses for a potentially massive Republican loss.

Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.

Trump had a particular grudge against Fox News Tuesday night, texting commentator Greg Gutfeld about his disdain for liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov.

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[–] Spiv@lemmy.world 2 points 14 minutes ago

Definition of a good day: Any day Trump is suffering

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 39 points 2 hours ago

a clearly frantic Trump blamed a potential Republican loss on everyone but himself.

Of course he did. 🤡

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

Don "Veto" Trumplioni.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 169 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (5 children)

I'm just happy he's suffering.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Any additional stress on him can only hasten the ultimate solution to his madness.

[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

And let him and his friends get off that easy? No way, try them all, convict them, send them to prison or the gallows, and claw back as much of the money they've gained at the expensive of the country as possible.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 6 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Even if he died he should still be tried posthumously, if only to give his victims closure, claw back some of the money he's stolen for those victims, and to insure his legacy as the most criminal president of the US is properly recorded. It will also be important for the cases against his collaborators.

[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 23 minutes ago

You can't try someone criminally posthumously, and the civil trial would not carry the same weight.

Let alone the media surrounding him would quickly disappear and his cronies could quietly fade from the lime light with all the money they stole.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

I'd prefer a prolonged suffering for him, both physically and financially, but for the betterment of the people domestic and abroad, I'll gladly take a quick ending and a posthumous charging of his and his families crimes.

It's not the justice he deserves, but it would be best for everyone in the short term.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 66 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Same, hopefully dying soon

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 26 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

No way. I want to watch him and his cronies squirm in court first. He can die after that.

[–] Feidry@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I don't care about making him suffer. There's been enough suffering because of him. I just want him to die and be rid of him for good.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Same, also I don't trust americans to not elect him again.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Theoretically, he can't run fir a third term

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 4 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

If he does, I hope Obama enters the primary.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

While it would be hilarious to watch the conservatives tie themselves into knots trying to figure out a way to make it illegal for Obama to do that while also making it fine for Trump that would ultimately be a very bad thing.

First it would add legitimacy to Trumps run, not that a lack of that would stop him, but why hand him free ammunition.

Second it would massively energize the Republican base, because while some may be tired of Trump, they absolutely loath Obama and would vote in large numbers for Trump just to deny Obama any possible chance of winning.

Third, Obama burned a lot of bridges during his two terms and is very much a figure head of the old guard Democrats that are just now losing their grip on the DNC to the actual progressives in the party. Bringing Obama back would be a blow to the progressive wing of the party that we most desperately need in power. Further a lot of Democrat voters soured somewhat on Obama, particularly in his second term, I'm not convinced having him on a ballot would bring more Democrats to the polls than the Republicans it almost certainly would.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago

Theoretically he can't do basically any damn thing He's done so far.

He seems like a danger to everyone every second he’s alive.

[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

or suffer a paralyzing stroke

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We've lost way too many good people to sudden passings... why the fuck is this miserable pile of shit still ticking?

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

He’s so slimy he keeps slipping through The Claw.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago

He has served well as the millstone around the Republican neck. Time for him to get a stroke over the vote results and croak.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 58 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.

Wait, didn’t he bomb them yesterday?

Two more years of this crap….

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 25 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe not.

The GOP civil war has started, its just a matter of who will fire the first bullet and when?

We've heard for years GOP congressmen HATE Trump. Now they see America HATES Trump too. Who (if any) will scramble to cross party lines to impeach and remove to save their own careers?

I mean, we shouldn't let them save their own careers, but we should let them act like there's a chance to appease us before we vote them out and (god willing) prosecute them.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

The founding fathers probably never expected things to go this sideways, but one of the features of seperation of powers was supposed to be that politicians would save their own skin and stop other branches from doing the wrong thing.

The problem is having captured all the branches, there was no sinking ship for the rats to flee. That has now changed, Trump has become a sinking ship

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Americans on the whole hate Trump, but there's still that core of 30-ish% who love him uncritically. They're all Republicans, which makes them around 60% of the GOP and more than enough to determine primary outcomes. It's hard to get nominated as a Republican without Trump, and now we see that it's hard to win with Trump.

I suspect that most of those cult members will just stop voting once their idol fades away. Maybe that will let the Republicans recover in 2030, but you just know Trump's going to be out for his base in 2028.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Let’s hope you’re right 🤞🤞

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

He probably means nuclear based because Tucker keeps rattling that particular sabre.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 8 points 2 hours ago

A pity that nobody can afford popcorn in this economy.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've been waiting for this for a decade.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

This is just the tease.

What we've been waiting for is impeachment, removal and prosecution.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago

No.

Don't impeach him, destroy his Project 2025 agenda first.

Get gas prices down, get food prices down, end the Iran War.

If you impeach the GOPs can play the 'it was just about Trump' card and come back.

If the Dems show they can actually lead, it kills the GOP forever.

[–] cruseo@piefed.world 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (7 children)

Not only do I seriously doubt he’ll be impeached, I’m quite certain there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to remove him if he does get impeached. it will be a monumental waste of time and effort. And it would change very little, because a President JD Vance would not be much better.

Instead, the Democrats should focus the next two years on investigating every single thing Trump, his family, and his cronies have been doing, and putting as many of them in jail as possible and completely neutering Trump for the next two years.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

I’m quite certain there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to remove him if he does get impeached. it will be a monumental waste of time and effort

What's changed since the last 2 impeachments? Other than a littany of additional crimes?

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I just don't know.

This cycle revealed that so many GOP candidates absolutely struggled because their base was split. They couldn't dissociate from Trump because the GOP base is the MAGA cult, but they lost all potential independent voters because they had to associate with Trump.

I wonder if there'll be a number of GOP reps who see the writing on the wall and turn on Trump to save their own careers. Trump will certainly not usurp democracy and get his 3rd term now, so they got less to fear.

Hard to say tho. Their behavior after Jan 6th isn't promising

[–] cruseo@piefed.world 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Well, I think it’s a matter of legislative priorities: do the Democrats want to blow their wad using their control of Congress to try to get Trump impeached and then removed? It would be a monumental effort with little chance of meaningful success.

Most Democrats believe it would be a much better expenditure of resources, instead, blow that wad dragging literally everyone else in the Trump administration before an investigative committee and possibly impeaching and prosecuting them instead. There is so very much to go after all of them for, that it would be a real waste of time and effort to let everyone else go just so they could go after Trump and probably not succeed in getting him removed.

Not to mention that it would be far easier to prosecute and possibly jail Trump after he is out of office.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 2 points 45 minutes ago

It is not a question of going after Trump's cronies or Trump himself. Not only are they obviously complimentary goals, but there is no "wad" to blow. Political capital is not the type of game where you spend a set amount of points and once those are gone, you need to wait for your next turn. They have serious momentum now; they have constituents waiting with baited breath to see if anything actually comes of voting en masse, and they need to be impressed.

Push harder for the release of the Epstein files. Push harder to immediately end hostilities with Iran. Prosecute Trump AND his allies, removing as many of them from office as possible. And still pass legislation that will tax the rich and help people make ends meet. These are all the things they got elected for, they can all be addressed simultaneously, and failure to do so will result in depressed turnout and bad outcomes in 2028.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly. Agreed.

While in office Trump is essentially immune to consequences - there's very little point in trying to go after him again.

But his administration and DOJ have been doing some very blatantly corrupt things for a while now, and their only safeguard was the Republican Congress refusing to do anything about it.

Now that the entire Congress is in Democrat hands, they're vulnerable - so going after them and essentially neutering Trump's tirade against democracy for the rest of his administration certainly seems the best path forward.

Though we've got the next two years to find out what's gonna go down.

[–] cruseo@piefed.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.

Trump 2.0 was so much worse than Trump 1.0 because this time around he surrounded himself by a cadre of sycophant enablers. Going after all of them will be easy, Pickens, and it’s not as if they don’t all belong in jail, too. Especially that Pete Hegseth motherfucker. I’m perfectly happy for Congress to impeach his ass. and then, of course, prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

And their replacements will have to be confirmed by a Democratic senate.

[–] cruseo@piefed.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

this also means no new Trumpy Supreme Court justices

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And then Americans think the Republican party is restored to "normal", and vote for an equally insane Republican again in 6 or 10 years.

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[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

Hopefully he'll finally blow the proverbial gasket.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 49 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fox News is liberal now, wow.

[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 42 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

“Liberal“ is anything the senile dear leader doesn’t understand or that bruises his soggy paper ego, so this case yes.

[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 36 points 3 hours ago

What a loser.

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