It’s the lunchtime bulletin on the BBC News channel.
Lyse Doucet is being asked to comment upon the latest semi-coherent ramblings from the orange idiot.
With an admirably straight face, she shifts slightly in her chair and gathers her thoughts for a second or two, finally saying, “In recent weeks it’s been increasingly difficult to make any sense of the statements coming from President Trump”.
At this point, a mouthful of freshly brewed tea is expelled from my mouth through pursed lips in the general direction of my keyboard.
In one short sentence of quiet understatement she has raised the perplexing puzzle of why Trump isn’t seen for what he is by those whose job it supposedly is to look after the United States Of America – his government.
Are they all blind? Are they all dim? Are they all in it for what they can personally get? Are they all just Christian religious nut-jobs on a par with the Ayatollah brigade?
What was it he said? “Now’s your chance to get rid of this regime” I think it was.
How long before the rest of the world can can offer the same thing to the citizens of the USA? Can’t happen fast enough.
Well in a democracy which the US apparently still is, then you have to wait for elections. The mid terms this year should reduce his power, although get ready for “Election stolen” headlines. Hopefully he would then be a lame duck president for 2 years if he lives that long
He could be removed under the 25th amendment but given the decider are as deranged as he is that is unlikely. Maybe impeachment after the mid terms?
I think impeachment might happen, but like last 2(?) times unlikely to go through as I think it needs a 2/3 majority or something
The Republican Party is still in his thrall and there’s been precious little dissent as long as his extraordinary popular appeal still connects. Although I think the cracks in the dam are now beginning to widen, such as that Director of National Intelligence chap Joe Kent who threw in the towel today, warning that the deranged moron had been essentially bamboozled by the Israelis into the Iran debacle and that Iran did not pose an immediate threat.
I was only half-listening but, according to the R4 news this morning, the orange man-baby said (twice) that the UK had promised to send two aircraft carriers. Only one is in dry dock and the other is on the way to the antarctic, or something.
Anyhow, he’s a liar and he’s lied again.
He wouldn’t know an aircraft carrier from a frigate, even if it was parked up his arse.
I wish someone would try that…
“Christian religious nut-jobs” is a perfect description of the orange liar’s government
Partly because the media – even the less than pro-Trump New York Times – don’t call him out.
The slightest error in speech by Biden had Fox News and other right wing outlets demanding his removal from office as unfit to be President. Yet day after day Trump demonstrates how incapable he is of continuing as President, but not even a raised eyebrow at his demented ramblings.
I suspect once Putin/AIPAC/whoever is pulling the Trump strings have had enough, he’ll be out. Til then, he’s their useful idiot.
Yes.
His increasing dementedness is a great distraction from their manoeuvrings.
After the Mid-Terms, win or lose, Trump will be eased out.
Or he’ll be a stroke/heart-attack victim.
He thinks people with ‘learning disabilities ‘ should not be allowed to be president. Hmmm.
From the Independent
President Trump makes ableist claim that Gavin Newsom’s dyslexia means he should not be president
President Donald Trump is once again attacking California Governor Gavin Newsom over his well-documented struggle with dyslexia, claiming the condition should bar the Democrat from ever becoming president.
“Honestly, I’m all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president,” Trump said on Monday when speaking with reporters at the White House. “I think a president should not have learning disabilities.”
“I know it’s highly controversial to say such a horrible thing,” Trump added, claiming that when it came to the “low IQ” governor, whom he has dubbed “Gavin Newscum,” that “everything about him is dumb.”
During his insults, President Trump referred to Newsom as already being “the president of the United States,” a slip-up Newsom later mocked online.
“NO THANK YOU, WE BELIEVE IN FREE ELECTIONS!” the California leader wrote on X.
Bob agrees with me, and I agree with him.
As much as I hate him and as much as I would love to see a million peaceful citizens process down Pennsylvania Avenue carrying torches on their way to defenestrate him, or the young marine in dress uniform that salutes him as he leaves Marine One throw his life to the wind and punch him in the gut, or any similar satisfying scenario, it must not happen.
The democratic norms of the just still Shining City On The Hill must remain in place. We’re stuck with the vile prick for the next 3 years. Whether or not the Republicans lose control of either or both houses in the mid terms.
Impeachment? Could and should happen but conviction and removal is not guaranteed.
25th Amendment? There isn’t anyone on either side of the house with the balls to lobby the necessary votes and fight for it. This presidency is highlighting the hollowness of political leadership in general.
Natural death? Yes please.
Unless the last option happens he’s going nowhere.before 2028.
If he gets too embarrassing for even the MAGA Republicans to stomach and he shows no signs of quitting or dying naturally, they might deem it necessary to hurry things along.
Or having him assasinated might be just what’s needed to allow them to cancel the 2028 election.
I wonder what Vance has planned. Some commentators have pointed out how relatively scarce he’s been since Iran kicked off. Perhaps he is quietly gathering a post Trump core of support, and strategically distancing himself from the preposterous mountebank.
It’s scary to think in 2028 JDV could be presenting as a youthful version of Trump.
What democratic norms are they then? He’s ignored any that might get in his way, and the rest of the stuffed shirts in the Shining City have kow-towed like a bunch of juniors in the playground, trembling at the sight of the fat kid with the loud voice and a few burly sidekicks. It’s not a democracy, it’s Slytherin.
I know where you’re coming from. What I mean is that it would be dangerous folly to give up on or circumvent the ‘system’. It’s worked for 250 years. Admittedly without such a fucking nasty stupid maniac in the Oval Office until now, which is bending the superstructure like the World Trade Centres on 9/11. But then, fucking nasty maniacs were foreseen in the constitution. If only they’d use it and/or amend the fucking thing again.
Mind, all bets will be off if the Dems do badly in the Mid-Terms.
I think the American political system has been f***ed for a very long time and was ripe for the kind of exploitation of it that they’re currently getting.
Both parties are blatantly for sale to their donors and so are the vast majority of office-holders and candidates on either side.
To lighten the mood, I saw this on Twitter this morning:
What’s the difference between a war in Vietnam and a war in Iran?
Trump knew how to get out of a war in Iran.
out of a war in Vietnam, Shirley?
It’s looking likely that the Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives, and they could get the majority in a vote to impeach trump. But it then has to go to a trial in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds majority, and even if the Democrats win there it’s unlikely they could get enough republicans to join them – unless Trump goes completely ga ga.
And if he is impeached it means Vance becomes president, and some will wonder if that could be even worse.
I get the impression that Vance is being sidelined. Either that or he’s keeping a lower profile as the rest of them get more deranged and toxic.
If Trump were to die, be incapacitated or be successfully impeached while in office, Vance would automatically take the reins, but there are no cast iron guarantees he’d be the Republicans candidate in ’28.
I think Vance is walking a line where he can’t be accused of going against Trump but he is distancing himself sufficiently so he doesn’t get hurt in the implosion. I venture he is doing this with some great skill (although it’s obvious and he is as slimy as a snake in a bath full of massage oil).
I don’t think the mid-terms will take place.
He’ll claim there’s a state of emergency and postpone them.
I’m starting to think that too.
Me too.
All of this shite needs to be re-framed as being America’s fault, not Trump’s. I believe that the world media (including US) focuses on Trump, thus making it feel like he is an unstoppable force. I know that a lot of it IS his fault, but he’s been put there by the population at large. If not enough people voted against him, then that’s the population’s issue. They need to feel empowered to act.
So, this is America’s war in Iran, not Trump’s.
The Americans I’m acquainted with are all too aware that the world may have overlooked or forgiven Trump’s first term but not the second. It will take a long time before their reputation is restored, if at all.
To that point though, a lot of Americans were bamboozled into voting Trump – a chaotic, weak Democratic candidate (s), Trump’s bullish aggressive energy and pose of empathising with the underdog etc certainly carried him a long way as was his willingness to do or say anything to be elected, irrespective of truth. It’s like the Brexit campaign here – from big business to disenfranchised voters, Brexit was a great opportunity to piss off the right people and feel great about doing so.
Whether its the decade of nonsense we’ve endured since or the complete meltdown of US political system and global chaos Trump has generated, there’s a lot of buyers remorse out there now…
Did you see Gavin Newsom on ‘The Rest Is Politics’ recently?
There is a glimmer of hope.
I haven’t, will check it out thanks
I guess the framing of this as Trump’s war is designed in part to help peel voters away from him/the Republicans.
If you inexorably tie Trump and his previous voters together, and force them to defend his actions, it feels good in the moment but it probably increases the chances of further MAGA Presidents in future. I’d say anyone who has buyer’s remorse should be welcomed back to the light.
Plus, I don’t really believe we can hold voters responsible for everything their leaders do. Particularly when they do things they expressly said they wouldn’t while campaigning.
It’s Israel’s war, which Trump has been bamboozled into joining.
Netanyahu has been itching to go to war with Iran for a long time*, but he needed to get the USA involved and Obama, Trump (first time around) and Biden all refused to play. By flattering Trump’s gargantuan ego and greed this time around, Netanyahu has succeeded but the lack of support from the USA’s other allies and the American public has Trump rattled. Some buyers regret creeping in, I reckon.
Israel’s bombing of that Iranian gas field has displeased Trump, who no doubt had visions of grabbing Iran’s gas and oil for himself and his pals in the future.
*Netanyahu and his extremist pals need Israel to be fighting an eternal war against anyone who doesn’t like them.
…and now that he thinks he won’t be able to grab them, he’s announced he’ll ‘obliterate’ them in 48 hours if the Iranians don’t do something they are vanishingly unlikely to do. The man continues to dig a deeper and deeper hole for the rest of us to slide into.
@Mike_H – this is very much Netanyahu’s war and yet despite his personal unpopularity, I read today polling shows 90% of Israelis support it, which is just insane. Interesting analysis here reflecting on signs this is a war generated to protect Israel or Netanyahu.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/netanyahu-hopes-destroying-iranian-axis-of-evil-will-rehabilitate-his-image